In Black America

In Black America Podcast: Four Who Made A Difference

February 22, 2012 11:03 am by: John Hanson

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Cheryl White, the first African American female jockey; the Honorable Glenda A. Hatchett; John Wooten, Co-Founder and Chairman Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation; and Robin Roberts, Co-host Good Morning America. We owe the celebration of Black History Month, and more importantly, the study of black history, to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the African American population-and when African Americans did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time. Woodson, always one to act on his ambitions, decided to take on the challenge of...
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