As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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.