{"id":10468,"date":"2017-02-05T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/library\/?p=10468"},"modified":"2017-02-16T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:29:03","slug":"celebrate-black-history-month-with-new-resources-from-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/library\/2017\/02\/05\/celebrate-black-history-month-with-new-resources-from-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Black History Month with New Resources from Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-collections.library.utc.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/p16877coll20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black United Front<\/em> Newsletters digital collection<\/a> documents the Black Power movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee \u00a0from 1969 to 1971. The publication, edited by community organizer Ralph Moore, features news reports, editorials, poetry, and artwork, preserving Chattanooga&#8217;s African American voices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10470\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-newsletter-large wp-image-10470\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-580x825.jpg\" alt=\"My Thought, a by Molapa Mphadi published in the April 25, 1970 issue of the Black United Front newsletter.\" width=\"580\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-580x825.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-610x868.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-141x200.jpg 141w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought-281x400.jpg 281w, https:\/\/blog.utc.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/02\/my-thought.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>My Thought<\/em>, a by Molapa Mphadi published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-collections.library.utc.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p16877coll20\/id\/16\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 1970 issue of the Black United Front<\/a> newsletter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The newsletters include powerful language and imagery that preserves African American voices of the early Post-Civil Rights era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black United Front Newsletters digital collection documents the Black Power movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee \u00a0from 1969 to 1971. 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