Library Recommends: Black History Month Books and Documentaries for Adults, Teens and Kids

Black History Month was conceived by Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard historian who is widely recognized as the founder of African American academic studies.  He chose the week coinciding with the birthdays of abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. By the 1940s, organizers began expanding to a month-long celebration and since 1976, Black…

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