149 years ago today, a man named Carter Godwin Woodson was born in New Canton, Virginia, to Anna Eliza Riddle Woodson and James Woodson, both former slaves.

“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”
– The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson, 1933

Image: Carter Woodson, young graduate

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