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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe google doodle today honours carter g. woodson, the father of black history
Google Doodle: How Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history, is teaching us still
By Michael Cavna February 1 at 8:30 AM Email the author
WITHOUT THE work of Carter G. Woodson, Google would probably not be kicking off Black History Month on Thursday, let alone with its home-page image of Woodson himself. Woodson is historic because he believed in the illuminating power of the historic. He knew that tradition must be rightly learned before it can be valued, and that even then, society might try to devalue you and push you to the back of historys warehouse.
As a real-world example of such undervaluation, consider the historic office-home of Woodson in Washington, at 1538 Ninth St. NW just blocks from the White House as well as The Washington Post. On The Posts site, you can even see rare footage of Woodson a.k.a. the father of black history sitting at his desk long ago in his Ninth Street home, looking much as he does in Thursdays Google Doodle.
Yet in a city chockablock with burnished monuments, Woodsons Washington home was allowed to fall into a dilapidated state. As the president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History wrote in a letter to The Post in the summer, Woodsons D.C. home was among 30 memorials honoring the African American experience that were subject to the ravages of deferred maintenance. (That letter championed the bipartisan National Park Service Act to secure repair funding.)
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The former office-home of author-historian Carter G. Woodson, a National Historic Landmark at 1538 Ninth Street NW in Washington. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post)
Consider that this home was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and that it was placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservations list of endangered properties 17 years ago.
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the google doodle today honours carter g. woodson, the father of black history (Original Post)
niyad
Feb 2018
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(38,325 posts)1. It's shameful how our nation can't or won't restore this landmark.
It's a negligible cost in comparison to some utterly useless defense industry spending.
And how much does it cost to fly Trump and his entourage to Florida and back?
niyad
(113,532 posts)2. or to keep mel in a dc hotel.