Robyn Williams
The library recently acquired several Berenstain Bears books at the request of a faculty member. These books, not only the topic of a famous "Mandela effect" regarding the authors' last name, are also some of the twentieth century's most famous children's literature. Through the adventures of Mother, Father, Brother, and Sister, many young children learn the values of the family dynamic. Jan would have been 101 years old today, with a birthday of July 26, 1923. Check out these children's classics from our library!
The Berenstain Bears Lend a Helping Hand by
The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room by
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing by
The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist by
''Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.'' - Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (1892)
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honors the victims of lynching. It opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama, with sculpture displays representing those individuals hung, tortured, and killed by extra-judicial mobs in post-Civil War America. It would not have been possible without the pioneering work of Ida B. Wells, a late nineteenth century journalist who watched the post-Reconstruction era United States devolve into lawlessness and revenge against the newly freed people. Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) campaigned for universal suffrage and the public acknowledgement of lynching as an extra-judicial way to exert control over the population. Her birthday is July 16.
