Library Exhibit Celebrates Black History Month

The Ursula C. Schwerin Library of New York City College of Technology is hosting three exhibits that are part of the College’s celebration of Black History Month.
“Go Black, Go Green:  Protecting Our Communities, Saving Our Planet” is in the outside showcase.  Showing how the African-American community deals with such vital topics as conservation and recycling, the display highlights Black environmental heroes from George Washington Carver to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai.  Part of the exhibit focuses on the Central Brooklyn Project Green initiative.  Faculty members from the African-American Studies Department mounted this colorful display.
The interior exhibit cases present the “Third Annual Quilting Project”.  These are student final presentations from the Black Women in Literature course (AFR 2250), taught by Prof. Marta Effinger-Crichlow.  The course highlights women’s narratives.  Prof. Effinger-Crichlow mounted these vivid quilts.
Finally, another inside exhibit case features “Blacks in the House”, with photographs of African-Americans who are serving in the Obama administration as cabinet secretaries, advisers and members of Congress.  This exhibit was mounted by Mr. Al Vargas.
These exhibits will be on display during the entire month of February.  They can be viewed when the Library is open:  Mondays-Thursdays (9:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.), Fridays (9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.), and Saturdays (10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.).  For further information please contact Prof. Morris Hounion, Exhibits coordinator (mhounion@citytech.cuny.edu ).