Black History Month
With Black History month coming to a close here is a list of resources for students and community members to celebrate, read and learn about the importance of African Americans through out history.
Historical Figures
Louis Armstrong: 
Famous New Orleans trumpeter and influential jazz figure.
Maya Angelou: Civil Rights activist, poet and memoirist.
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist.
Harriet Tubman: Social activist, abolitionist, woman who lead enslaved people through the underground railroad to freedom.
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Activist
A Work from Audre Lorde: Feminist, civil rights activist, writer and professor.
Henrietta Lacks: A Virginian Woman whose cells where taken and used for important cancer research
Black Figures in Other Areas of History
- ‘Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success’
- ‘Black Women Scientists in the United States’
- ‘Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present’
- ‘A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present’
- ‘Hidden Figures: the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race’
- ‘Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century’
