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A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry
Non-Fiction, 305.48896. Two award-winning history professors and authors focus on the stories of African-American women slaves, civilians, religious leaders, artists, queer icons, activists and criminals in a celebration of Black womanhood that demonstrates its indelible role in shaping America.
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by David J. Dennis
New Non-Fiction, 305.896073 D423M. Pivoting between the voices of a father and son, this unique work of oral history and memoir chronicles the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter, that, taken together, paint a critical portrait of America.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
by Henry Louis Gates
Non-Fiction, 305.896073. A companion to the six-part documentary of the same name chronicles 500 years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events while tracing the significant influence of eminent historical figures.
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
by Christopher J Lebron
Non-Fiction, 305.896073. Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of Black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Drawing on the work of revolutionary Black public intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-Black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem.
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Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
by Oprah Winfrey
New Non-Fiction, 305.896073 L626. Presenting interviews with 50 of the oldest generation of Black Americans, including civil rights activists, hometown heroes, celebrities and many others, this testament to the strength and stories behind these individuals reveals their lives, experiences and wisdom that can carry all of us to a better future.
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
by Kate Masur
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But claiming the equal-rights promises of the Declaration and the Constitution, a biracial movement arose to fight these racist state laws. Kate Masur's magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Its advocates battled in state legislatures, Congress, and the courts, and through petitioning, party politics and elections. They visited slave states to challenge local laws that imprisoned free blacks and sold them into slavery. Despite immovable white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, their vision became increasingly mainstream. After the Civil War, their arguments shaped the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, the pillars of our second founding.
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NAACP: Celebrating a Century; 100 Years in Pictures
by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Enhanced by hundreds of photographs, chronicles the one-hundred-year history of America's oldest, largest, and most important civil rights organization.
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by Thomas E. Ricks
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 R426W. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter offers a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today, narrating its triumphs and defeats and highlighting lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool.
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by Curtis Bunn
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 SA99. Combining journalism with personal insight, five seasoned journalists examine how inequality has been propagated throughout history, highlighting the disparities that have long characterized the dangers of being Black in America.
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary and award winner.
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by Margaret Burnham
New Non-Fiction, 342.730873. The director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project examines the legal apparatus that helped sustain Jim Crow-era violence, focusing on a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.
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Buffalo Soldiers: African American Troops in the US Forces, 1866-1945
by Ron Field
Non-Fiction, 355.308996. The first regular army regiments of African Americans were authorized by Congress in July 1866. These brave men fought not only tirelessly against the enemy, but also against prejudice and discrimination within the armed forces. Their efforts culminated in the integration of the armed forces, starting in 1946. This book covers the history of African-American soldiers, from the American Civil War and their initial involvement on the western frontier during the Plains Wars, where they were nicknamed "Buffalo Soldiers" by their Native American enemies. It then examines their role during the age of "American Imperialism," campaigning across Cuba and Mexico before distinguishing themselves in the trenches of World War I. Finally, it examines their participation in World War II, where almost half a million African Americans fought and died for their country.
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Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army
by John P. Langellier
Non-Fiction, 355.008996. From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation’s defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as “buffalo soldiers” played in opening the Trans-Mississippi West. This concise overview reveals a cast of characters as big as the land they served.
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by Mamie Till-Mobley
Non-Fiction, 364.134. Mamie Till-Mobley was an ordinary African American woman raising her son, Emmett, in Chicago. In August 1955, Emmett was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. His mother began her career of activism when she insisted on an open-casket viewing of her son’s gruesomely disfigured body. More than a hundred thousand people attended the service. The trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, accused of kidnapping and murdering Emmett, was considered the first full-scale media event of the civil rights movement. What followed altered the course of this country’s history, and it was all set in motion by the sheer will, determination, and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley.
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A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
by Audrey T. McCluskey
Non-Fiction, 370.922. Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, Black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of Black women who uplifted future generations through a focus on education, social service, and cultural transformation. Laney, Bethune, Brown, and Burroughs built off each other’s successes and learned from each other’s struggles as administrators, lecturers, and suffragists. Drawing from the women’s own letters and writings about educational methods and from remembrances of surviving students, Audrey Thomas McCluskey reveals the pivotal significance of this sisterhood’s legacy for later generations and for the institution of education itself.
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Non-Fiction. In this intricately woven tapestry of American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Non-Fiction, 616.02774. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; and have helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Follow along on a journey from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
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Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
by George McCalman
New Non-Fiction, 920.009296 M125T. Profiling 145 Black heroes, both famous and unsung, in politics, science, literature, music and more, this illuminating, informative, vibrant and timely compendium showcases the depth and breadth of Black genius.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Non-Fiction, 973 SI97. This ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began on the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery reimagines if our national narrative actually started in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of 20-30 enslaved people from Africa.
