This year’s Black History Month theme addresses “the efforts of people of African descent to destroy slavery and inaugurate universal freedom in the United States.” African Americans served as recruiters, soldiers, nurses and spies during the Civil War which Frederick Douglass believed would bring an end to America’s “peculiar institution,” slavery. He was proven correct! In honor of this year’s theme, the LTRC display for the month of February celebrates African Americans and the Civil War. The display cases contain books and photographs addressing slavery and emancipation, African American Civil War issues, and autobiographies and narratives of slaves.
For more information, please see:
http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/about.html
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/overview-african-americans-civil-war
http://www.asalh.org/Annual_National_Black_History_Theme.html
