Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and this again is Negro History Week. This is the 100th

commemoration of Carter G. Woodson's vision for us to reclaim our memory. All of us, not just black folk,

because as he said, this is not Negro history. This is the Negro in history. And if you're going to

study history in the United States of America and across the globe, you cannot ignore the Negro.

We are central. We are central to all of the history. We are the reason why in many ways America was able to become a superpower.

We are the reason why Europe was able to become the superpower that it was.

We are the reason.

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So we have to study it.

And I'm here for it.

Okay.

So up next, let's get right into it because this is a long one.

As I mentioned yesterday, I pulled from episode 99 of In Class with Carr. And in part two today, Dr. Carr is taking us through

the actual origin story of Negro History Week. And it's going to take you on a journey that

will pass through everything from Omega Sci-Fi. Shout out to the Q's,

to Nanny Helen Burroughs, to Arturo Schaumburg. We're going to get all the way through it.

And I'm really excited for you to, again, take out your pen and pencil. He's going to drop a lot of

names and a lot of book titles. and a lot of history is woven into

this story of the origin of Negro History Week. So take a listen. Now, where did it come from?

Woodson, and there are, you know, there are several origin stories. And the thing about origin

stories is you can always make up a different one.

So in 1926, by 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, which had been founded in Chicago in 1915 by Woodson was over a decade old, obviously 11 years old.

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