African Americans and Labor: U.S. Black History Month 2025
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, recognizes the often invisible work of Black people throughout history. This Collection is full of resources to help you understand the theme, starting with content about slavery through to the great migration, the Jim Crow era, and contemporary issues around equality and incarceration.




13th
Ava DuVernay

All That She Carried
Tiya Miles

Dear Black Girl
Tamara Winfrey Harris

How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith

Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave
Douglass Frederick

The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander

The President and the Freedom Fighter
Brian Kilmeade

The Three Mothers
Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

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