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Celebrating African American Labor

02/07/2025
profile-icon John Barnett
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Image showing A. Philip Randolph and Fannie Lou Hamer honoring African Americans and labor

On display now in the 1st floor library study room area is a series of posters celebrating African American labor, the theme for Black History Month 2025.

Many of the posters are provided by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the founders of Black History Month. According to the ASALH, this year's Black History Month theme focuses on "the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds--free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary--intersect with the collective experiences of Black people." 

The exhibit is supplemented by other posters featuring a small selection of African American leaders in civil rights and labor, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Fannie Lou Hamer. Another poster features an inspirational quote from late Hip Hop icon, Tupac Shakur.

The added posters are courtesy of Mr. Johnson Paints.

Please stop by the library in February to view the exhibit and learn more about the important and far-reaching contributions of African American labor.

 

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