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How did Woodson’s experience abroad in the Philippines change his perspective on the importance of Black History?

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Carter G. Woodson went to the Philippines in 1903 to help establish a new school system there (The first group to do this traveled aboard the U.S.S. Thomas and were therefore known as Thomasites.) Woodson, a Black educator, saw how the books and subjects that Filipino kids were being taught were completely outside of their own circumstances, their own story. The Filipinos’ lives and landscapes were excluded from the books and curriculum written and designed by white Americans.

During this profound experience, he was crafting his ideas about the education of Black folks in the continental United States, which he would dedicate his life to in the following years, holding posts like the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Howard.

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