Woodson explained the idea behind the celebration. “It is not so much a Negro History Week as it is a History Week,” he wrote, according to the ASALH. “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in History. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hatred and religious prejudice.”
I like his explanation. Too bad it’s been corrupted.
Woodson was a great scholar and American. DuBois was a good scholar but fell under the control of his Communist Party wife and became a Soviet and Party propaganda stooge. The third person was a good scientist as I recall.