Lone Star College-University Park Student Learning Resource Center presents – A Tribute to the “Unsung Heroes of the Struggle”

1. BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Lone Star College-University Park Student Learning Resource Center presents –
A Tribute to the “Unsung Heroes of the Struggle”
Background image: display depicting the Mexico Olympic protest at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Via Reuters.

2. Destini’s Brother
[Mass Incarceration]
13 year old Destini Riley's Sept 19, 2013, statement for Mayor Bell and The Durham's City Council, in defense of her brother
Carlos:
[VIDEO]

3. The Green Books
[Jim Crow]
The Libraries Stories Project, New York Public Library
“…The books are a travel guide series for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era with detailed listings about
businesses that African Americans could feel safe using while traveling. …”
[VIDEO]

4. Katherine Johnson
[Hidden Figures]
• Rocket Science! (A Paper)
“Remember that time we sent the first American into space? You should thank black mathematician and NASA
genius Katherine Johnson for that.”
[VIDEO]

5. Behold the Dreamers
[Novel, African Immigrants]
“Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel, "Behold the Dreamers," is the story of one immigrant family from Cameroon whose fates
collide with the collapse of financial markets in 2009. ... Here she discusses the illusion of the American Dream and her
personal inspiration … with veteran journalist Lola Ogunnaike.”
[VIDEO]

6. Mildred & Richard Loving
[Loving v. Virginia] Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture
“According to the 1924 Virginia Act to Preserve Racial Integrity, only minorities can marry one another. But
based on the United States Constitution, this policy violated the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses
of the 14th Amendment, which ultimately helped the Lovings win their case.”
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7. Wyatt T. Walker
“He tried to check out a…book… He got jailed instead.”
The Washington Post
[LINK – CLICK FOR SITE]

8. Black Ballots MixTape
Speeches on Voting
Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division – Schomburg Center
[LINK – CLICK FOR SITE]

9. Bibliography
Video
 Destini’s Brother – NY Times
https://youtu.be/Z_qnnjuAQNU
 The Green Books – NY Public Libraries
Stories Project
https://youtu.be/X2C_RcFc58A
 Hidden Figures – Katherine Johnson
https://youtu.be/-2gCsxUGkNs
 Behold the Dreamers
https://youtu.be/dC7SU-H_Cv4
Articles, Papers, Audio
 “How a museum reckons with black pain”
(The Atlantic)
Articles, Papers, Audio (Con’t)
 “Woodson's 'The Beginning of
Miscegenation of the Whites & Blacks” by
Ralph Ellison
 Wyatt T. Walker : “He tried to check out a
Robert E. Lee book from the library. He got
jailed instead.” (Washington Post)
 NASA Archive
 Technical Note D-233 by T. H. Skopinski
and Katherine G. Johnson (pdf)
 Black Ballots MixTape - NYPL
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/11/07/sch
omburg-playlist-blackballots
Created by
Reference Librarian
John Powell