"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
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.