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Black History Month: Books & eBooks

Books

Just a sampling from the library's book collection.

African American History Day by Day by Karen Juanita Carrillo
Call Number: E185 .C34 2012 Stacks
Life upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185 .G27 2011 Stacks
Still I Rise by Roland Laird; Taneshia Nash Laird; Elihu "Adofo" Bey
Call Number: E185 .L35 2009 Stacks
Living with Jim Crow by Leslie Brown; Anne Valk
Call Number: E185.61 .V35 2010 Stacks
The Cultural Rights Movement by Eric J. Bailey
Call Number: E185.615 .B26 2010 Stacks
Dark Days, Bright Nights by Peniel E. Joseph
Call Number: E185.615 .J677 2010 Stacks
The Dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen
Call Number: E185.97 .K5 H273 2003 Stacks
To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay
Call Number: E185.97 .W55 B39 2010 Stacks
Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era by Edward Countryman
Call Number: E269 .N3 C68 2012 Stacks
Guest of Honor by Deborah Davis
Call Number: E757 .D247 2012 Stacks
Nobody Turn Me Around by Charles Euchner
Call Number: F200 .E934 2010 Stacks
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
Publication Date: 2003

Databases

Depending on your topic, other databases will have suitable content as well. Be sure to seek help from a reference librarian if you need assistance.

Black Thought and Culture
Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans
American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.
Gale in Context: U.S. History
This resource provides full-text access to primary and secondary materials that cover some of the most widely studied topics in US history.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History
This collection provides full-text access covering current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as established scholarly work in the field.

eBooks

Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience by Jessie Carney Smith; Linda T. Wynn
The African American Almanac by Lean'tin Bracks; Jessie Carney Smith (Foreword by)
The Underground Railroad by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Ripples of Hope by Joshua Gottheimer
Black Against Empire by Waldo E. Martin; Joshua Bloom
Publication Date: 2013
Black Culture and the New Deal by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
ISBN: 9780807833124
Publication Date: 2009
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
Publication Date: 2003

Last Updated: Apr 7, 2021 8:07 AM
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Subjects: General/Multidisciplinary

Tags: aahm, african american culture, african americans, black history