{"id":9657,"date":"2019-12-30T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:18:28","slug":"this-week-in-history-dec-29th-jan-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkcollegelibraries.org\/blog\/this-week-in-history-dec-29th-jan-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History, Dec. 29th – Jan. 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cArt didn\u2019t start black or white, it just started … There have been too many labels in this world: Negro, Colored, Black, African-American … Why do we label people with everything except Children of God?”1<\/sup>\u00a0 \u00a0— Selma H. Burke<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week celebrates the Birthday of Selma Burke;<\/a>\u00a0sculptor, educator, member of the Harlem Renaissance and winner of the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.2\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

Besides being an accomplished artist she was entrepreneurial in that she created art schools, such as the Selma Burke Art Center, as well.<\/p>\n

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Selma Burke circa 19353<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Check out, Notable Black American women<\/em> and learn more about Selma Burke and her life.\u00a0 It can be found in the Clark Library at E185.96 .N68 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered”<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Edwin Hubble (attributed)4<\/sup><\/p>\n

Before this week in 1924, astronomers believed that the Andromeda nebula was just that, a nebula that was part of our own galaxy.\u00a0 Hubble changed<\/a> that when he announced his discovery that the nebula was actually a galaxy on it’s own, changing the commonly held belief that our own galaxy was the only one in existence in our Universe.<\/p>\n

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NASA photo of the NGC 4414 Galaxy5<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Learn more about Edwin Hubble by checking out, Edwin Hubble : mariner of the nebulae<\/em>, which can be found at\u00a0 QB36.H83 C48 1995<\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/sup> http:\/\/robertwilliamsofbrooklyn.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/selma-burke-got-dime.html
\n2<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_Caucus_for_Art_Lifetime_Achievement_Award
\n3<\/sup> https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Selma-Burke-WPA-1935.jpg
\n4<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Hubble
\n5<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galaxy#\/media\/File:NGC_4414_(NASA-med).jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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