Celebrate Black History Month: African Americans and the Vote
African Americans and the Vote
In celebration of Black History Month, the University Library has a featured display in the lobby that includes resources highlighting this year's theme, "African Americans and the Vote."
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement. It also marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War. The theme speaks to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women for the right to vote.
The Library is also hosting a screening of "Into the Fire (1861-1896): The African Americans—Many Rivers to Cross"
Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:00 - 7:00 pm
ALB 310
Free
Popcorn provided
Description: This video examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction’s thrilling but brief “moment in the sun.” From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their liberation—by fleeing the plantations and taking up arms to serve in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom—rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office—but a few years later, an intransigent South mounted a swift and vicious campaign of terror to restore white supremacy and roll back African-American rights. Yet the achievements of Reconstruction remained in the collective memory of the African-American community."
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