Black History Month

With Black History month coming to a close here is a list of resources for students and community members to celebrate, read and learn about the importance of African Americans through out history.

Historical Figures 

Louis Armstrong: Famous New Orleans trumpeter and influential jazz figure.

• ‘Who Was Louis Armstrong?’
• ‘Louis Armstrong’

Maya Angelou: Civil Rights activist, poet and memoirist.

• ‘Who Was Maya Angelou?’
• ‘Mom & Me & Mom’

Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist.

• ‘Who Was Rosa Parks?’
• ‘Rosa parks’
• ‘Rosa Parks: My Story’

Harriet Tubman: Social activist, abolitionist, woman who lead enslaved people through the underground railroad to freedom.

• ‘Who Was Harriet Tubman?’
• “Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.’

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist

• ‘Malcom X’
• ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Activist

• ‘Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?’
• ‘Martin Luther King, Jr.’ 
• ‘Why We Can’t Wait’

A Work from Audre Lorde: Feminist, civil rights activist, writer and professor.

• ‘Sister Outsider’

Henrietta Lacks: A Virginian Woman whose cells where taken and used for important cancer research

• ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ 

Black Figures in Other Areas of History

• ‘Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success’
• ‘Black Women Scientists in the United States’
• ‘Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present’
• ‘A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present’ 
• ‘Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race’
• ‘Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century’