Black History Month

February

Paying tribute to Black Americans of the local community in a celebration of history and culture and in recognition of the community’s struggle for inclusion and equity.

Be The Change by exploring these booklists:

• Adult Booklist

• Teen Booklist

• Children's Booklists

  • Black Identity: books that celebrate Black Boy Joy and Black Girl Magic

  • Black Experience: books that depict all kinds of Black families and experiences

  • Black Characters: Books featuring dynamic Black characters in other genres

  • Black History: historical fiction and nonfiction books about different figures and eras in Black History

  • Black Struggle: books that explore different aspects contemporary racial injustice

  • Difficult Conversations: books that offer a starting place for hard but important conversations and action

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• Black in Glendale - B.I.G.'s mission is to promote awareness and respect for Black culture through events that honor the heritage, creativity and contributions of Black people and builds community among Glendale neighbors and friends.

• Southern California Library SCL is a community library and archive located in South Los Angeles. SCL documents and makes accessible histories of struggles that challenge racism and other systems of oppression so we can all imagine and sustain possibilities for freedom. Everyone is welcome to use the Library's resources to research and put to practice the histories of everyday people working to create change.

• The Great Migration: Creating a New Black Identity in Los Angeles - In honor of Black History Month, this is the first in a three part series exploring the shifting Black communities of Los Angeles.

• Community and Commerce: Oral Histories of African American Businesses in Los Angeles - Features a series of eighteen oral histories conducted by COHR that document long-term African American business ownership in the Los Angeles area.

• California African American Museum - The first African American museum of art, history, and culture fully supported by a state. Listen to their podcast in partnership with the California Institute of Rural Studies, and Dr. Caroline Collins at UCSD: We Are Not Strangers Here African American Histories in Rural California.

• California Cultures: African Americans - Historic photographs and artwork show the changing lives of African Americans from the Gold Rush Era and Statehood, through years of struggle to claim their civil rights.

• California Historical Society - Cognizant that much of the state’s African American history has been overlooked or suppressed, the California Historical Society is marking Black History Month through several public history programs.

• Glendale Community College (GCC) Black History Month - GCC is hosting a variety of events and workshops with the theme of Celebrating Blackness throughout the months of January and February. Flyer

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• African American History Month - The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

• National Museum of African American History and Culture - It provides an opportunity for those who are interested in African American culture to explore and revel in this history through interactive exhibitions. It helps all Americans see how their stories, their histories, and their cultures are shaped and informed by global influences.

• Library of Congress NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom Exhibit - A retrospective of the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years.

• In Motion: The African American Migration Experience - A new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.

• Slave Voyages - This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them.

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - 2,300+ first-person accounts of slavery & 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

• Black Women's Suffrage - The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

• African American History: American Memory from the Library of Congress - 16 collections ranging from music to baseball to slavery.

• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture - 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere via the Library of Congress's books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.

• Learning for Justice - A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) was founded in 1991 to prevent the growth of hate. Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school.

• She the People - She the People is activating and mobilizing women of color across the country to create a politics grounded in love, justice, and belonging.