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Celebration of the Month Library Exhibits: Black History Month

Celebrate monthly events with these commemorative library exhibits!

Black History Month 2023 Library Exhibit

The Ozuna Library celebrates Black History Month with a poster exhibit titled  A Place for All People from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.  This poster exhibit highlights several of the museum’s inaugural exhibitions.  The exhibit will be on display February 1-28, 2023  during the Ozuna Library’s hours of operation.

                 

Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture                           

People, Places and Events in Black History

The Underground Railroad

The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber.

 c1893.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a29554/

Accessed 4 Feb. 2021

 

Eldridge Cleaver

Trikosko, Marion S, photographer. Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party and presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party speaking at the Woods-Brown Outdoor Theatre, American University / MST. 1968 Oct. 18. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Accessed 3 Feb. 2021

W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963

Battey, C. M, photographer. W.E.B. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, -1963. May 31. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003681451/>. Accessed 3 Feb. 2021

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Leffler, Warren K, photographer.  IVU w/ i.e., interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson / WKL. 1983 Jul. 1. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Accessed 3 Feb. 2021

Martin Luther King

Trikosko, Marion S, photographer. (1964) Martin Luther King press conference / MST. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Accessed 3 Feb. 2021

Booker T. Washington

 

Cheyne, C. E, photographer. (1903) Booker T. Washington sitting and holding books. [Hampton, Virginia] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Accessed 3 Feb. 2021

Protest

  • Title: [Group of African-Americans, marching near the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to protest the lynching of four African-Americans in Georgia]
  • Date Created/Published: 1946.
  • Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. 
  • Accessed  8 Feb. 2021