Complete and unabridged text in the direct voice of Carter Godwin Woodson. Anyone studying influence, persuasion, or social controls would do well to study this book.

-When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it.-

Complete and unabridged text in the direct voice of Carter Godwin Woodson. Anyone studying influence, persuasion, or social controls would do well to study this book.

-When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it.-

The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to do for themselves, regardless of what they were taught:

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