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| He was the first son of nine children, Woodson worked as a sharecropper and a miner to help his family. | |
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| He began high school in his late teens, completing a four-year course of study in less than two years. | |
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| Woodson worked for the U.S. government as an education superintendent in the Philippines. Woodson then earned his bachelor’s and master’s from Harvard University in 1912. | |
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