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Omope Carter Daboiku is president of the Paul Laurence Dunbar chapter of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
This month at WYSO, we’ve been looking at the history of Black History Month. It grew out of work done by the historian and scholar Dr. Carter Woodson – whose life was devoted to the study and promotion of Black history. Dr. Woodson founded The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) in 1915, and he’s known as The Father of Black History.
ASALH has chapters all over the world now, including one in Dayton and its president is someone you ve heard here on WYSO, Omope Carter Daboiku, one of our West Dayton Stories producers. She s a storyteller and an artist, born and raised in Ironton, Ohio, not far from where Carter G. Woodson lived for part of his life. Neenah Ellis from Eichelberger Center for Community Voices had a conversation with her and asked if she had heard the story about Woodson s experience r