{"id":35741,"date":"2023-02-16T01:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/displays-at-mancos-and-cortez-libraries-celebrate-black-history-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:26:41","slug":"displays-at-mancos-and-cortez-libraries-celebrate-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/displays-at-mancos-and-cortez-libraries-celebrate-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Displays at Mancos and Cortez libraries celebrate Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Black
Black History Month displays can be found in the Mancos and Cortez public libraries during February. (Roger Woody\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Public libraries in Mancos and Cortez are featuring displays through February in honor of Black History Month.<\/p>\n

Although the displays are presented in the libraries, the displays were put up by Gloria Thatch-Woody, an occupational therapist who lives and works in Mancos. She has installed the displays each year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Before COVID, Thatch-Woody put on Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration days at The Grange in Mancos where those in attendance would eat breakfast while she spoke about King. After COVID, Thatch-Woody began utilizing the libraries as a way to teach about Dr. King\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe display has Martin Luther King and a lot of what he said,\u201d Thatch-Woody noted.<\/p>\n

She says her displays include many different articles and other materials people can read and see. \u201cIt has some books, articles, things that I have collected over the years, and they are all about Black history in this country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Included among the resources is information on slavery, legislation written outlawing interracial marriage and the Black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.<\/p>\n

She said her copy of one of American sociologist, socialist, historian and civil rights activist William Dubois\u2019 book is included, and \u201cPeople can pick it up and look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cortez Public Library\u2019s display includes fewer resources than the Mancos display, but Thatch-Woody notes there are many resources there as well, including photos and other articles that can be viewed in the library\u2019s display case.<\/p>\n

Thatch-Woody said she received a note from one of the Mancos librarians recently letting her know many in the community are appreciating the display.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a note from the Mancos librarian,\u201d she said. \u201cShe said that a lot of people have been looking at the exhibit. The nice thing about it is you walk up to this long table and then Martin Luther King is up on a tripod; you can stand in front of it. They said they\u2019d gotten an excellent response to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cortez library is open Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m., but closes at 3 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Friday and Monday, and 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Mancos library is open Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. with closing times at 3 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

displays include multiple resources on Black history in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,638,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-library-and-museum","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83100,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35741\/revisions\/83100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35741"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}