Black History Month: 2020

ASALH Announces 2020 Black History Theme:
African Americans and the Vote

Article by Tafeni English, Director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center.

From Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center dedicated to providing resources to educators to promote social justice and anti-bias.
"Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month."

"The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society."
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