The title of Lauryn's Hill 1998 debut solo album "The miseducation of Lauryn hill" was inspired by Carter G Woodsons 1933 book "The miseducation of the Negro". #BlackHistoryMonth#Day1
"you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America" - Dr. Carter G Woodson
"The education of any people should begin with the people themselves, but Negroes thus trained have been dreaming about the ancients of Europe and about those who have tried to imitate them."- Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
"Negroes were in Egypt throughout its history and figured in its development" - Dr. Carter G Woodson
"Egypt first felt the force of foreign contacts from the East. The country was originally settled by Negroid people as excavations clearly show. These people developed from clusters of villages in the Nile valley until the nation attained a position of stability under King Menes"
"we should give equally
as much attention to the internal African kingdoms, the
Songhay empire, and Ethiopia, which through Egypt
decidedly influenced the civilization of the
Mediterranean world" - Dr. Carter G Woodson
"Students were not
told that ancient Africans of the interior knew sufficient science to concoct poisons for arrowheads, to
mix durable colors for paintings, to extract metals from
nature and refine them for development in the industrial
arts." - Dr. Carter G Woodson
"The Negro can be proud of his past only by
approaching it scientifically himself and giving his own story to the world." - Dr. Carter G Woodson #BlackHistoryMonth#Day1
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"the left bank of the Niger developed heroic leaders. Operating from Kangaba, sometimes called Kanga, the capital of Manding, they made for themselves a place in history among the greatest rulers of their day" #BlackHistoryMonth#Day2
"This city has been the center of the Malinké, or Mandingo people...For several hundred years this city was the capital of one of the greatest empires ever developed in Africa and one of the most considerable that ever existed in the history of man" - Dr. Carter G Woodson
"The first time the outside world ever had a glimpse of this empire was about 1050, when one of its rulers, converted to Islam, made a pious pilgrimage to Mecca to bow at the tomb of the Prophet." - Dr. Carter G Woodson
In 1991 he started a rap group and a program called "The underground railroad", seeking to create a alternative way out of the streets for young Black men.
Tupac 1991 :
"The concept behind this is the same concept behind Harriet Tubman, to get my brothers who might be into drug dealing or whatever it is that’s illegal or who are disenfranchised by today’s society-I want to get them back by turning them onto music."
Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson founded Negro history week in 1926, to honor & teach the hidden contributions of African descendants to human history, often overlooked in Eurocentric academia. He dedicated his life to preserve those missing pages of our history #BlackHistoryMonth#Day1
Dr. Carter G Woodson was the author of several books, dealing with medieval and modern Black history. In his book "African heroes and heroines" he speaks on the history of West African civilizations, one of the ancestral homelands of African Americans.
"The Western African and Sudanese kingdoms which the Mohammedans found on reaching the interior and the West Coast.... The first to be noticed was Kumbi, called Ghana by the Arabs.” - African heroes and heroines by Dr. Carter G Woodson