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 This year’s engagement calendar spotlights African Americans whose lives have brought change to America through public service, innovative thinking, musical genius, and other means. With fifty-three historical photographs and artworks accompanied by biographical essays, each week honors an individual or a group that has worked for change—abolitionist John Brown, singer Mahalia Jackson, explorer Matthew Henson, black American nurses of World War II, boxers Jack Johnson and Tut Jackson, and more. An important birth date or milestone in black history is listed for each day. Also included: full-page 2010 and 2011 yearly grids, a list of international holidays, and a page for notes.
With images from the Library of Congress. Size: 6 5/8 x 8 in.; 112 pages; Wire-O bound. ISBN 978-0-7649-4809-1.
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| Topics for 365 Days of Black HistoryTwenty of the more than fifty topics: African-American ambulance drivers, Freedom House (Pennsylvania), 1969–1975; Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975), spiritual leader, Nation of Islam;
Levi Coffin (1798–1877), “President of the Underground Railroad”;
James Farmer (1920–1999), civil rights leader;
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), civil rights worker;
Group of Grand Lodge of Masons (1897), the Black Masons;
Emmitt Till (1941–1955) and his mother, Mamie Bradley (1921–2003);
Asa Phillip Randolph (1889–1979) and the Pullman Porter’s Union;
Daisy Bates (1912–1999) and the Little Rock Nine;
Group of children from the Model School of Fisk University;
J. W. Rosenwald (1862–1932), president of Sears, Roebuck and Company;
Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), artist;
Angela Davis (b. 1944), civil rights activist and professor;
Claude McKay (1889–1948), writer;
Paul Robeson (1898–1976), athlete, actor, singer, activist;
Josephine Baker (1906–1976), performer;
Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first black military airmen;
Oberlin Rescuers, abolitionists;
Hampton Institute; and
Women of the Nation of Islam.
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