The Alachua County Library District will play a primary role in celebrating Black History Month locally.
Black History Month is recognized annually in February to honor outstanding contributions Blacks have made to American history and culture.
This is Native American History month. Native American history and African American history are often distorted by Hollywood, and history that doesn’t fit the American narrative is frequently glossed over.
As Europeans sought to control newly settled American land, wars raged between Native Americans and the frontiersmen who encroached on their territory, resources and trade.