Sexual Assault Awareness Month has existed officially since 2001, but the history of advocacy for victims of sexual assault is much more extensive. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) accredits the roots of this kind of advocacy in the United States to the Black women and women of color who spearheaded the Civil Rights Read More …
Did you know that only 30 out of the 93 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction have been women? The Nobel Prize for Literature has an even more disparaging history: only 16 of the 117 laureates have been women! An important part of celebrating women’s history is recognizing these wonderful women who have beaten Read More …
The glorious tradition which we know to be “Black History Month” actually stemmed from a single celebration. According to the ASALH, a man named Carter G. Woodson attended a 50th-anniversary celebration of emancipation, and this inspired him to push for the creation of “Negro History Week” in 1926. This week also occurred every February, as Read More …
Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! This month, Emory Libraries is celebrating the experiences and histories of Black queer folks. Too often, the queer experience is reduced to the histories of white, cisgender men, leaving out other voices. The resources we have highlighted for this month, divided into Individual and Personal Perspectives and Academic and Ethnographic Perspectives, Read More …
There are currently more than 60 million Americans living in the U.S. who identify as being of Hispanic heritage, and over 20 countries are represented within this population that makes up the largest ethnic minority in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census! As a way to commemorate the contributions of Hispanic-Americans living in the Read More …
Oxford College Library is excited to join together with Emory Libraries to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month. Read More …
