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Carter was born in New Canton,Virgina
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The Woodsons moved to Fayette County, West Virginia, where his father worked in railroad construction, and where he himself found work as a coal miner.
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As a teenager he worked as an agricultural day laborer.
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Woodson graduated from Berea in 1903, just a year before Kentucky passed the "Day Law," prohibiting interracial education.
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After college, Woodson taught at Frederick Douglass High School in West Virginia.
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After college, Woodson taught at Frederick Douglass High School in West Virginia.
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His difference of opinion with Grimké, who wanted a more conservative course, contributed to Woodson's ending his affiliation with the NAACP.
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He retired from teaching in 1922 and spent the remainder of his life rescuing, researching, and writing about the African American experience. He earned the title of Father of Black History.
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He died on April 3, 1950, in Washington, D.C.
