Celebrate 100 years of Black History Commemorations
This year’s Black History Month theme is “a century of Black history commemorations,” honoring the legacy of Black History Month: from the first “Negro History Week” in 1926 to the 1986 Congressional Law designating February as Black History Month, to today.
Carter G. Woodson founded the first Negro History Week to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, as part of the Bicentennial celebrations, President Gerald Ford formally recognized Black History Month. As our nation celebrates 250 years, it is as important as ever to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Black Americans.
Learn more about the history of Black History Month on the Association for the Study of African American Life and History website.
Join the library’s Black History Month celebrations by exploring intellectual and artistic contributions: music, film, history, literature, and more, on display in the atrium this month.
Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.
Find these titles and more on display in the library atrium all month long!
by Michael Harriot
by Badia Ahad-Legardy
