Black History Month: GALILEO resources

Romare and Nanette at the Neighborhood Arts Center. Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.

Ranging from the Civil Rights Digital Library to Community Art in Atlanta, GALILEO has pulled together a great collection of its resources to highlight video clips, timelines, historic photographs, biographies and articles relating to Black History Month.

For the full list, follow the link: GALILEO Resources for Black History Month

Black History Month: Monumental Speeches

We're starting off Black History Month one day early, by highlighting a series of powerful speeches in African American history.  Ranging from the historic words of Sojourner Truth up to the present day with President Barack Obama, this selection features speakers who through their bravery, charisma and conviction helped shape the course of American history and civil rights.

Speeches are available in audio, video and text forms.

Sojourner Truth
Speech: Ain't I a Woman? (1851)

Jackie Robinson "This I Believe..."

Frederick Douglass 
Speech: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? (1852)

W.E.B. Dubois
Speech: Niagra Movement Speech (1905)

Jackie Robinson
Speech: This I Believe... (no date)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech: I Have a Dream (1963)

Malcolm X
Speech: Speaking Out on Race (1964)

Shirley Chisolm
Speech: For the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)

Barack Obama
Speech: Inaugural Address (2008)