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Dr. Carter Godwin Wilson was known as the "Father of Black History." He was a former principal of Douglass High School and expressed the view, "We should emphasize not Negro history but the Negro in history." The CGW Memorial Foundation Inc. was founded in 1896 by former Mayor Robert Nelson, with special thanks to Mayor Jean Dean and Newatha Perry, President.
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