Still much to overcome: African American history month is a good
reminder to keep our eyes on the prize.CARTER WOODSON'S LIFE
READS LIKE A MADE-TO-ORDER American success story: taught to
read by family members, he worked as a coal miner in West
Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It
is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and
S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and
Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , graduated from
Berea College Berea College, at Berea, Ky.; coeducational;
founded 1855 by John G. Fee as a one-room school, chartered
1866, a college since 1869. Fostered by abolitionists including
Cassius M. Clay, it aimed to educate both black and white, male
and female residents of Appalachia. in Kentucky in 1903, and in
his spare time learned Romance languages Romance languages,
group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the
Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages). Also
called Romanic, they are spoken