Welcome to HeruPublishing.com We are proud to introduce Carter G. Woodson's "The Miseducation of the Negro" on an audio disc collection. The Miseducation of the Negro, 1st published in 1933, illustrates various behavioral patterns relating to how Black Americans cope with prejudice, ignorance and intolerance while going about their everyday lives. The profoundly personable, emotional, and political Dr. Woodson also speaks on the social conditions that influence Black Americans’ position in society.

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Carter G. Woodson
(1875-1950)
Dr. Woodson was born December 19th, 1875 in New Canton, West Virginia. His parents were former slaves and very poor. Woodson spent much of his early years working in coal mines to help support his family. He started high school at age twenty. Dr. Woodson completed a four year curriculum in less than two years at Douglass High School in Huntington, West Virginia where he became a teacher and ultimately, the principal. He attended at some time Berea College in Kentucky, yet received his Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of Chicago. He was the second black to graduate from Harvard with a Doctorate, second to W.E.B.Du Bois. He was a member of the Niagara Movement, which led to the founding of the NAACP. He worked with such greats as W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and A. Philip Randolph. Dr. Woodson died in 1950 while working on a six volume Encyclopedia Africana. Dr. Woodson became a distinguished author, editor, publisher, and historian who strongly believed that Black History (which others have so diligently tried to erase) is a firm foundation for Black America to build on in order to become productive citizens of our society.