The display features a Black History Month poster, a wall sign that says "Celebrating Black History Month," and a large whiteboard with a question written to ask, "Who's your biggest inspiration during Black History Month?" Two display shelves contain 26 books across the tops of the book cases and 3 interior shelves each. The books arranged with their covers facing out.
The Black History Month poster is black with 2 hearts layered in red, yellow, and green colors, 2 circles with red, yellow, and green rings, and a banner with red, yellow, and green triangular flags. It's set up on a wooden stool, and there are black and white photos of Andrew Young, Shirley Chisholm, and Ida B. Wells on stands in front of the poster.
Books in the left display shelf are The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; The Slave Ship: A Human History; We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance; Traders in Men; The Accomplices Wore Robes; and Shifting the Color Line. On top of the shelf are black and white photos of W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Books in the display shelf on the right include Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow; When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir; Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America; Heavy: An American Memoir; After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina; The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African Culinary History in the Old South; and New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement. On top of the shelf are black and white photos of Mary Jackson, James Baldwin, and Frederick Douglass.
Happy Black History Month from MCC Libraries! Visit our display in the LeRoy V. Good Library and check out some books which celebrate the beauty of diversity and honor the richness of Black heritage. #MCCLibraries #BlackHistoryMonth