If a race has no history, i... by Carter G. Woodson, an American Historian

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“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”

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Carter G. Woodson

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Name: Carter G. Woodson

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 19, 1875

Date of Death: Apr 3, 1950

Profession: Historian

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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

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Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

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