Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a “life-and-death struggle”

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Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship to continue my work at the German Maritime Museum as Senior Fellow on my new project “Convicts’ Letters: Spaces of Action, Emotions, and Survival on Board the Calcutta en Route to Australia, 1803” including extended research trips to archives and libraries in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/new-jim-crow

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The new Jim Crow | National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS)

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar

1939: Bonnie Renard is eighteen and willing to die for France. 'Incredible book. Heart breaking and heart warming at the same time . A must read, brave characters, so well written it draws you into another world.' mybook.to/UnderEnemySkies #WW2 #Frenchresistance #historymatters Lest we forget.