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Historian Carter G. Woodson was also a founding framer of Black Studies who created the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1915 to promote the study of Black life and history in order to "bring about harmony between the "races" by interpreting one to the other." Black studies or Africana Studies emerged from the larger social and political movement of global Black liberation in the late 1960s as a nascent academic field. Their protest led to the creation of the first Black Studies department in the United States. [Extracted from the article]