The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

E. B. Grimke did not welcome Woodson's ideas.

A founder of Journal of Negro History Woodson has been cited as the father of black history. Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19 1875 – April 3 1950) was an African-American historian author journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American history.