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The BPL Customer Services Team Celebrates Black History Month
Take a look at what The BPL’s Customer Services Team has put together for Black History Month:
Bridgeport’s history is Black – The Bridgeport Cultural Arts Center 1970 – 1986
From the city’s founding up into the present day, this has been a simple truth.
This Black History Month the Bridgeport History Center is featuring a different collection from our holdings each week.
This week we are highlighting the The Bridgeport Cultural Arts Center.
In October of 2019 until the pandemic hit in March 2020, the Bridgeport History Center was fortunate enough to host an exhibition about the Bridgeport Cultural Arts Center, including art from Arts Center alumni, an oral history collection with interviews of past students and teachers, and wall panels that offered a concise history of this institution. While the exhibition is over, it can be
explored in full on online: View exhibit
Free Tax Help Assistance info from the BPL’s North Branch Library
There is a lot of detail here so first and foremost:
Bridgeport’s history is Black – The 1982/83 AAEA: Oral History Project
From the city’s founding up into the present day, this has been a simple truth.
This Black History Month the Bridgeport History Center is featuring a different collection from our holdings each week.
This week we are highlighting the History Center’s records of The Afro-American Educators Association: Oral History Project.
Bridgeport’s history is Black – Charles Tisdale
From the city’s founding up into the present day, this has been a simple truth.
This Black History Month the Bridgeport History Center is featuring a different collection from our holdings each week.
This week we are highlighting the History Center’s records from Charles Tisdale’s 1976 congressional campaign as well as the story of his 1983 mayoral race.
A BPL CELEBRATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15th, 1929. He was a pivotal advocate for African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
King experienced racism from an early age, and those events stayed with and eventually brought him to a life of activism. After graduating college with a doctorate degree in theology, King became a pastor in Alabama. He began a series of peaceful protests in the south that eventually changed many laws dealing with the equality of African Americans. King gave hundreds of moving speeches across the country, and in 1964 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
A Message from the City Librarian
We are pleased to announce that our North Branch, Black Rock Branch and East Side Branch Libraries have resumed limited services, offering up to one hour of computer access, photocopying and faxing services by appointment in addition to our ongoing Quick Pick-Up service.
