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Black History Month Resource Round-up

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February is Black History Month. To help you celebrate, we compiled a list of resources to inform and help librarians with programming ideas to teach and recognize the important achievements of Black Americans.

Do you have favorite resources that are not listed below? Please share them in the comments or email us at programminglibrarian@ala.org.

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Black Bethlehem: Documenting the Black Experience in a Majority-White Town

Three side-by-side photos of archived images in the Black Bethlehem Project.

In 2013, Sharon King’s mother, Vivian W. Butts, got sick. With Sharon living in New York and her mother in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the close-knit Black community in Bethlehem rallied to take care of Vivian while Sharon was away.

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