Celebrating Black History Month
Prominent African Americans
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◊ Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States
◊ Michelle Obama
◊ Eric Holder: Attorney General
◊ Susan Rice: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
◊ Michael Steele: Republican Party Leader
◊ Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895)
◊ Booker T. Washington: The Quest for Economic Independence (1856 -1915)
◊ W.E.B. Du Bois: The Push for Political Agitation (1868-1963)
◊ Carter G. Woodson: Father of Black History (1875 -1950)
◊ Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow (1895 -1950)
◊ Ralph Johnson Bunche: Scholar and Statesman (1903 -1971)
◊ Thurgood Marshall: Mr. Civil Rights (1908-1993)
◊ Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (1913 - 2005)
◊ Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier (1919 -1972)
◊ Medgar Evers: Martyr of the Mississippi Movement (1925 - 1963)
◊ Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 -1968)
For more information about these and other important African Americans, see Gale's Cengage Learning's special Black History Month biography selections.
selected IRC Resources
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-- DVDs --
African American lives
America beyond the color line / written and presented by Henry Louis Gates
Barack Obama / produced for the Biography Channel
A history of black achievement in America-- Books --
The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country by Henry Louis Gates
African American writers
The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama
Barack Obama in his own words by Lisa Rogak (editor)
Black leaders of the nineteenth century
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Please contact the IRC for more information.