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1. Who was Octavia Butler? What was she known for? (Resources: Masterfile Main Edition or Gale Resources at https://www.bapl.org/research-learning/)

2. The man shown here was one of the most influential African-American leaders of the early 20th century. One of his books, The Souls of Black Folks, was a milestone work of both African-American literature and sociology. Who is he?

Resource: Look for his book in our catalog - https://bethlehem.chilipac.com/r1s/eg/opac/home

4. Her mother encouraged her to "jump at de' sun;" to never let being black and a woman stand in the way of her dreams. She became an author, anthropologist, and filmmaker and is best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Who is she?

Resource: Watch the biographical film, Jump at the Sun, on BAPL's streaming service, Kanopy - https://www.bapl.org/digital-collections/kanopy

4. Read at least one of the following poems. Which poems did you read?

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird

Mother to Son by Langston Hughes - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman - https://www.poetry.com/poem/60572/the-hill-we-climb

Oriflamme by Jessie Redmon Fauset - https://poets.org/poem/oriflamme

5. This decorated novelist has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award (1977), a Pulitzer Prize (1987), a Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1996), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012), and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction (2016). Her novel, Beloved, was made into a movie starring Oprah Winfrey. Who is she?

Resource: Look for her books in our catalog - https://bethlehem.chilipac.com/r1s/eg/opac/home

The people of Bethlehem continue to tell their own story. Watch at least one of the oral history interviews in the Black Bethlehem Project - https://lvehc-archive.lafayette.edu/s/welcome/page/black-bethlehem-project. Which interview did you watch?

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