Today's post is by Library Graduate Assistant Kimberly Braet.
In celebration of this year’s Black History Month theme: African Americans and Labor, the Lehman Library is featuring a display of some of the key snapshots, themes, and events related to workers and the working environment in black history. The gallery commemorates and highlights influential individuals who have contributed to achievements and progress in the labor force across time. The exhibit will be on display for the month of February in the gallery on the main floor of the library. To learn more about this year’s theme, visit The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s website at https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/.
In addition to a thoughtful arrangement of informational posters and history connected to this year’s Black History Month theme, the library has also curated a reading list that invites further discourse and reflection around labor in black history. These selected titles speak to the resilience of the African American people in our country in the fight for freedom and equity in the workplace.
You can also access e-books in the gallery space on the main floor using attached QR codes with your Ship login:
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
The Pekin: the rise and fall of Chicago's first black-owned theater by Thomas Bauman
Proudly we served: the men of the USS Mason by Mary Pat Kelly
Unceasing militant: the life of Mary Church Terrell by Alison M. Parker
Barack Obama : a life in American history by Erik F. Brooks and Placide M. MaCherie
The Black Power movement and American social work by Joyce Bell
Monstrous work and radical satisfaction: Black women writing under segregation by Eve Dunbar
Singing for Equality : Musicians of the Civil Rights Era by Diane C. Taylor
Black women at work: on refusal and recovery by Wendi S. Williams
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