Celebrate Black History @ Hedberg Library: Home

"Black History should be an integral part of U.S. History year-round. The accurate and in-depth teaching of Black History remains an elusive dream. Regardless, we should continue to call attention to the African-American activism and achievements during the month of February to remind us to reimagine the possibilities that can lie ahead."

- Michele Hancock, Vice President of College Culture for Inclusion, Professor of Practice in Education - Carthage College

February 2022 Black History Month Celebration Themes:

• Week 1: African-American Museums: Explore the history of African-Americans.
• Week 2: African-American Creative Expression: Explore art, music, poetry, photography, film, plays, etc.
• Week 3: African-American Inventors and Innovators: Learn about people who changed the world.
• Week 4: Anti-racism influencers: Activists and Abolitionists who commit or committed their lives to social justice.

Explore electronic resources for each week's theme below. Please also see the displays in the library and the lists of Hedberg Library subject-specific titles at the bottom of this page.

General Resources:

• Black History Month video collection on Kanopy

Week 1 Resources: Museums

Websites:

• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• DuSable Museum of African American History

eBooks:

• Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• A Day at the Museum (children's book)

Week 2 Resources: Creative Expressions

Websites:

• Casa Afro - A 3D tour of the Puerto Rico art gallery

eBooks:

• Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection
• When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
• In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of An American Masterpiece
• Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negreo Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
• Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
• Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America From the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun
• The Theatre of August Wilson
• Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema

eVideos/Online Videos:

• Thank God: An African-American Docu-Opera - Part 1
• Thank God: An African-American Docu-Opera - Part 2
• Thank God: An African-American Docu-Opera - Part 3
• Thank God: An African-American Docu-Opera - Part 4
• The Apollo
• Art of Soul! - National Afro-American Museum & Culture Center

Week 3 Resources: innovators

eBooks:

• Lucean Arther Headen: The Making of a Black Inventory and Entrepreneur
• Lewis Latimer: The Man Behind a Better Light Bulb (children's book)
• Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal

Articles:

• M3: Leroy Raadel Posey, an African American Inventory of a Mathematics Teaching Machine

eVideos:

• Bessie Coleman, The First Black Aviatrix

Week 4 Resources: Anti-Racism Activists

Websites:

• Antiracism and Racial Justice (on the PBS Wisconsin website)

eBooks:

• How to Be An Antiracist
• Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

eVideos:

• PBS NewsHour: How Anti-Racism is a Treatment for the 'Cancer' of Racism
• PBS NewsHour: How This Year's Antiracism Protests Differ From Past Social Justice Movements