Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Sandy Avila, Megan Haught, Dawn Tripp, Sara Duff, Glen Samuels, Richard Harrison, Emily Horne, Peggy Nuhn, and Lily Dubach.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, lib-edi, reading, black history month
Description
This is why our February Featured Bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to works illuminating the effects of systemic racism in our country. We are proud to present our top staff suggested books in honor of Black History Month 2021.
Abstract
The national celebration of African American History was started by Carter G. Woodson, a Harvardtrained historian and the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and first celebrated as a weeklong event in February of 1926. After a half century of overwhelming popularity, the event was expanded to a full month in 1976 by President Gerald Ford.
Here at UCF Libraries we believe that knowledge empowers everyone in our community and that recognizing past inequities is the only way to prevent their continuation. This is why our February Featured Bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to works illuminating the effects of systemic racism in our country. We are proud to present our top staff suggested books in honor of Black History Month 2021.
Keep reading below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the Black History Month titles suggested by UCF Library employees. These books plus many, many more are also on display on the main floor of the John C. Hitt Library near the Research & Information Desk.
Date Created
2-1-2021
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
STARS Citation
Haught, Megan M., "Featured Bookshelf: 2021 Black History Month" (2021). Featured Bookshelf. 32.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/32