We owe the celebration of Black History Month, and more importantly, the study of black history, to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population-and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time.

To learn more about the American Bible Society's in African American select from the topics below:

• Africans in the Bible

• African American Christians

• Explore African American Heritage with Young and Old

• The Alleged Curse on Ham

• The Presence of Blacks in Biblical Antiquity