Uniteee Violence and Incarceration Prevention
In a powerful demonstration of how education can transform lives and society, Carter G. Woodson rose from the coal mines of West Virginia to become one of America's most significant historians and educators. Born in 1875 to formerly enslaved parents, Woodson would go on to become the second African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University and, more importantly, the visionary who institutionalized the study of Black history in America.
