Boston Public Library Celebrates Black History Month
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 North End-related events:
Wednesday, Feb. 10. Alex R. Goldfeld will speak on Boston’s earliest African-Americans in a talk titled “Slavery and Freedom: Boston's Black Community since 1638,” at 6:30pm at the Central Library, 700 Boylston Street in Copley Square, 617.536.5400. He will draw from his research for his recently released book, The North End: A Brief History of Boston's Oldest Neighborhood, to speak about Boston’s earliest black community.
Beginning Saturday, Feb. 13. Learn African and Caribbean dances with Wyoma at this lively, interactive event. For ages 5 and up. At the following branches (www.bpl.org/branches):
· Tuesday, Feb. 16. 10:30am at the North End Branch
Below is more information and a full list of events:
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CONTACT: Gina Perille, Communications Manager
Boston Public Library, gperille@bpl.org, 617.859.2273
February 2, 2010
Boston Public Library Celebrates Black History Month
Programs Planned throughout February
BOSTON – February 2, 2010 – The Boston Public Library will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of programs in Copley Square, in the neighborhood branches, and online in the BPL’s digital image galleries. Film series, author talks, children’s programs, poetry readings, and jazz performances are all on the schedule to help commemorate this important month established by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an African-American historian, educator, and author. Dr. Carter focused upon the month of February because it contains the birthdays of two individuals he felt had dramatically altered the lives of blacks in America: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
In addition to programs and events, the Boston Public Library holds wide a variety of materials in its Anti-Slavery Collection, which is available year round in Copley Square and is now also available worldwide via Flickr, an online image sharing application. The Associates of the Boston Public Library (www.TheAssociates.org) helped conserve and digitize a portion of this tremendous collection to ensure one-of-a-kind materials from William Lloyd Garrison and other anti-slavery crusaders are available to all. Books, documents, letters, and pamphlets from prominent abolitionists, including the papers of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Weston sisters, have been digitized and are on display on the Boston Public Library’s Flickr page.
Each February, the Boston Public Library also publishes the “Black Is” booklist, a list of recent books about the African-American experience. The list will be available in all BPL locations and will be posted online with booklists from previous years (www.bpl.org/research/adultbooklists/blackis.htm).
The BPL’s Black History Month programs include:
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