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The Black History Month 2007 page will be updated during February with new articles. It also contains a guide to public events and activities, and an Internet resource guide. Selected articles from previous Black History Months are also included.


2007 Black History Month Guide

Pittsburgh Courier Images
"Pittsburgh Courier Images" is a Citiparks-hosted exhibit of 80 photographs from the Courier that will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Feb. 28 in the City-County Building lobby, Downtown. In this photo from the exhibit, Thurgood Marshall Jr. was christened at Saint Phillip Protestant Episcopal church in New York City. Holding the infant is one of the godmothers, Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, of Pittsburgh.

2007 Black History Month articles

Black History Month Events Guide
Black History Month TV specials

AP Black History Month interactive

 My Generation Book Club: Celebrating Black History
 Soft-spoken pioneer was city's first black female principal
 My Generation Book Club: Author Q&A: Jacqueline Woodson
 Black History Month events: Week of Feb. 5
 Black History Month destinations beckon
 NFL makes black history: Two black coaches in the Super Bowl and one in Pittsburgh


2006 Black History Month articles

 Foundation funded by blacks is poised to make a difference
 Photos displayed in City-County Building for Black History Month
 She recalls civil rights struggles in Alabama
 Coretta Scott King's book awards make a difference
 Black History Month: City's well-off assisted black orphans in 1880


2005 Black History Month articles

 History of slavery tells neglected stories
 Historic sites trace Underground Railroad's route to freedom
 Travel: Get schooled on civil rights at Little Rock Central High


2004 Black History Month articles
 

 Country's first African-American forester was part of state class
 Documentary examines the many roles of actress Beah Richards
African-American cultural center plan moves ahead
 Forum: A Black History Month valentine
Stage Review: 'Buffalo Soldiers' revisits historic time
 "K. Leroy Irvis: The Lion of Pennsylvania"
'Community' is basis of Steel Valley exhibit

 Tony Norman:
Black History Month has gone star-struck
TV series assesses status of black America
 Chuck Cooper: The Pioneer Spirit

 Citizens Bank will sponsor King essay contest

Rosa Parks after her arrest
 in 1955. (AP Photo)

2003 Black History Month articles



 Growing with Phipps: Carver's agricultural revolutions began with a peanut


2002 Black History Month articles

 Against all odds, Pullman porters formed a union
 Strong readings elevate wide-ranging stories of the black experience
 The buried history of slavery
 Langston's Legacy: The influence of the poet at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance lives on today
 Tony Norman: 'Roots' still a powerful statement 25 years later
 Editorial: King the radical / The mainstream didn't always embrace equality
 King's sermons reflected his religious fervor




2001 Black History Month articles

 Black history lessons -- Bringing a global experience to the classroom
 The Great Migration -- Senior citizens remember the mass exodus of Southern blacks to Northern cities in the early to mid-20th century
 Local activists -- They worked to integrate Sully's Pool in South Park
 Mt. Lebanon's past -- The practice of not selling homes to minorities is highlighted by Muhammad Ali's effort to buy in Virginia Manor

 Country music's blacklist -- Black artists still struggling to get a foot in the door
 Black History's caretaker -- An East Liverpool, Ohio, woman has spent years chronicling a culture's contributions
Asserting her ancestry -- A Washington resident says she's the great-great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings


2000 Black History Month articles

 Filmmaker Micheaux countered stereotypes of black America
 Hot month for history - PG columnist Tony Norman


1999 Black History Month articles

 Arthursville abolitionists ran Underground Railroad through Pittsburgh
 PSO timpanist drums out call for education
 A child's garden of African-American stories
 Camp founder Alma Illery wouldn't take no for an answer


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Kids' Corner 2000 articles


Black History Month Links

 African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
 African American Odyssey

 African American Perspectives

 African-American Women On-line Archival Collections -- Special Collections Library, Duke University
 African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
 America's Journey through Slavery
 Amistad Links

 Beginning Library Research on African American Studies
 Biography.com's Black History Month
 Black History Month Free Resources
 Black History in New Hampshire
 Black History Month at Infoplease
 Black History Month: Time for Kids
 Black History: National Civil Rights Museum

 Black Inventor Online Museum
 Black Facts Online

 Breaking Racial Barriers
 Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
 Census Facts on the Black/African American Population (.pdf)
 From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
 Gateway to African American History
 Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement

 Masachusetts Hall of Black Achievement
 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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PG Archives

 Internet African American History Challenge
 Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
 Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
 Kids Domain: Black History

 Martin Luther King Jr. papers project at Stanford University
 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
 Mississippi River of Song Moments in Black History: 365 Days of African American History
 NAACP
 National Civil Rights Museum
 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
 Negro League Baseball
 Oldest black church
 Preschool Black History Theme Activities for Teachers
 African American Heroes: The proud tradition of military achievements, valor and leadership
 Salute to Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
 The King Center
 Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Urban League

 
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