The Mis-education of the Negro was recently reissued with an introduction from Givens, who studies the history of American education and has written extensively on Black educators, including Carter G. As Woodson wrote, “There would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.” Combining pedagogical theory, history, and memoir, this was a book about the dangerously racist state of education, a book for 2023 as much as it was for 1933. The book argued that Black children learn to despise themselves-just as non-Black people learn to hate Black people-when Black history is not taught. And Woodson’s most important scholarly contribution, his 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro, highlighted the importance of teaching Black history. In 1926, he founded Negro History Week, which officially became Black History Month 50 years later. In response to these incidents, Woodson embarked on a new initiative to support educators and promote Negro history. Givens told me.Ī century ago, white segregationists were banning anti-racist books and “Negro studies” as well as punishing and threatening anti-racist educators all over Jim Crow America. “It’s striking how similar that feels and sounds to the contemporary moment,” the Harvard education historian Jarvis R. It forced the resignation of the school’s principal. They decreed that no book could be “instilled in the schools that is either klan or antiklan,” insinuating that Woodson’s Black history textbook was “antiklan." Upon learning of this textbook choice, White segregationists on the school board sprang immediately into action.
Woodson had written this “history of the United States as it has been influenced by the presence of the Negro” to supply the “need of schools long since desiring such a work,” as he wrote in the book’s preface.
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In 1925, teachers at the Negro Manual and Training High School of Muskogee, Oklahoma, made what they thought was an appropriate choice of textbook: The Negro in Our History, by the Harvard-trained Black historian Carter G.
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