Carter G. Woodson
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two-bit Joe
N 38° 24.962 W 082° 25.785
17S E 375181 N 4252944
Carter G. Woodson, Huntington, WV
Waymark Code: WM19CQ
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2007
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Historian, author, educator & founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life & History (1915), Journal of Negro History (1916) and Negro History Week (1926), later expanded to Black History Month. A graduate and later principal of Douglass H.S., Huntington, a dean at West Virginia State, and second African American to earn Harvard Ph.D. (1912). Born Dec. 19, 1875; died, April 3, 1950.
Marker Title: Carter G. Woodson
Marker Location: Hal Greer Boulevard and 9th Avenue, Huntington
County or Independent City: Cabell
Marker Program Sponsor: Carter G. Woodson Foundation / WV Celebration 2000 – West Virginia Division of Archives and History 2003
Marker Number: Not listed
Web Site: Not listed
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