ASALH Founder Carter G. Woodson and OASC Founder Vassie D. Wright
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Our amazing team of part-time volunteers are committed to promoting the work of Dr. Woodson and Vassie Wright. others. We take our history and the ability to share that same seriously and promote the support of education in the process. We preserve Black history, we make history and we promote history. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information! Read More about our leadeship.
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Mrs. Wright and a group of Terminal Annex Postal Employees founded Our Authors Study Club, Inc. on February 14, 1945, to study the biographies of African American authors,
reading and reviewing their books, and learning the true history of African American people in the Diaspora. In June of 1945, Dr. Carter G. Woodson chartered the group to become his Association for the Study of African Life and History, Inc.
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The vision of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is to be the premier Black Heritage learned society with a strong network of national and international branches and partners whose diverse and inclusive membership will continue the Woodson legacy.
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