Focusing on the theme of Black Resistance, the UConn Library has several ways you can join our celebration of Black History Month.
Exhibition - Disorder in the Night: Narratives of Black Resistance, 1723-2023
February 1-28, 2023
Located in multiple locations including:
Homer Babbidge Library Plaza
Avery Point Campus Library
Hartford Campus Library
Waterbury Campus Library
Stamford Campus Library
Disorder in the Night explores the Black resistance in its various forms, from the period of enslavement to the present. Organized by three broad themes: everyday subversions – small acts of resistance taken in everyday life or daily activities; cultural revolution – the use of creative expression through media or the arts to create social, political, or cultural change; and collective action – the power of people and the use of cooperative organizing or mass mobilization throughout history.
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Event - Film Screening - Rosewood (1997)
This blockbuster film is the cinematic retelling of the true-life destruction of an African American community in 1923. It Jim Crow-era violence and the Black radical tradition of resistance.
February 21, 6:00-8:30pm
Homer Babbidge Library
Class of 1947 & Virtual
Free! Registration required
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Event - Discussion: Rosewood Film & History
with Mrs. Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, Founder & President of the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc. and Rosewood descendant.
February 22, 6:00-7:30pm
Virtual only
Free! Registration required
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Event - Black History Month Closing Ceremony
We are a proud co-sponsor of African American Cultural Center's Black History Month Closing Ceremony with a keynote address by Dr. Rik Stevenson, a professor of African American Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Stevenson's research examines Black resistance in the Middle Passage.
February 27, 6:00pm
Student Union Ballroom
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Resources to learn more including research guides and featured collections on our website.
For more information, contact: Stephanie Birch at Stephanie.Birch@uconn.edu