Dr. Woodson was a member of the Niagara Movement and a regular columnist for Marcus Garvey's weekly publication--the Negro World. He was the founder, in Chicago in 1915, of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In the same year, he founded the Journal of Negro History—a publication still in existence. As a contributing writer for The Journal of Negro History, Woodson wrote more than a hundred articles and 125 book reviews.

    Carter Godwin Woodson was the founder of Associated publishers, founder and editor of the Negro History Bulletin, and the author of more than thirty books. Probably Woodson’s best-known book is The Mis-Education of the Negro, originally published in 1933 and still relevant today.