Woodson. In this reading, Woodson explains that African Americans did not receive the education they deserved. Reading this article by Woodson, the story of the monster may come to mind in some passages such as when Woodson writes: “Unlike other people, therefore, the negro, on this view, was an exception to the natural plan of things, and his mission was not to make an outstanding contribution to culture. The status of the Negro, therefore, was rightly fixed as that of an inferior (Jacobus