Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Richard Harrison, Rebecca Hawk, Betsy Kaniecki, Sandy Avila, Sara Duff, Jada Reyes, Megan Haught, Rachel Mulvihill, and Jeremy Lucas.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, lib-edi, reading, black history
Description
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 featured bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to having difficult conversations about racism in American history.
Abstract
The national celebration of African American History was started by Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained 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 featured bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to having difficult conversations about racism in American history. We are proud to present our top 20 staff suggested books in honor of Black History Month.
Keep reading below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the Black History Month titles suggested by UCF Library employees. These 20 books plus many, many more are also on display on the 2nd (main) floor of the John C. Hitt Library next to the bank of two elevators.
Date Created
2-1-2020
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: 2020 Black History Month" (2020). Featured Bookshelf. 36.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/36