Don’t Miss Voices of Our People!
Celebrate African American History Month at the Richland Library and join us for Voices of Our People, an annual celebration of African American life, culture, art, and history. This event is a showcase of community talent featuring artists, singers, poets, dancers, and much more. Voices of Our People is being held at 4 library locations this year so don’t miss out!
When and where is the event taking place?
Richland Library, Sandhills – Thursday, February 7th – 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Richland Library, North Main – Saturday, February 9th – 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Richland Library, Main – Saturday, February 16th – 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Richland Library, Southeast – Monday, February 18th – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Take a look at what the library has on African American history.
Amazon Says: Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charti...
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Amazon Says: The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and p...
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Crystal J. Says: Say it Loud : Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity, Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Amazon Says: Say It Loud adds new depth to the oral and audio history of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights—focusing directly on the pivotal questions black America...
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Crystal J. Says: Life Upon these Shores : Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Amazon Says: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama...
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