Black History Month

                                         

The DC Public Library proudly celebrates Black History Month during February with author talks, lectures, arts and crafts, story times and more.

Events:

Attend story times, study genealogy and listen to engaging speakers. Find the featured events below and more in the calendar.
 

FEATURED EVENTS

Going for Freedom: True Accounts of Flight in Verse Feb. 2 at Lamond-Riggs	Black History Month Activity Series Tuesdays at Shepherd Park	C.R. Gibbs African American History Series Weekly series starting on Feb. 4 at Cleveland Park	An Army of Educators Feb. 4 at Shepherd Park
30th Annual Black Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You Feb. 5 at Georgetown	Jackson Family Art Show Feb. 7 at Shaw	Getting Started: African-American Genealogy and DNA Testing Feb. 9 at Shepherd Park	Feeder's Advisory: The Red Rooster Cookbook Feb. 11 at Northeast
Know Your Neighborhood Black History Month Party Feb. 13 at Deanwood	Black History Month: To the Stars Feb. 14 at Woodridge	The Legacy of Harriet Tubman: A One-Woman Performance Feb. 16 at Bellevue	Author Talk: E. Ethelbert Miller Feb. 19 at Lamond-Riggs
Icons of Black Music and Politics Feb. 20 at Benning	Transcribe-a-Thon: Mary Church Terrell Letters Feb. 21 at Washingtonian	Author Talk: Sonja D. Williams Feb. 23 at Cleveland Park	King and the Library: A Visioning Session Feb. 28 at Shaw

 

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Did You Know?

Your library has a wealth of online resources that can help enrich your understanding of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement and even your own personal history. It all can be found in our databases. 

	You can search your family and local history through Heritage Quest.	Find in Genealogy
	You can read articles from four historic black newspapers: Atlanta Daily World The Baltimore Afro-American Chicago Defender New York Amsterdam News Information dates back to the late 1800s.	Find in Magazines and Newspapers
	The African American Studies Center contains over 5,000 biographies; more than 7,500 articles and hundreds of maps; documents; images; timelines; websites and charts and tables of African-American life; history and culture.	Find in Biography
	Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to black studies that includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles and much more.	Find in Black Studies Online Research
	The African American Experience contains 500 full-text reference and scholarly articles and over 4,000 slave narratives. Includes primary documents, maps and images, lesson plans, searchable timelines and Web links.	Find in Black Studies Online Research

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Good Reads

Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France by Magdalena J. Zaborowksa	The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin	The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis	South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain	Cultivating the Genius of Black Children: Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap in the Early Years by Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

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For Children

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison	So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom  by Gary D. Schmidt, illustrated by Daniel Minter	Islandborn by Junot Díaz, illustrated by Leo Espinosa	Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate	Voice of freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights movement by Carole Boston Weatherford

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For Teens

March. Book Three written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin	For Everyone by Jason Reynolds	All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely	Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford	X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon

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Good Films

Charlotte Forten's Mission	Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later	The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975	Selected: One Dream. One School. One Year	With All Deliberate Speed

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goDigital Resources

OverDrive Booklists
Black History Month 
Afrofuturism

Access Videos
Black History Month 

Kanopy Movies
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Freegal Music
Black History Month Playlist