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African American History Month Toggle navigation Home| Exhibits and Collections| Audio and Video| For Teachers| Images| About| February is African American 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 wronging to unzip full citizenship in American society. ReadIncreasingly»TowersBlack History Read well-nigh the Library of Congress's partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture to bring a newly-found treasure of African-American history to light. Plus: finding exploring family histories, triumphal Frederick Douglass' birthday, hearing the voices of slavery online, and more. Download PDF (3.8MB) Image credit: Library of Congress Magazine, January/February 2018. National Museum of African American History and Culture The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, pursuit decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has placid increasingly than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have wilt lease members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Explore the Museum » Image credit: Photograph by Alan Karchmer for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Telling All Americans' Stories: African American Heritage In order to understand our nation's history, it is vital to understand how this has shaped the African American experience. Find these stories—from escaped slaves and abolitionists, to soldiers, intellectuals, and merchantry entrepreneurs—preserved in our national parks and historic places. View the onlineHodgepodge» Image Credit: [District of Columbia. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln] (National Park Service) Veterans History African Americans serving in the military service throughout U.S. history have often fought on two fronts: fighting the very enemy and fighting a system of segregation and exclusion. Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) The Tuskegee Airmen (National Park Service) Image credit: Terona Chivers 1st Squad 3rd Platoon Grenadiers. (Library of Congress) For Teachers Put the power of primary sources to work in the classroom. Browse ready-to-use lesson plans, student activities, hodgepodge guides and research aids. Educational Resources » Image credit: "Frederick Douglass well-flavored to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist Negroes," mural by William Edouard Scott, at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C. (Library of Congress) 2018 Event HighlightsTypesettingTalk February 6 Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young AmericaThomas Jefferson fathered three daughters, two white and one black. In her typesetting Jefferson's Daughters, history professor Catherine Kerrison discusses the fascinating lives of these three very variegated women. Livestreaming on YouTube (National Archives) Special Document Display February 17 - 19 Emancipation ProclamationDon't miss this rare opportunity to see the original Emancipation Proclamation. You can moreover stop by the ReSource Room with your family to learn increasingly well-nigh this important document through hands-on discovery. (National Archives) Brown Bag Lecture February 19 Brown Bag Lecture at the Wilson Center: History of PlaceThis presentation is well-nigh an African American settlement originated in Washington, D.C., right without the Civil War in 1867. Approximately 40,000 African American refugees came into Washington, D.C., during the Civil War era. (Smithsonian Institution) Symposium February 23 1619 and the Making of America1619 was a pivotal year in the establishment of the first permanent English Colony in North America. It was the year of the first representative legislative turnout in the New World as well as the inrush of the first recorded Africans to English North America. (John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress) Ongoing Exhibition Ongoing City of Hope: Resurrection City & the 1968 Poor People’s CampaignThe museum commemorates the fiftieth year-end Martin Luther King Jr.'s death with a special exhibition devoted to his final and most would-be dream, the Poor People's Campaign. The exhibition is presented by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. (National Museum of American History) Other Events Library of Congress Calendar National Archives Calendar Smithsonian Institution Calendar National Gallery of Art Calendar National Museum of African American History and Culture Calendar National Park Service Brought to you by: Background image: [Members of the Army Air Force 332nd Fighter Group in a rundown room, Ramitelli, Italy] Library of Congress This Site Hosted by The Library of Congress | Legal | USA.gov