{"id":3200,"date":"2021-02-22T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:38:39","slug":"black-history-month-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/black-history-month-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ll be sharing resources from our collection as well as sites from around the internet:<\/p>\n

\"screenshot<\/a>Our subscription to the African American Historical Serials Collection<\/a> provides access to “an archive of periodicals that document the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. It includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies. Now compiled and accessible to researchers in one digital collection, this unique resource documents the history of African American life and religious organizations from 1829 and 1922. Content features multiple religious denominations, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Zion Church and many Baptist churches.”<\/p>\n

\"UniversityIn 2010, the University Council on Diversity<\/a> invited alumni to participate in interviews addressing diversity. This collection, stewarded by Meg Miner, our University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will be added to as more interviews are done with alumni in the future.<\/p>\n

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\"UGAThe University of Georgia’s Brown Media Archives recently discovered footage from the area’s African American community<\/a> in a home movie. Read the press release<\/a>, or visit the Brown Media Archives<\/a> page for more information.<\/p>\n

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\"JSTOR<\/a> JSTOR, one of our favorite organizations, recently created a companion<\/a> to the renowned Schomburg Center’s for Research in Black Culture<\/a>‘s Black Liberation Reading List<\/a>. For more information about the reading list, see the JSTOR Daily<\/a>, which also links to Black Liberation Lists for teens and children.<\/p>\n

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\"Historymakers\" From the Library of Congress, The HistoryMakers<\/a> collects oral histories from notables in the African American community, across the United States. Artists, sports figures, lawmakers, and scientists are just a few of the groups represented.<\/p>\n

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