The Mis-Education of The Negro
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Mis-education of the Negro. Trenton, NJ, New Jersey:
Africa World Press, 1990.
ISBN O-86543-171-X; paperback, $9.95
Carter Godwin Woodson born on December 19, 1875 was an African-American
historian, author, journalist and the one of the first scholars to study African-American
history. In February 1920 Dr. Woodson created the “Negro History Week”, and is
considered the forefather of Black History Month. The Mis-Education of the Negro is Dr.
Carter G. Woodson’s book originally published in 1933. The thesis of Dr. Woodson‘s
Mis-Education of the Negro is that African Americans of his time and in his day were
being culturally brainwashed, rather than educated, in the United States school system.
This brainwashing, he claimed caused African Americans to become very dependent and
