{"id":12654,"date":"2024-02-29T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:21:30","slug":"black-history-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/black-history-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Historical Figures\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em><strong>Louis Armstrong: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/proxy-na.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/exl_rewrite\/syndetics.com\/index.php?client=primo&amp;isbn=1555465714\/sc.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover of Louis Armstrong by Tanenhaus, Sam.\" width=\"136\" height=\"186\" \/><\/strong><\/em>Famous New Orleans trumpeter and influential jazz figure.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1gf6rsg\/alma99900419263201861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who Was Louis Armstrong?&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma992075801861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Louis Armstrong&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><strong>Maya Angelou: <\/strong><\/em>Civil Rights activist, poet and memoirist.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900419263101861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Who Was Maya Angelou?&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma996262901861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mom &amp; Me &amp; Mom&#8217;<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><em>Rosa Parks: <\/em><\/strong>Civil Rights Activist.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900419262701861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Who Was Rosa Parks?&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma993408901861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosa parks&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma991858401861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Rosa Parks: My Story&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><strong>Harriet Tubman: <\/strong><\/em>Social activist, abolitionist, woman who lead enslaved people through the underground railroad to freedom.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900180462801861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Who Was Harriet Tubman?&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma995957101861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><em>Malcolm X\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Civil Rights Activist<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900105160401861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Malcom X&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma993979801861\">&#8216;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma993979801861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Autobiography of Malcolm X&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/proxy-na.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/exl_rewrite\/syndetics.com\/index.php?client=primo&amp;isbn=9780143134442\/sc.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Sister Outsider by Audre Lord\" width=\"138\" height=\"212\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/strong>Civil Rights Activist<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900180663401861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;<em>Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma996275001861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma994486601861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;<em>Why We Can&#8217;t Wait&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><strong>A Work from Audre Lorde: <\/strong><\/em>Feminist, civil rights activist, writer and professor.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900622654901861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Sister Outsider&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><strong>Henrietta<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Lacks: <\/strong>A Virginian Woman whose cells where taken and used for important cancer research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma996113201861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Black Figures in Other Areas of History<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900121963201861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99900121963101861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;<em>Black Women Scientists in the United States&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma993706901861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present&#8217;<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alliance-clark.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01ALLIANCE_CC\/1arco42\/alma99169501861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8216;A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the 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