      The continued value of Carter G. Woodsonâs sociological tour de force âThe Mis-Education of the Negro,â first published in 1933, exists because every aspect of the book reveals truth that Black people are confronted in 2026 with the same Centuries-old problem. Once basic education became available for so-called âfreedâ Black people, a system of exclusion accompanied total immersion in European dominance learning. Blacks learned nothing of Africa or of a place of dignity for themselves in America.