 Picture Courtesy of Joseph K. Landis
 Picture Courtesy of Joseph K. Landis
Historian, author, educator & founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life & History (1915), Journal of Negro History (1916) and Negro History Week (1926), later expanded to Black History Month. A graduate and later principal of Douglass H.S., Huntington, a dean at West Virginia State, and second African American to earn Harvard Ph.D. (1912). Born Dec. 19, 1875; died, April 3, 1950.
Hal Greer Boulevard and 9th Avenue, Huntington Cabell County West Virginia
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