February is National Black History Month and Tulsa City-County Library has a few databases to assist families in learning about and celebrating the experience and history of African Americans. The Black experience is all about culture, history, and people. For culture and history, students may wish to browse the following databases: African American Experience, Black Freedom Struggle, and Black Life in America. For students wanting to focus on the people that make up African American culture, Biography in Context and African American Heritage will suit them well.
- To get you started, eLibrary has a resource guide that is packed full of resources about Black History Month.
- African American Experience explores history and culture of Black people throughout periods of America.
- Similarly, the database Black Freedom Struggle focuses on time periods throughout the struggle for black freedom.
- Black Life in America showcases the Black experience as portrayed by news sources. Topics are organized by time period and topic, making it easier and more accessible to search.
For those seeking biographies of famous Black people of various fields, students can use Biography in Context, a database that houses over 500 biographies of Black men and women. Black families and children may wish to utilize our African American Heritage database to explore their own heritage and family history.
- Courtney Helm, Youth Associate, Broken Arrow Library