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Abilene, Texas, March 15, 1957, at the Carter G. Woodson Junior-Senior High School. About 350 teachers were in attendance during meeting. The Convention address was deliv- ered by Dr. J. L. Patton, Principal, Booker T. ... Special features of the Friday ses- sions included music by the Woodson High School Concert Band and Choir, and Musical selections by the Woodson Elementary School Chorus under the direction of Miss Delores Roberts. James L. ... G. Hilliard, Principal of the Emmett Scott High School, Tyler and President of TSAT. West Texas District The West Texas District Teachers Association Convention was held in MAY-JUNE, 1957 L. M.

Carney ... Mr. W. T. Carter Mrs. M. B. Cheatham .. Mz. L. T Celeman - Mrs. W. E. Cooke Mr. H. S. Crawford Miss' B. L. Fields - Mr. C. J. Foster Mr. Harry R. Gadsden . Mrs. Hattie G. Gadsden . Mrs. E. A. Green Mrs. B. A. Harrington Mr. E. W. ... G. W. Jackson M ReEWo S Jamnes & - Mrzs. O. B. L. Jones Mrs. G. H. Kent My B H- Kersey: = MTs ST B e SR Mr. S. G. Madden .. Mrs. M. W. Payne M " Georges Petersony s Jrfaiiess Miss D. V. Quarles Mr. J. R. Ransome .. Mr: |G "H" Reid DECEMBER 1947 Mrs. ... Louise Carter Mrs. Julia Clark ... Miss L. E. Forbes .. Mrs. Ruth Forbes ... Miss A. M. Freeman ... Miss H. L. Goodman . Mr. R. L. Gordon Mrs. B. G. Gormandy . Mrs. E. P. Harriston ... Mrs. Malinda Hoggard .. Miss Hazel Humphries .. Mrs. H. M.

Carter G. Woodson H. S. (Hopewell) Wythe County Teachers Association.. Wytheville Training School Wise County Teachers Mrs. Helen Bannister Mrs. R. G. Boatwright . Mrs. Nora Brice Mrs. Stella Bryant Rev. J. W. Cain Mr. and Mrs. ... Rex Carnes Reverend Carr Reverend O. C. Chair Mrs. W. W. Chambliss . Reverend B. S. Giles . Mr. Jake Hill Mrs. Eleanor Johnson Mrs. N. J. S. McDonald Mrs. McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moore .. Mrs. Venda Morris Mrs. Thelma Norris - Mrs. ... Bertha Scott Reverend G. D. Scott . Mr. G H. Shorter = Mrs. Ida Spears Mrs. Maude Spears Mrs. Thelma Taylor . Mrs. Grace Warren Miss Carolyn Witten ...

Woodson, Carter G. and Wesley, Charles - H., “Negro Makers of History,” Washing- ton, D.C: The Associated Publishers, 1958, 5th Edition. Page Seventeen ... Holger G. Ericsson—Class 1963 g O Ot B 00 N C. US. Air Force Academy 1. Charles Vernon Bush—Class 1963 2. Issaac S. Payne, IV—Class 1963 3. Roger Sims—Class 1963 XI. Active Duty Cross Winners Distinguished Flying 1. Major General B. O. ... Later, he was killed in action when the aircraft carrier Liscome Bay was lost in the Pacific. I. Hugh Mulzac became America’s first Negro Captain. He was Captain of the Liberty Ship S.S. Booker T. Washington. J.

Koontz Superintendent of Schools, accepted the Carter G. Woodson Award on behalf of his school system, The Woodson Award is given in honor of the co-founder of the Association of Negro Life and History. Two special citations will be given to Dr.

The Journal, founded in 1916 by the late Carter G. Woodson, is now edited by Dr. Wil- liam M. Brewer of the Washington Public Schools. Dr. Wesley announced that two appointemets had been made to infuse a new vision into the association. Albert N. D. ... Felton G. Clark has 3,677 students enrolled. Like his great father, J. S. Clark, the present head of Southe ,s University knows that people are still people Despite the fact that 32 Ph.D. professors weps taking their seats, Dr. Felton G. ... Carter, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Vivian J. Cook, Baltimore, Md.; Wilhelmina M. Crosson, Sedalia, N. C.; Dr. Merle R. Eppse, Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Lorenzo J. Greene, Jefferson City, Mo.; Harvey C. Jackson, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. R.

