"History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning."
American historian and educator widely known as the father of Black history. He founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and launched Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month. His scholarship advanced the formal study of African American history in U.S. education.