February is Black History month. This week the library display features literature written by and about African Americans.
African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a collection from the New York Public Library that "access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920."
Langston Hughes was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Yale University's library special collections has audio clips as well as other items in their online collection of Hughes' works.
During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 collected slave stories which "contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves." Visit Born in Slavery to see a unique view of history.
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