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Minnet är motstånd. I det här avsnittet berättar Melissa Tousana om hur Black History Month växte fram – från Carter G. Woodsons vision till dagens firanden världen över – och varför berättelser som Benjamin Bradley och Mary Ellen Pleasant fortfarande formar vår framtid. Om Black History Month och Carter G. Woodson • ASALH – Association for the Study of African American Life and History (officiell organisation) 👉 asalh.org • Library of Congress – Carter G. Woodson and Negro History Week 👉 loc.gov • TIME Magazine – This Is How February Became Black History Month (1915, 1926, 1976) 👉 time.com/4196014/black-history-month/ • BBC Explainer – What is Black History Month and why does the UK celebrate in October? 👉 bbc.com/news/explainers-54522248 • Encyclopaedia Britannica – Black History Month (översikt) 👉 britannica.com/topic/Black-History-Month Citat & idéhistoria • Arturo A. Schomburg (1925), The Negro Digs Up His Past – "The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future." 👉 Tillgänglig via New York Public Library Archives Benjamin Bradley (Boardley), den förslavade ingenjören • Smithsonian Magazine – With Patents or Without, Black Inventors Reshaped American Industry 👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/black-inventors-180967503/ • Interesting Engineering – Benjamin Bradley: The Enslaved Engineer Who Built a Steam Engine 👉 interestingengineering.com/engineers-directory/benjamin-bradley Mary Ellen Pleasant – "The Mother of Civil Rights in California" • National Museum of African American History & Culture – Biografi 👉 nmaahc.si.edu • BlackPast.org – Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) 👉 blackpast.org/african-american-history/pleasant-mary-ellen-1814-1904/