"The Mis-Education of the Negro" originally published in 1933 by Dr.
He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themse.
This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part.
Woodson\'s book is that African Americans of his time were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools.
The thesis of Dr.
Carter Godwin Woodson, is arguably his greatest book. "The Mis-Education of the Negro" originally published in 1933 by Dr