The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, today called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, is a prominent nonprofit organization that Carter G. Woodson founded in 1915. The purpose of the Association is to promote the study of Black history and culture; it’s best known for creating and popularizing Black History Month.
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Quotes in The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Chapter 14
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To educate the Negro we must find out exactly what his background is, what he is today, what his possibilities are, and how to begin with him as he is and make him a better individual of the kind that he is. Instead of cramming the Negro’s mind with what others have shown that they can do, we should develop his latent powers that he may perform in society a part of which others are not capable.
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The Negro can be made proud of his past only by approaching it scientifically himself and giving his own story to the world. What others have written about the Negro during the last three centuries has been mainly for the purpose of bringing him where he is today and holding him there.
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Chapter 18: The Study of the Negro
Woodson’s Association for the Study of Negro Life and History is committed to promoting the study of Black history, which the Association believes to be...
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According to Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History , the solution to “the race problem” is critical thinking, which can help each person...
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