Minnet som motstånd: Varför vi firar Black History Month

Minnet är motstånd. I det här avsnittet berättar Melissa Tousana om hur Black History Month växte fram – från Carter G. Woodsons vision till dagens firanden världen över – och varför berättelser som Benjamin Bradley och Mary Ellen Pleasant fortfarande formar vår framtid.

Om Black History Month och Carter G. Woodson

• ASALH – Association for the Study of African American Life and History (officiell organisation)
  👉 https://asalh.org

• Library of Congress – Carter G. Woodson and Negro History Week
  👉 https://www.loc.gov

• TIME Magazine – This Is How February Became Black History Month (1915, 1926, 1976)
  👉 https://time.com/4196014/black-history-month/

• BBC Explainer – What is Black History Month and why does the UK celebrate in October?
  👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-54522248

• Encyclopaedia Britannica – Black History Month (översikt)
  👉 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-History-Month
  
  

Citat & idéhistoria

• Arturo A. Schomburg (1925), The Negro Digs Up His Past – "The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future."
  👉 Tillgänglig via New York Public Library Archives
  
  

Benjamin Bradley (Boardley), den förslavade ingenjören

• Smithsonian Magazine – With Patents or Without, Black Inventors Reshaped American Industry
  👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/black-inventors-180967503/
  
  

• Interesting Engineering – Benjamin Bradley: The Enslaved Engineer Who Built a Steam Engine
  👉 https://interestingengineering.com/engineers-directory/benjamin-bradley
  
  

Mary Ellen Pleasant – "The Mother of Civil Rights in California"

• National Museum of African American History & Culture – Biografi
  👉 https://nmaahc.si.edu
  
  

• BlackPast.org – Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904)
  👉 https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/pleasant-mary-ellen-1814-1904/