February is Black History Month!
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When Carter Woodson established the precursor to Black History Month in 1926, he hoped it would “serve as a focal point for ‘celebrating’ the role of African Americans in American history,” and since the United States Congress passed a public law that, "established Black History Month as a "federally designated observance."
Black History Month: An Overview. (2017). In K. Mack- Shelton & M. Shally-Jensen (Eds.), Racial & Ethnic Relations in America (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 199-202). Ipswich, MA: Salem Press/Grey House.
Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History chooses a theme to highlight a specific element of black history. This year, the theme is African Americans and the Vote. “The year 2020 [...] marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War.”
“The Founders of Black History Month: BLACK HISTORY THEMES.” ASALH, 6 Jan. 2020, asalh.org/black-history-themes/.
You can read more about this theme at the ASALH site linked here.
If you are interested in learning more about African American History, ACC has many resources to help you out. A great place to start would be the Multicultural History Library Guide.
You can also check out the African-American Cultural Center at the Eastview Campus in room 2133.
You can read more about this theme at the ASALH site linked here.
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If you are interested in learning more about African American History, ACC has many resources to help you out. A great place to start would be the Multicultural History Library Guide.
You can also check out the African-American Cultural Center at the Eastview Campus in room 2133.
NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SELECTIONS
FROM ACC LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Boyd, Herb. Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-determination. F574 .D49 N429 2017.
Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & the Struggle for Equality. E185.925 .C64 2018.
Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers & the Struggle for Equality. E185.925 .C64 2018.
Estes, Steve. Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement. F279 .C49 E87 2018.
Hervieux, Linda. Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War. D769.343 .320TH .H467 2015.
Honey, Michael K. To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. E185.97 .K5 H59 2018.
Jones, Martha S. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. KF4757 .J67 2018.
Morrison, Melanie. Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham. KF224 .P48 M677 2018.
Smith, Dale Edwyna. African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865: Slavery, Freedom and the West. F474 .S29 S75 2017.
ACC’s library has many more print and electronic books about African American history, as well as articles from scholarly journals, videos, and more. If you would like additional resources, please stop by any ACC library for help at the reference desk, or chat with us online!
