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Black History Month movie: Harriet
13+
Saturday, 2/15 | 6–8 p.m.
801 Grant Ave., Louisville
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 Celebrate Black History Month
Each year Black History Month has a different theme. This year's theme is “African Americans and Labor.” According to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, it “focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Indeed, work is at the very center of much of Black history and culture. Be it the traditional agricultural labor of enslaved Africans that fed Low Country colonies, debates among Black educators on the importance of vocational training, self-help strategies and entrepreneurship in Black communities, or organized labor’s role in fighting both economic and social injustice, Black people’s work has been transformational throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora. The 2025 Black History Month theme, ‘African Americans and Labor,’ sets out to highlight and celebrate the potent impact of this work.”
Join the Historical Museum this month for a free screening of the movie Harriet about Harriet Tubman starring Cynthia Erivo, details below.
Did you know that Louisville has a unique connection to the theme of African Americans and labor? William Lofton was a Black coal miner in Louisville, who, like many poor Louisville coalminers, was dissatisfied with unsafe conditions and meager pay for workers. What made Lofton unique was his drive to change things for the better, becoming a labor activist and organizer. Learn more by reading "Labor Activist William Lofton" in The Louisville Historian (Winter 2021).
Or to learn more about labor history in the Black community, check out these reading lists put together by the Louisville Public Library: Adult Reading List, Teen Reading List, Children's Reading List.
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Learn about Harriet Tubman in this free movie screening event
In honor of Black History Month, the Louisville Historical Museum is presenting a special showing of the 2019 movie Harriet starring Wicked's Cynthia Erivo with Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle Monae. The movie tells the incredible true story of one of America's greatest heroes, Harriet Tubman, from her escape from slavery to the dangerous missions she led, setting free hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad. This movie is rated PG-13 and will be shown at the Louisville Center for the Arts on Feb. 15, at 6 p.m.
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“When the Boys Were Away: Louisville in Vietnam, Pt. II” new article and exhibit
In the last edition of The Louisville Historian, The Boys Who Went to War: Louisville and the Vietnam War, Part I, we wrote about the experience of Louisville men who served during the Vietnam War. The upcoming issue, which will be mailed in late February, focuses on the experience of folks on the home front, the experience of service members returning to Louisville, and the long-term impacts of the war on Louisville and Boulder County. The front window exhibit will also be updated to reflect this new perspective.
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Membership
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We love our members! Members can renew online, via mail, or in person. As a reminder, if paying by check, please make your membership check out to the Louisville Historical Museum and remember to make any monetary donations separately to the Louisville History Foundation. Thank you for your support!
Not a member yet? Join today with the perfect membership type for you. The Historical Museum offers individual, family, and business memberships, as well as gift memberships so that you can give someone who loves Louisville and history full access to all that the Museum has to offer.
Museum members receive the Louisville Historian in the mail four times each year. You can also make a donation directly to the Louisville History Foundation to support the work the Museum does and special projects.
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 Historic Photo Feature
If you have football on the brain, we can hardly blame you with the Super Bowl coming up!
And you wouldn't be alone in history; Louisville has been crazy about football for about as long as anyone can remember, with references to "a very good team" in Louisville starting as early as 1902 in the Boulder Daily Camera.
Whichever team you're rooting for during Super Bowl LIX, we hope their plays are as well orchestrated as this very natural, definitely unposed, shot of Louisville footballers from 1961! 😉
These handsome Super Bowl almost drafts are left to right: Don Lawley, John Heath, Dale Eberharter, and Duane Elrod.
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