Mitchell, William G. Moore, Josephine G. Morris, Maceo W. Nelson, Ruth S. Norman, Mary L. Williams, C. A. Preston, D. D. Brown, Thelma S. Carter, I. W. Campbell, Nina H. Curry, Eathel E. Greene, Myrtle 1. Gravely J. A. Gough, Mildred M. Huskins, M. ... BROOKE COUNTY—Beatrice Jefferson, Phillp Johnson, Jr., Mildred Kent, J € Pruman k.o A Woods, Richard Woodard, Sebastian Owens. CABELL COUNTY—Irene Miller Ambrose, C. K. Barnett, Mae V. Brown, Effie B. Carter, Z. L. ... Wood, Thelma Woodson, Henrietta MeCollum, Jessie Stocks, Loris A. Wash- ington. GREENBRIER COUNTY—Charles S. Arter, Mrs. A. M. Banks, Robert A. Banks, Helen G. Boyd, A. R. Branche, Mary J. Cabell, Margaret R. Coleman, Ear] C. Clay, Charles B.

Carter G. Woodson, Director of the As- sociation for the Study of Negro Life and His- tory; “The Heritage of the Negro” 3. Prof. Benjamin J. Quarles, Dillard Univers- ity, “Frederick Douglass and the Woman’s Rights Movement” 4. Prof. ... Volume I, Number 1 g just off the press. J. W. Studebaker, Commis- sioner of HMducation of the United States, is chair- man of this radio commi’tee.

Woodson, J. A. Kinney, Maude Clark, Minnie Cooper, Josephine Moore, Florence Gordon, Virginia Cooley, Flora Brooks, Thelma Reason, Stella Minor, Lena Rice, Hazel Robinson, Della L. Brown, Laurinda E. Brown, James S. Carper, Katherine L. ... Carter, Mrs. H. Preston Jones, Rosanna McClanzhan, Rocenia Vaughn, Virginia Thompson. MERCER COUNTY—Mamie Anthony, William Chapell, Virginia R. Clark, C. C. Cheatham, Pansy Crawley, Richard A. Brown, G. Gertrude DeBerry, Caire DeCousins, N. J. ... Carter, S. E. Cobb, Leonard Davis, Fora R. Blliott, Clara Gilbert, Pearl W. Gi'l Annie B. Harris, India W. Harris, Eva L. Fat h, Elaine Henderson, Roscoe Henderson, Irene Hizdon, Kistler Hise, Marie H.

Standing are James Cary, principal of the Essex County High School, Tappahannock; and G. Frank Harris, principal of the Carter G. Woodson High Schocl, Dillwyn. DANYVILLE’S LANGSTON HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVES FTA CHARTER—MTrs. Rosena J. ... Edna Holmes attended a work- shop during the summer on ‘“child care and development” at Virginia State College in Petersburg . . . . Miss Alma T. ... were six candidates for Sectional and National Future Farmers of America, Inc.; Establishment in Farming Awards; the sectional public speaker winner, Larry Jones of Buckingham; and the live- stock judging team from Essex County composed of Charlie Carter

Walter White and Carter G. Woodson point with great pride to the steady advancement of the Asociation. They go about the coun- try singing its praises. The Negro teachers of Virginia look upon their state organization with a feel- mg of endearment. ... \g IA PaGE 48 VIRGINIA EpucAaTioN BULLETIN ... Carter L. A. Reid Secretary-Treasurer Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation IN YOUR AMERICAN Your regular, news packed, up-to-the« minute Afro American with fresh new pictures and storlesremainsunchanged.

Carper, Washington School; Lucy Fontaine, McKinney School; Dr. ... Williams, Union School; Elizabeth White, Logan; Ruth Walker, Logan; Julia G. ... Rose Butler Brown, West Virginia State College 3:00-4:00—Room No. 2—“The Role of the Teacher in the Community”—Charles G. Thompson, Jones Street School; Horace McCarthy, Laurel Grove School; E. C. Smith, Asst. Supt.

G. ... Grange project is a co-operative of farmers which, under the direction of the Extension Service and other agencies has made much progress in co-operation which has cheapened costs and improved the sale of farm products. ) TWO BOOKS ON NEGRO HISTORY, by Carter ... Woodson, were recently approved for use in the Phila- delphia public schools by that school board.

Carter G. Woodson, Director, presided at the session. Dr. Charles H. Wesley, President of Wilberforce University, and authority in the field of Negro History, delivered the keynote address. The Domestic Life And Accident Insurance Co.

Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro History. From 1933 to 1938 he was head of the Depart- ment of History at Aalanta University.

Carter G. Woodson of Washington, D. C., Dr. Anthony ]. Major of Weirton, West Virginia; Mr. Harvey C. Russell, Louisville; Kentucky; Mrs. Hattie Haydon McElory and Miss Jennie L.

Carter G. Woodson, the office is flooded with requests for suggestion for the observance of Negro History Week. ... Woodson suggests that we ‘“teach youth history and send them out to inform impostors on the real issue as shown by the study of definite history. These will finally bring an enlightened leadership of real merits and unselfish service?”

Carter G. Woodson was the first of his race to give up the classroom and study religiously to mold and weld the missing link with the rest of the chain of events. ... Woodson, like Williams and other historians, wrote because he believed it would elevate the posi- tion of his race in American society by re-educating both Caucasians and Negroes to a greater appreciation of race, and through inspiring the latter to greater

In reference to Colonization in Africa one author wonders “why Paul Cuffe, after taking the first boatload of free Negroes to Africa, came to doubt 1 Carter G. ... Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration, Washington, 1918, p. 20. 2 Tbid, p. 22. whether colonization was the solution for the Negro in the United States.”? After the Liberia settlement failed Negroes were sent to the Northwest in great numbers. ... Logan, “Some New Interpretations of the Colo- nization Movement,” Phylon, (Atlanta, 1943), p. 332. 4 Woodson, op. cit., pp. 35-36. 5 Loc. cit. 6 Gunnar Myrdal, American Dilemma, New York, 1944, pp. 182-201. 7 United States Census, Negroes in the United

Carter G. Woodson and dedicated to the dissemination of information about Negroes and Negro life. ... Woodson, who earned his doctorate at Harvard. Present officers include, as Asso- ciation President—Dr. Charles H. Wesley, eminent historian of Wil- berforce, Ohio; First Vice-Presi- dent, Dr. H.

It is not the pur- pose of the writer to submit arguments in support of such a stand, but the state- ments of Carter G. Woodson always come to mind when some one questions such teaching materials. ... If the admini- strator will take care to pass to the proper persons all of the materials pertaining to the teaching of African history which may come his way, he will have played his role very well. ... Woodson, when discussing the subject of African history, often re- peated a proverb from African lore: “Know thyself better than he who speaks of thee. Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.”

Little children will enjoy the pictures and they will be en- tertained by the animal tales as read to them. ’ Woodson, Carter G. African Myths Togeth- er With Proverbs. Washington, D. C. Associated Publishers, 1928. Dr. ... White, Amos J. and White, Louella G. Davis in Bantuland: An Account of Missionary Experiences and Observa- tions In South Africa. Boston, Christo- pher Publishing House, 1953.

This statement is eminently true of this association in that Carter G. Woodson is the founder and soul of the organization and he has lead the movement for the study of the Negro in the schools. ... Woodson and his staff have begun the . publication of a very useful magazine for elemen- tary and high school use—the Negro History Bul- letin.

Carter G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (1919; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1968), 2. 7. Ullin W. ... Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, 179. 11. Betty Porter, ‘‘The History of Negro Education in Louisiana’’ (Master’s thesis, Louisiana State University, 1938), 2; Grace E.

G. Woodson Elementary School, No. Little Rock Indiana Street School, Pine Bluff Jones High School, No. Little Rock New Hope High School, Mt. Holly Armorel Jr. High School, Armorel Townsend Pork Jr. ... High School, Pine Bluff Carver Elementary School, No. ... Christophe Frank Fisher G. J. Wade Mrs. E. L. Hamilton A. Russell C. L. Abrams- 4 C. S, Smith-21 Mrs. J. D. Hunter W I @heeney 1SS Hunter Mrs. Geneva Harraway M. L. Brantley R 'H. .Lovette _____________________________________________ S, B.

The Journal, founded in 1916 by the late Carter G. Woodson, is now edited by Dr. William M. Brewer of the Washington Public Schools. Dr. Wesley announced that two ap- pointments had been made to infuse a new vision into the association. Al- bert N. ... Carter, Chicago, I1l.; Mys. Vivian J. Cook, Baltimore, Md.; Wilhelmina M. Crosson, Sedalia, N. C.; Dr. Merle R. Eppse, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Lorenzo [, Greene, Jeffer son City, Mo.; Harvey C. Jackson, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. R.

