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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI): February - Black History Month

Black History Month

(February)

 

Visit the library for additional resources and displays

photo of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

Leader and Activist

Photo credit: Trikosko/Library of Congress

Picture of Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

Author, Historian, and Activist

Slowking4, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Woodcut of Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker

Mathematician, Astronomer, Inventor, Writer, and Intellectual

Picture of Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor

"Kara Walker Interview Camden Arts Centre 01.47 (cropped)" by studio international is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Portrait of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Journalist and Social Reformer

Photo of Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale

Activist and Founder of The Black Panther Party

Picture of Ketanji Brown Jackson in judicial robes

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Court Justice

H2rty, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Jerry Lawson

Jerry Lawson

Electronic Engineer

OU133, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

John Lewis portrait in front of the Capitol Building

John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader and Politician 

Picture of Condoleezza Rice in front of an American flag

Condoleezza Rice

Educator and Politician

Portrait of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, Author, Orator, and Newspaper Publisher

Picture of Janelle Monae

Janelle MonĂ¡e

Singer-songwriter and rapper

Myles Kalus Anak Jihem, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Martin Luther King, Jr. leaning on a podium

Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Religious Leader and Social Activist

Picture of Doechii

Doechii

Rapper and singer

Josh Berendes (@brende_films), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Inventor, Aerospace Engineer, and Entrepreneur

Portrait of Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

 Memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist

Portrait of Carter G Woodson

Carter G. Woodson

American Historian

Octavia Butler signs a book

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction author and multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards

Nikolas Coukouma, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall

Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist, and the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court

Picture of Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

 Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor and professor

John Mathew Smith (celebrity-photos.com), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

portrait of W.E.B. DuBois

W.E.B. Du Bois

Sociologist, Historian, Author, Editor, and Activist

Picture of Ava Duvernay

Ava Duvernay

Director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor

Picture of Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Astronomer, Author, and Speaker

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

American writer of books for children and adolescents

Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Resources on Black History
2024 Theme: African Americans and the Arts

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