February is designated as National African American History Month in the U.S. The intent is to celebrate the contributions African Americans have made to American history in their struggle to achieve equality, freedom, and civil rights. Around the nation, museums, archives, libraries, academic institutions, churches, and other organizations sponsor events and host speakers. This subject guide provides information and resources available through the UWSP Libraries.
This years theme highlights the profound ways Black workers—whether free or unfree, skilled or unskilled, vocational or voluntary—have shaped history, culture, and social change. From the agricultural labor of enslaved Africans to Black educators’ debates on vocational training, from entrepreneurship to labor organizing, the work of African Americans has been transformational.
