bell hooks, Carter G. Woodson, and African American Education

This is the "dialogue" between the two most prominent and abundant African-American scholars and intellectuals, Chung Hook and Carter Woodson. Although their work has been published for over 60 years, many of Woodson's questions in his current classic 'Black Education' are still important for today's African-American intellectuals. What does education mean "to traverse" the traditional boundary?

Carter · Woodson 's Black Education In his book' Black Education 'Carter · Woodson solves many of the problems that are already in existence and are already in existence in the African American community. Woodson believes that in the process of receiving education, blacks ignore the original reasons for education. - The importance of the Warren River and rivers in our lives is a tradition. After Sunday's church, my father, brother, and I went through the field to find crops and other things that built a house in my father's field. Then we drove to the river to see how high or low it was, or how much the river had bitten into the bad lands. As the river flows through the edge of the road, my father always pretends he will drive the car there directly.

This is the "dialogue" between the two most prominent and abundant African-American scholars and intellectuals, Chung Hook and Carter Woodson. Although their work has been published for over 60 years, many of Woodson's questions in his current classic 'Black Education' are still important for today's African-American intellectuals. What does education mean "to traverse" the traditional boundary?

Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in New Jersey, Virginia. He is the second African American who got a Ph.D. from Harvard University after W.E.B. Woodson, known as Dubois' father of the history of black people, dedicated his career to the history of African Americans and widely worked as a national institution to establish the Black History Month. He also writes many historical works including the book "Black Mistakes Education" published in 1933. He died in Washington, DC in 1950. Woodson worked on schools and organizations to participate in a special program to encourage studies of the history of African Americans that began with Black History Week in February 1926. The plan was expanded later and renamed Black History Month. (Woodson chose February as a celebration for a week to mark the birth month of the abolishists Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.