2025 BPL Black History Month Spotlight: Southside Branch Library

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The Birmingham Public Library PR Department is doing spotlights on Black History Month programs happening at our libraries across the city during February. 

Our second spotlight is on Southside Branch Library, 118 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205. Phone (205) 933-7776

Black History Month 2025 at Southside Branch Library will celebrate the impact of labor – free, unfree, skilled, unskilled - from African Americans.

Here is a listing of activities and programs happening throughout February at the Southside Branch:

 • An interactive (QR Code) display that allows you to learn about African American artists whose works captured the story of Black life in America. (All month long) 




 * Reel Deal: Black History at the Movies, Wednesday, February 12, 1:00 p.m.

Join the Southside Film Club and let's chat up popular movies highlighting Black culture. This is an opportunity to enlighten the rich African-American culture through the film industry.


Jacob Lawrence, African-American painter.

 • Grab N’ Go creativity kits featuring African American artist Jacob Lawrence. (week of Monday, February 24-Friday, February 28) 

Click here to read about Jacob Lawrence available at BPL and JCLC locations. 

A. Phillip Randolph, African-American labor unionist and civil rights activist.


 • A documentary about A. Philip Randolph, Tuesday, February 25

A. Philip Randolph was an African American labor unionist and civil rights activist. He founded the nation's first Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925. Randolph was one of the principle organizers of Dr. Martin Luther King's National March on Washington in 1963.


By Roy L. Williams, PR Director|Birmingham Public Library
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