Featured new additions to our print collection:
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Featured new additions to our ebook collections:
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Racial Justice At Work: Practical Solutions for System Change by Mary-Frances Winters | Access via O'Reilly
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CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1001) and Core 2 (220-1002) Exam Cram by David L. Prowse | Access via O'Reilly
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How to Engage in Difficult Conversations on Identity, Race, and Politics in Higher Education by Tammy Hodo et. al | Access via Taylor & Francis
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How to access: To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu. Oxford Scholarship Online, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available automatically while connected to the RHEC network. |
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Featured Resource:
HistoryMakers Digital Archive
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The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an easy-to-use online oral history database featuring thousands of interviews from African Americans distinguished in the fields of science, culture, politics, the arts, and public life. This resource provides high-quality video content, fully searchable transcripts, and unique content from individuals whose life stories would have been lost were it not for the HistoryMakers.
How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access.
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This Month's Display:
Black History Month
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The library is celebrating February as Black History Month by displaying books in our collection that highlight the accomplishments and history of African-Americans. The display features biographies, memoirs, non-fiction narratives, graphic novels, and more.
Stop by this month to check out the impressive collection!
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Special Event:
"Celebrating Gainsboro" Presentation
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“Celebrating Gainsboro,” a presentation about Roanoke, Virginia’s Historic Gainsboro neighborhood, will be hosted at the Roanoke Higher Education Center on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in honor of Black History Month. The presentation is sponsored by the Roanoke Higher Education Center, Virginia Tech Roanoke Center, and Roanoke Public Libraries. The event is free, open to the public, and will include presentations from three speakers on their roles in preserving and sharing Gainsboro’s rich history.
The Gainsboro neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia was once a thriving business and entertainment district for African Americans. The original 1835 settlement of “Gainesborough” became a vibrant center of Black culture and business, bustling at one point with over 200 African American-owned businesses. Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux had ties to Gainsboro, along with other Black historical figures such as civil rights attorney Oliver Hill and educator Lucy Addison.
Want to learn more? Join us for this presentation, and then check out these additional resources to learn about Gainsboro's history and African American history in Roanoke.
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by Jeanne Theoharis
(E185.61.T44 2018)
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." - James Baldwin, "A Talk to Teachers" (1963)
The civil rights movement of the 1960s is now lauded and enshrined in national legend, cited by contemporaries from Obama to Trump as proof of American exceptionalism. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Theoharis argues that the civil rights movement has been memorialized and diluted to an "American Fable," whitewashed to make America's vicious history less uncomfortable to confront. This book dissects the myths often surrounding the movement, such as Rosa Parks being painted as a demure, accidental heroine, when in reality she was a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical.
Theoharis goes further to analyze our current idealization of the civil rights movement to the treatment of contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter. Leaders of the civil rights movement are often spoken of as apolitical heroes who pushed for justice passively when in reality the movement was deeply unpopular, disruptive, and feared by the government. However, critics of BLM compare current activists unfavorably to leaders of the civil rights movement, both as chastisement and as a way to diminish their fight for justice.
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