February is Black History Month! This annual celebration shines a light on achievements by African Americans and is a time to recognize their central role in U.S. history.
Our book display this month highlights some of the materials in our collection related to black history. Below is a list of the items included on this display. These materials can be checked out by members of our community so if you see something you are interested in, contact [email protected].
Display and bibliography developed by Kelsey Schmidt and Steve Liska.
Black History Month Resources
A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. Jervis Anderson. E185.97.R27 A62 1973
The African-American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories. Kai Wright, editor. E184.6 .A37 2009
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. With the assistance of Alex Haley. BP223.Z8 L57 1992
Bayard Rustin: Troubles I’ve Seen: A Biography. Jervis Anderson. E185.97.R93 A53 1997
Becoming. Michelle Obama. E909.O24 A3 2018
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. Louis R. Harlan. E185.97.W4 H373 1983
The Briar Patch: The Trial of the Panther 21. Murray Kempton. KF224.B55 K384 1997
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick. E908 .R45 2010
Civil Rights Stories. Myriam E. Gilles & Risa L Goluboff, editors. KF4748 .C58 2008
Collected Essays. James Baldwin. PS3552.A45 A16 1998
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. Tomiko Brown-Nagin. KF4757 .B76 2011
The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. Clayborne Carson et al., general editors. E185.61 .E95 1991
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. John Hope Franklin & Alfred A. Moss. E185 .F723 1994
Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America. James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton. E185 .H643 2001
How to Be an Antiracist. Ibram X. Kendi. E184.A1 K344 2019
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss. Charles W. Eagles. LD3413 .E33 2009
Quest for Equality: The Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 1863-1954. Beverly Washington Jones. E185.97.T47 J65 1990
Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History. John Arthur. E185.615 .A79 2007
Race Matters. Cornel West. E185.615 .W47 1993
Ralph Bunche: An American Life. Brian Urquhart. E748.B885 U76 1993
Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers. J. Clay Smith Jr., editor. KF299.A35 R43 1998
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. James Melvin Washington, editor. E185.97.K5 A25 1991
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Juan Williams. KF8745.M34 W55 1998
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement. Jon Meacham, editor. E185.61 .V63 2001
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. David Levering Lewis. E185.97.D73 L48 1993
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy. Ta-Nehisi Coates. E185.615 .C633 2018
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Vicki L. Crawford et al, editors. E185.61 .W83 1993