Black History Month: African Americans and Labor
Sat, Feb 01
|Location is TBD
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans, and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people.
Time & Location
Feb 01, 2025, 7:00 PM – Feb 28, 2025, 11:00 PM
Location is TBD
About the event
Put your request in today for a visit from a judge in February to commemorate:
“African Americans and Labor” (Grades 8-12)
"This is Thurgood Marshall" (Grades 3-12) an introduction to the man who became the first African-American to take the oath of office as a Supreme Court Justice on Oct 2, 1967. Students will learn about his work as a lawyer, and a leader of the civil rights movement. Students will learn how as a young child in Baltimore he gained interest in law and justice, and worked to ascend to the nation's highest court.