| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. By Pero Gaglo Dagbovie. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xviii, 258 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03190-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07435-6.)
With The Early Black History Movement, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie contributes benchmark research to U.S. historiography in two ways: first, he reinstates Carter G. Woodson as an "iconoclast" figure in black thought; and second, he offers a seminal examination of Lorenzo Johnston Greene, an understudied but exemplary scholar-activist-educator. The book is divided into two sections: one on Woodson, one on Greene—each containing four chapters. The conclusion outlines major similarities and differences of the two scholars' work. Throughout the book, Dagbovie foregrounds the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) and Lincoln University in Missouri.	1
In his treatment of Woodson (1875–1950), Dagbovie critiques existing interpretations of Woodson's "intricate" personality, then constructs an original and definitive intellectual portrait from both intimate and public sources (p. xii). Dagbovie argues that scholars strategically reference Mis-education of the Negro (1933), but "sidestep" Woodson's legacy due to enduring derision by W. E. B. Du Bois and others (p. 43). Dagbovie's intellectual reclamation complements the current effort of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History to physically restore Woodson's home in Washington, D.C.	. . .

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