Author Event: Carter G. Woodson: History, The Black Press, and Public Relations

Join us for a conversation with Marshall University journalism professor and author Burnis R. Morris about historian, author, journalist and father of Black History, Carter G. Woodson. Professor Morris will discuss his book, Carter G. Woodson: History, The Black Press, and Public Relations, as well as the impact that Carter G. Woodson has had on education in both West Virginia and as a whole. 

Burnis R. Morris is the Carter G. Woodson Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University. Professor Morris is engaged in research about Woodson, “the Father of African-American history,” and his use of the press to promote Black history. In recognition of his research, Professor Morris has received several honors, including being named Marshall University’s 2011-2012 Distinguished John Deaver Drinko Academy Fellow, Emory University’s Carter G. Woodson Fellow (summer 2012) and 2011-2012 West Virginia Humanities Council Fellow. He has presented papers on Woodson at meetings of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, an organization founded by Woodson in 1915. Professor Morris is known nationally for his work to improve news coverage of tax-exempt organizations, and he has received more than $1 million in grants supporting that work and other programs he created at Marshall University and the University of Mississippi to attract the best and brightest students to careers in journalism.