Black History Month

Yes, we have fought for America with all her imperfections, not so much for what she is, but for what we know she can be. Perhaps the greatest battle is before us, the fight for a new America: fearless, free, united, morally re-armed, in which 12 million Negroes, shoulder to shoulder with their fellow Americans, will strive that this nation under God will have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, for the people and by the people shall not perish from the earth. ~Mary McLeod Bethune, 1939 speech

February is Black History Month

African American History Month (Library of Congress)
Listen to speeches, see original photographs and other archives.

Black History Month on BET

NAACP - History

United Negro College Fund

Notable African-Americans from Infoplease

Events

Black History Month Events in the Twin Cities (Insight News)

Black History Month Events (Mpls City Council)

St. Kate's Connections

St. Kate's Leads Off Black History Month with Discussion on Faith's Power to Heal Racism

CSC - Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity

Books at St. Kate's Library

St. Paul campus

Black history : a guide to civilian records in the National Archives (Reference) E185 .N576 1984

The African-American atlas : Black history and culture (Reference) E185 .A79 1998

The African-American mosaic (Reference) E184.6 .L47 1993

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas (Reference) E185 .E54 2006

Minneapolis Campus

The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (Reference) E185.61 .E544 (1998)

The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans (Reference) E185 .A8 1991

See also the displays at the St. Paul and Minneapolis campus libraries

Minneapolis Library Display Case

See related topics:

Coretta King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks