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Dr. Carter G. Woodson was the son of former African slaves James and Eliza Riddle Woodson. He earned his master’s degree at the University of Chicago in 1908 and received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1912. During one of his lectures, he was surprised to hear that the Negro has no history. Instead of being angry Dr. Woodson set in motion what is now called Black History month. Many of the nineteenth-century anthologies of Africa are used as books to supplement the study of European and the New World history. The anthologies approach is from a European perspective that endorses their crusades and occupation of the continent. Today Africa is regarded as the cradle of civilization, the original birthplace of societies, ancient
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