Dr. Woodson
... that they had made in their valuable lives. Carter was not capable of going to school during much of his young life because he had to help out on the farm, so that he could bring money home to help support his family. Carter was a hard working man physically, but he wanted to a hard worker mentally so he and his brother Robert Henry moved to Huntington, West Virginia, where they hoped to attend the Douglass High School so that they can get a decent education and try to get a job however; Carter was forced to earn his living as a miner in Fayette County coal fields and was able to offer only a few months each year to his education. In late 1800’s, Carter successfully entered Douglass High School, where he received his very first diploma less than two years. After finishing High School he later attended Berea College in Kentucky and graduated with honors. Carter was not even close to be done with his education, he also received is third diploma from the University of Chicago. Back1908, he attended Sorbonne University in Paris making French his second language of communication. He later than received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1912, becomes only the second African-American to earn a degree. Woodson taught briefly and held educational administrative posts in the Philippines, at Howard University where he was Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, and also in West Virginia State College. For many years Dr. Woodson wanted to come up with different ways to have the future remember their past history and also have them know who there for father was and what they have done to make African-American live a free life. In 1915, Dr. Woodson and several other friends in Chicago helped established an organization for the study of Negro life and its history. The following year in 1916 the same Journal of Negro History appeared, as one of the oldest learned journals in the United States of America. Woodson’s thought of completions was not yet done, in 1926, he developed Negro History Week so that African can celebrate the greatness of the work that there for fathers had made, Dr. Woodson often said “that he hoped the time would come when Negro History Week would be unnecessary” and “when all Americans would willingly recognize the contributions of Black Americans as a legitimate and integral part of the h...