This Day in Black History -- February 27

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 - April 8, 1993) displayed vocal talent as a child, but her family could not afford to pay for formal training. Members of her church congregation raised funds for her to attend a music school for a year, and in 1955 she became the first African American singer to perform as a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was an international star by 1939 when she was scheduled to perform to an integrated audience at the DAR's Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. The DAR refuse to let her perform. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR as a result and she and her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were successful in an effort to move the concert to the Lincoln Memorial. On Easter Sunday, 75,000 people showed up to the concert which was also broadcast to millions on radio stations around the country. This concert was an important milestone in the struggle for civil rights.



Read more about the great Marian Anderson with books from the Library's collections:

The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America. by Raymond Arsenault, c. 2009.

FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403

ML420.A6 A77 2009 

The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. by Russell Freedman, c. 2004.

FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403  

ML3930.A5 F73 2004

My Lord, what a morning : an autobiography by Marian Anderson, c. 2002. 

FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403  

ML420.A6 A3 2002 

Marian Anderson, a portrait by Kosti Vehanen. by Vehanen, Kosti 1887-1957, c. 1941.

FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403

ML420.A6V4

Coleman Library Named for Postman Alumnus

FAMU Library Was Named for Postman Alumnus
Please click on the link above to see the article in today's Tallahassee Democrat.

Historical Prints and Book Arts

    

Historical Prints & Book Arts

  The Coleman Library

   Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

  February 17-28 

  An exhibition of FAMU student’s work from the Bookmaking class of Professor Bowens-Saffo, including a presentation of the historical African American artist Hale Woodruff.   

THE BOOK ARTS EXHIBITION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

THE BOOK ARTS EXHIBITION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STUDENT

Christina Darville, Onyx Smith, Vivian Johnson, Allah Gore,
Shane Weavor, Scott Norfleet, Donovan Parisi, Demarion Presley,
Maya Lee Shae, Diamond Robinson, Amanda Stephens, Edwin Hargrett,
Djeri Harris, Edward Holmes, Chessington Marshall, Marquis Martin,
Bryon Sneed, and Gabrielle Watkins

This Day in Black History - February 24

Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler (February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician. On this day she became the African-American woman to graduate from medical school and the first female African-American physician in the United States. She married Dr. Arthur Crumpler after the Civil War. Her publication of A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883 was one of the first written by an African American about medicine.

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On this date in BLACK HISTORY: February 12

President Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, founded on this date in 1909. 

Check out these good reads via the University Libraries Catalog

“Abraham Lincoln : a legacy of freedom" by Clack, George; Friedman, Michael Jay
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo1328 (eBook)

“Abraham Lincoln, a biography” by Thomas, Benjamin Platt 1902-1956
FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY General Collection -- E457 .T427 195

“NAACP, a history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” by Kellogg, Charles Flint
FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403 -- E185.5.N276K4 v.1

Creating Black History Month

 

CARTER G. WOODSON born December 19th, 1875 was one of the first blacks to lobby schools and organizations to participate in a special program to encourage the study of African American History, which began on  February 1926 with Negro History Week. He started out with the intent to honor the birth months of Frederick Douglas and President Abraham Lincoln.  In 1976, the federal government acknowledged the expansion of Black History Week to Black History Month. 

Check out these good reads via the University Libraries Catalog:

“Carter G. Woodson : a life in Black history”  by Jacqueline Anne Goggin, 1953. An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web

“Carter G. Woodson : a bio-bibliography”  by Scally, M. Anthony (Mary Anthony) 1905- (Book) at the FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY, African-American Collection (Reference) - 4th Floor, Room 403 -- Z8983.4.S27 1985 

“Carter G. Woodson : a historical reader” by Woodson, Carter Godwin 1875-1950  (Book) at the FAMU COLEMAN LIBRARY, African-American Collection - 4th Floor, Room 403 --  E185 .W897 2000

New Journals

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature. This year they are publishing two new journals:

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. Volume 1 published in January with complimentary online access during the journal’s first year (until January 2015). The journal explores the application of statistical methods across all disciplines.

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Volume 1 publishes in March with complimentary online access during the journal’s first year (until March 2015).

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