One justification given by social studies teachers for avoiding teaching or incorporating race into their lessons is the absence of race from textbooks. Given that textbooks continue to play a significant role in social studies instruction, the authors analyzed how Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, a Black scholar of the early twentieth century, accounted for race in two of the textbooks he wrote for K-12 teachers. In this essay, we used the principles of Black Critical Patriotism as a framework to analyze two of Woodson's textbooks--"The Negro in Our History" and "Negro Makers of History." We concluded with a discussion regarding potential limitations while emphasizing the place for Woodson's textbooks within social studies classrooms.