Historian Carter G. Woodson, who during the Harlem Renaissance founded Black History Week––later to become Black History Month––was a powerful visionary able to resist the constant denigration of his people’s humanity as represented by institutional racism and counter it with more positive affirmations made with groundbreaking research and publications. While twentieth century organizations such as the American Eugenics Society and the Ku Klux Klan devoted their resources to asserting the inferiority of African Americans, Woodson valiantly identified among his people examples of genius and innovation that revealed a very different story. For the full article by Aberjhani please click this link: Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (Part 1): Carter G. Woodson and Company - National African-American Art | Examiner.com