Thursday 22 November 2012

Black and Silver Wallpaper

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Black and  Silver Wallpaper Biography
(1875-1950), historian. Born in New Canton, Virginia, Woodson was the only black American born of slave parents to earn a Ph.D. in history. One of nine children of James Henry and Anne Eliza Woodson, the future historian worked on the family farm as a small child and as an agricultural day laborer in his teens. The family moved to West Virginia, where, at the age of twenty, Woodson enrolled in Frederick Douglass High School and completed four years of course work in two years. He then enrolled in Berea College and graduated in 1903, one year before Kentucky enacted the Day Law, which prohibited interracial education. In 1907 Woodson enrolled as a full-time student at the University of Chicago and earned another bachelor's degree as well as a master's in history; his thesis concerned French diplomatic policy toward Germany in the eighteenth century. He earned a Ph.D. in American history at Harvard University in 1912, completing a dissertation on the secession movement in western Virginia. He taught high school in Washington, D.C., and later served as a dean at Howard University and West Virginia State College.
Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and the following year began publishing the Journal of Negro History. Through the Journal Woodson challenged the racist bias of mainstream studies of slavery, Reconstruction, and African history. The association functioned as a clearinghouse and information bureau, providing research assistance in black history to scholars and the public. The annual celebration of Negro History Week, begun in 1926, was among Woodson's most important achievements. During his lifetime the idea, which attracted whites as well as blacks, spread to South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Philippines, and the Virgin Islands. In 1937 Woodson also began publishing the Negro History Bulletin, which was directed at black schoolchildren.
With the publication of his first book, The Education of the Negro prior to 1861, Woodson embarked on a scholarly career that, judged by output alone, few could match. Between 1915 and 1947, when the ninth edition of The Negro in Our History, appeared, he published four monographs, five textbooks, five edited collections of source materials, and thirteen articles, and collaborated on five sociological studies. The major objective of his research was to correct the racist bias implicit in the work of most white scholars of the time. Woodson investigated all aspects of the black experience in the United States from the colonial period through the 1920s, as well as that of blacks in the West Indies, South America, and Africa. Woodson pioneered in writing social history using new sources and methods. He moved away from interpreting blacks solely as victims of white oppression and racism, viewing them instead as major actors in American history. In recognition of his work the NAACP awarded Woodson its highest award, the Springarn Medal, in 1926.

Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper
Black and  Silver Wallpaper

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