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Black History Month
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History: from History.com with links to your Library resources.
Black
History Month was the inspiration of
Carter G. Woodson, a noted scholar
and historian, who instituted Negro
History Week in 1926. He chose the
second week of February to coincide
with the birthdays of President
Abraham Lincoln and the abolitionist
Frederick Douglass.
The
celebration was expanded to a month
in 1976, the nation's bicentennial.
President Gerald R. Ford urged
Americans to "seize the opportunity
to honor the too-often neglected
accomplishments of black Americans
in every area of endeavor throughout
our history."
Woodson, the son of former slaves in
Virginia, realized that the
struggles and achievements of
Americans of African descent were
being ignored or misrepresented. He
founded the Association for the
Study of African American Life and
History (ASALH), which supports
historical research, publishes a
scholarly journal and sets the theme
for Black History Month each year. |
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"In
honor of the efforts of
people of African descent to
destroy slavery and
inaugurate universal freedom
in the United States, the Association for the Study
of African American Life and
History has selected “African Americans and the
Civil War” as the 2011 National Black History
Theme. We urge all Americans
to study and reflect on the
value of their contributions
to the nation."
WEBSITE
"Once
let the black man get upon
his person the brass
letters, U.S.,
let him get an eagle on his
button, and a musket on his
shoulder and
bullets in his pockets, and
there is no power on earth
which can
deny that he has earned the
right to citizenship in the
United States."
--
Frederick Douglass |
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Books on Civil Rights
[School-Age Readers]
-- Archer, Jules
[for 3rd-8th Grade]
They had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King to Malcom X
-- Bridges, Ruby
[for K-5th Grade]
Through My Eyes
-- Bullard, Sara
[for 6th-12th Grade]
Free at Last: A History of the
Civil Rights Movement and Those
Who Died
in the Struggle
-- Hampton, Henry, et al
[for 9th-12th Grade]
Voices of Freedom: An Oral
History of the
Civil Rights
Movement from the 1950s
Through the 1980s
-- Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
[for 3rd-5th Grade]
To the mountaintop: My journey
through the civil rights movement
-- McKissack, Pat
[for 3rd-8th Grade]
The Civil rights Movement in
America
from 1865 to the Present
-- Ollhoff, Jim
[for 3rd-5th Grade]
The civil rights movement
-- Parks, Rosa
[for 3rd-5th Grade]
Rosa Parks: My Story
-- Pinkney, Andrea Davis
[for 6th-12th Grade]
Let it Shine: Stories of Black
Women Freedom Fighters
-- Rappaport, Doreen
[for K-5th Grade]
Martin's Big Words: The Life
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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