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Carter G. Woodson, White Philanthropy and Negro Historiography.

TODAY AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY is a legitimate and recognized area of study. Indeed, the recent proliferation of excellent, prize winning books attests to the vitality and excitment abounding in this field of American History. In October, 1983, the American Historical Association sponsored a major state-of-the-art conference on the Study and Teaching of Afro-American History, providing even further testimony to the maturation of this sub-specialty within American History. This was not always the case. Around the turn of the century few American historians acknowledged that AfroAmericans had a history, or at least one worth investigating. Much of the credit for the rise of Negro History belongs to one man. Carter Goodwin Woodson was born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia. He earned a B.A. degree (1907) and an M.A. degree (1908) from the University of Chicago and subsequently received a Ph.D. degree in American History (1912) from Harvard University, under the direction of Edward Channing, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. Whereas Woodson's academic credentials ostensibly qualified him for "inside" status, racial discrimination relegated him to the "outside" or periphery of the historical profession. Unable to secure an appointment at any of the leading American institutions, Woodson taught French, Spanish, English, and History, and eventually became principal of the all-black Armstrong Manual Training High School in Washington, D.C. Between 1919 and 1922, Woodson served brief tenures as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts both at Howard University and at the West Virginia State College. By 1922