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Carter G. Woodson, an educator and the author of “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” was named “Father of Black History” after founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and starting “Negro History Week” on Feb. 7, 1926, which would eventually become Black History Month in 1976. (Photo by the National Archives)

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