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Celebrate Black History Month

2021

Black History Month (also known as African-American History Month) is an annual celebration of achievements by African-Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of blacks in American history.

It began in 1926 as "Negro History Week," and became a national celebratory month in 1976.

Black History Month

Book Lists

book cover: The Boyfriend Project

Black Romance

Book Cover: The Memory of Love

Global Black Voices

Book Cover: The Harlem Hellfighters

WWI: The African American Experience

Book Cover: The Warmth of Other Suns

The Great Migration

book cover: revolution in Black and White

Civil Rights History

Events at the Library

Highlights of African-American History in Arlington

Floyd Hawkins, who at the age of 81 helped start the Arlington County Fair, and served as the Fair’s treasurer for 10 years, from 1977 to 1987.

Floyd Hawkins: A Honey of a Guy

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Our Back Pages: Arlington’s Own Declaration of Civil Rights

colorized photo of high school black and white boys sitting on the bleachers in track uniforms

The Story of Arlington Public School Desegregation

Black and white photo of Queen City

From Freedman’s Village to Queen City

1931 Halls Hill volunteer fire department

Oral History: Interview with Firefighter Julian Syphax

Joan Cooper with George H.W. Bush

Nauck Activist Joan Cooper

"Cubbers being inducted into scouting, 1953"

Cub Scout Pack 589 and Ernest Johnson

Green Valley Pharmacy 2010

Green Valley Pharmacy

Edmund Fleet and an unknown woman flank Lady Bird Johnson at a Chuck Robb campaign event held at Fleet's house

Edmond C. Fleet, Community Swimming Pool Supporter

Birdie Alston's birthday poster with balloons

Happy 100th Birthday, Birdie Alston!

1930s baseball team, all black men, photograph

Arlington’s African-American Baseball Teams

Drawing of two hands with the words "It's as easy as counting on your fingers"

“If You Don’t Vote, You Don’t Count”

Jefferson School, 1932

The Jefferson School

Mary Church Terrell

On This Day in 19th Amendment History: Mary Church Terrell

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Lomax Church and Library Celebrate Records Acquisition

photo of Dorothy Ham, a beautiful black woman wearing pearl earings and a necklace, smiling at the camera

A Fight for Educational Equality: Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Hamm

Featured

This Week in 19th Amendment History: Nannie Helen Burroughs

Science Demo

Oral History: Attending Hoffman-Boston High School in the 1940s

Album Cover

America’s First All-Women Swing Band Lived in Arlington

Lutrelle Parker

Rediscover Lutrelle Fleming Parker, Sr.

Photo of Dr. Bruner examining a patient, assisted by a nurse.

Dr. Roland Bruner: Taking a Stand

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Portia Haskins: Taking a Stand

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Fire Station #8: Taking a Stand

Memorial program for Dr. Leonard Muse, 8/26/2017

Leonard “Doc” Muse: Taking a Stand

John Robinson receiving an award.

John Robinson: Taking a Stand

February 1, 2021 by Web Editor

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