網站讓更多人了解到非裔美國人的歷史及當中不為人知的人物

Professor Matthew Delmont decided a few years ago that he wanted to change how he teaches

African American history.

馬修 德爾蒙特教授多年前決定，要改變他教授非裔美國人歷史的方式。

Delmont teaches at Dartmouth College in the state of New Hampshire.

德爾蒙特任任教于新罕布什爾州的達特茅斯學院。

At first, Delmont turned to Twitter. There, he shared stories of the everyday lives of African Americans he read about in black newspapers.

起初，他轉而使用推特，將自己在黑人報紙上讀到的關于非洲裔美國人日常生活的故事，分享到推特上。

That project expanded in November to become the website Black Quotidian. There, readers will find life stories of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers. The stories appeared in publications between the early 1900s and the 1980s.

該項目在11月得到擴展，成立了網站——Black Quotidian(非裔日常故事）。讀者可以在網站上瀏覽關于非裔美國人的生活故事，這些故事來自20世紀初到80年代的黑人報紙出版物中。

The website contains copies of stories from more than 10 black newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier. It also has audio recordings, pictures and videos.

網站收錄超過10家黑人報紙的報道，當中包括芝加哥衛(wèi)報（Chicago Defender），匹茲堡信使（Pittsburgh Courier）等。還收錄了錄音、圖片和視頻報道。

"l felt like my students were coming away from the class only thinking African American history was about these civil right(s) marches or about martyrs," Delmont said.

德爾蒙特說：“學生下課后僅僅將非裔美國人的歷史和民權游行或烈士聯(lián)系在一起。”

"I felt like they spent so much time thinking about black death that they were losing sight of the broader complexity, really the beautiful aspects of African American history."

“他們花了太多時間思考黑死病問題，以至于忽略了更廣泛的復雜性，那才是非裔美國人歷史中最美麗的一面。”

The website shows African Americans who made their mark in sports, politics, the military and other areas. Among them are icons like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activist Rosa Parks. But Delmont also aims to bring attention to lesser known people.

該網站展示了在體育、政治、軍事和其他領域留下印記的非裔美國人。其中包括不少和馬丁·路德·金博士和民權活動家羅莎 帕克斯一樣的象征性代表。

One of them is Juanita Blocker. She was the first black member of the Professional Women's Bowling Association. She wrote about bowling in the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper for 20 years.

胡安妮塔 布洛克爾也是其中之一。她是職業(yè)女子保齡球協(xié)會的第一位非裔會員，并為《洛杉磯哨兵報》（Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper）寫了20年與保齡球相關的文章。

The website also tells about Claudette Colvin of Montgomery, Alabama. As a 15-year-old, she refused to give up her seat on a bus – nine months before Rosa Parks did the same.

該網站還講述了阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利的克勞德特·科爾文的故事。15歲時，她就在公共汽車上拒絕讓座，這比羅莎·帕克斯早了9個月。

Delmont said, "These iconic figures are important but we need to understand the everyday people doing important things in their community." He added that he has observed a growing interest in rediscovering overlooked African Americans.

德爾蒙特說：“這些象征人物非常重要，但我們更需要了解那些在各自的社區(qū)中做著重要事情的人們?！?/p>

他還說，他注意到人們對重新發(fā)現(xiàn)被忽視的非洲裔美國人越來越感興趣。

Delmont said he hopes the website brings attention to black newspapers. He said the publications were especially important for African American communities that had recently migrated north. The newspapers described people's daily lives. They provided news of everything from politics to sports to weddings.

他希望這個網站能引起人們對黑人報紙的注意。而這些出版物對最近遷移到北方的非裔美國人社區(qū)尤其重要。

Ethan Michaeli worked for the Chicago Defender and wrote a book about the newspaper. He said Delmont's website is offering a fresh look at the role these newspapers played in black communities. Many of the papers included on the website have closed or no longer print newspapers. 伊森·米夏埃利曾為《芝加哥后衛(wèi)報》工作，并寫過一本關于該報的書。他說，德爾蒙特的網站重新審視了這些報紙在黑人社區(qū)中所扮演的角色。網站上的報紙大多已經關閉或不再印刷了。

Michaeli said, "I'm very excited about it as kind of serving as the bridge between the past and the present in this way.”

伊森·米夏埃利說：“我非常高興，它能以這種方式作為連結過去和現(xiàn)在的橋梁?！?/p>