Known as “the Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson was a ... to serve as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. As the nation’s first professionally trained historian of ...

Carter G. Woodson, who Encylopedia Virginia describes ... Within the next several years, he earned both his high school ...

Noted Black scholar and historian Carter G ... self-taught in most school subjects, and entered high school at the age of 20, graduating in only two years. Woodson would work as a teacher and ...