The library, home to the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, will turn fifty years old in December.

King’s quote refers to the man of the hour, known as the father of Black History: Carter Godwin Woodson. Born in 1875 in coal-mining West Virginia, Woodson pulled himself up from the shadow of ...

Beginning as “Negro History Week” in 1926, Black History Month was created by Carter Godwin Woodson, the first African ...