Nathaniel Dett, George Washington Carver, Howard Thurman, Kelly Miller, Carter G. Wood- son, Paul Robeson, Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Depriest, Mrs. Mary M. Bethune, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Arthur ‘W. Mitch- ell, J. B. ... If the Negro is to be properly and wholly edu- cated, I think it is imperative that he should have the opportunity to study and learn the history of his race. ... Woods, Menifee. Mrs. Neva McKindra, Springfleid. - Mrs. Sarah Clark, Morrilton. Mrs. O. J. Coleman, Center Ridge. Mrs, V. Simon, Russellville. Mrs. H. Pierce, Dardanelle, Mrs. L. B. Rush, Center- Ridge. Mrs. Suetah Perry. Mrs.

The society will, from time to time, sponsor the appearance at the college of such scholars and educa- tors as Messrs, Carter G. Woodson, James Weldon Johnson, Benjamin G. Brawley, Charles Johnson, William Stanley Braith- ‘waite, Henry Wallace, E.

Ozy Cheatham, Principal of Carter G. Woodson Elementary School will attend the National Elementary Principals’ Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24-27, 1957. N. P. ... G. Stanford, Wynne 5 «..H. M, Scott, Fordyce Mrs. Sarah B Williams, McGehee el It Mrs. L. B. Taylor, Wilmar ...... Mrs. R. G. Lambert, Sheridan Hempstead .. .vG S. Williamson, Washington Howard ... T. E. Patterson, Nashville Hot Springs ......... ... G. M Fioyd (1958) Little Rock Hymon Kirg (1988) ™ 7 cuiiss ... Morrilton Mrs. C. B. White (192C .Bl, theville E. L.

94 MISSISSIPPI EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL ' MISSISSIPPI EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL our History” by Carter G. Woodson, or “Short 11. Dr. Jane McAllister, a native of History of the American Negro” by B. G. Brawley. sippi, has come to Mississippi Negro Traing 10. ... Harper became Assistant ‘;g‘_" 2 g- 5 _erman 3, February, 1937; (9) “Mary McLeod Bethune—A 1etary for service among Negro Youth of Missis Negro Angel,” a biography, Literary Digest, sippi, September 1, 1941. “'! ... Hubert is president of the State and that we are free; free to chose our fice “3. g get started on preparations.

Ozy Cheatham, Principal of Carter G. Woodson Elementary School will attend the National Elementary Principals’ Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24-27, 1957. N. P. ... G. Stanford, Wynne 5 «..H. M, Scott, Fordyce Mrs. Sarah B Williams, McGehee el Tt Mrs. L. B. Taylor, Wilmar ...... Mrs. R. G. Lambert, Sheridan Hempstead .. .vG S. Williamson, Washington Howard ... T. E. Patterson, Nashville Hot Springs ........ ... G. M Fioyd (1958) Little Rock Hymon Kirg (1988) ™ 7 caiiss ... Morrilton Mrs. C. B. White (192C .Bl, theville E. L.

Carter| G. Woodson i ~ Association for the Study of Negro Life and History TRIBUTES— Mrs, Ruth G. ... Harold Haynes oo I School Mfa,g,g Club REMARKS___.“_L__‘;__;‘______-_;___fl__,LL_'__’i_j-_;p-,,j__fi_f‘_.fi_."_i.i,,_f.'._f. el & Willaiang First Assistant Supermtendent of Schools g 5 I 1R O GO NSRS USRI e Mr. Charles Lofton 4. ... SWEET POTATOES FRENCH STRING BEANS HOT ROLLS LETTUCE SALAD WITH ROQUEFORT CHEESE DRESSING ICE CREAM CAKE COFFEE SALTED NUTS e Twenty-fifth Anniversary Dinner 9 rogram Prog INVOEATION, [l e G Rev. George O.

D Senter (ETTA), Knoxville Carter G. Woodson, authority in of THE BROADCSTER—MRS. MABEL BELL 2 4 o : 5 E. P. CaruTHERS, Johnson City the field of the hlStOI‘y Of the SiRI(l)é)xs, A. and I. ... Fort 5 Vol. 32 October, 1959 No. 1 Atethe dHelime oo s e b sl p b m g et - BEEming st g 6 | WEOTP Convention Comments. = . 0.6 . G. W. ... SENTER, Knoxville OUR COVER Executive Secretary—G. W. Brooks, Burt A. L. Rosinson, Lexington i High School, Clarksville Mgs. VirciNiIA M. PAYNE (MTTA), Nashville QOur cover this month is Dr. T. R.