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
by David Hackett Fischer
New Non-Fiction, 973.0496 F522A. Investigates the little-known history of how enslaved people from various parts of Africa mixed with colonists of European ancestry in the colonial United States to establish unique regional cultures.
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 F825. A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America.
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
by Kyle Mays
Non-Fiction. This first history of the intersection of the Black and Native American struggles for freedom examines pre-Revolutionary America to today’s Black Lives Matter movement and indigenous activism against the use of Native American imagery in culture and sports.
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Non-Fiction, 973.46. This National Book Award winner traces the history of the Hemings family from early eighteenth-century Virginia to their dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826, and describes their family ties to the third president against a backdrop of Revolutionary America and the French Revolution.
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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
by Linda Hirshman
Non-Fiction, 973.7114 H617C. The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as "the Contessa," raised money and managed Douglass's speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass's departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves.
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The Butler: A Witness to History
by Wil Haygood
Non-Fiction, 973.92. From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes an inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler. With a foreword by the director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay that explores the history of Black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the cast of the movie.
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The Black History of the White House
by Clarence Lusane
Non-Fiction, 975.3. In this examination of the White House -- itself a microcosm of the nation's historical racial divide -- author Clarence Lusane reminds readers that ten presidents were slaveholders. He also illuminates the lives of many previously unknown but fascinating African Americans (like Blind Tom, famed as a musical prodigy during his time as a White House slave) as well as more famous figures. An authoritative survey of African Americans' roles there (including as president), The Black History of the White House delivers "a sweeping portrayal of changing historical tides at the White House" (Booklist).
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Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century
by Emma Lou Thornbrough
Non-Fiction, 977.2. In this sequel to The Negro in Indiana before 1900, Black history expert Thornbrough chronicles the growth of African Americans in a northern state that was notable for its anti-Black tradition. She shows the effects of the Great Migration to work in war industries, linking the growth of the Black community to the increased segregation of the 1920s and demonstrating how World War II marked a turning point in the movement in Indiana to expand the civil rights of African Americans. She describes the impact of the national civil rights movement on Indiana, as young activists, both black and white, challenged segregation and racial injustice in many aspects of daily life. The final chapter by Lana Ruegamer explores ways that Black identity was affected by new access to education, work, and housing after 1970, demonstrating gains and losses from integration.
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We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah Cummings
Biography, CUMMINGS. A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers’ son in volatile South Baltimore shaped his life in activism, explaining how government oversight can become a positive part of a just American collective.
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Autobiographies
by Frederick Douglass
Biography, DOUGLASS. The great American reformer of the nineteenth century recounts his life from a slave to a leader in the movements for emancipation and Black labor.
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
by Katherine G. Johnson
Biography, JOHNSON. In a new memoir, the woman at the heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer.
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
Biography, KING. Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. The autobiography delves into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
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His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
Biography, LEWIS. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
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Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave
by David Fiske
Biography, NORTHUP. Examines Northup's life as a slave and reveals details of his life after he regained his freedom, relating how he traveled around the Northeast giving public lectures, worked with an Underground Railroad agent in Vermont to help fugitive slaves reach freedom in Canada, and was connected with several theatrical productions based upon his experiences. The tale of Northup's life demonstrates how the victims of the American system of slavery were not just the slaves themselves, but any free person of color—all of whom were potential kidnap victims, and whose lives were affected by that constant threat.
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A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
Biography, OBAMA. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
by Andrew K. Diemer
New Biography, STILL, WILLIAM. Establishing the man known as the Father of the Underground Railroad in his rightful place in American history, this remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an abolitionist who dedicated his life to antislavery work, shows how he helped to lay the groundwork for long-lasting activism in the Black community.
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by Catherine Clinton
Biography, TUBMAN. A definitive full-scale biography of the legendary fugitive slave turned "conductor" on the Underground Railroad describes Tubman's youth in the antebellum South, her escape to Philadelphia, her successful efforts to liberate slaves, and her work as a scout, spy, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
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She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Biography, TUBMAN. Explores the complexities and achievements of iconic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, combining rare commentary with new and public-domain photographs to offering modern insights into Tubman’s role in the Civil War, suffrage and emancipation.
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Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon
by Erica Ball
Biography, WALKER. Madam C.J. Walker--reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire--has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. In this biography, Erica L. Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker's times.
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Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
by Robert J. Norrell
Biography, WASHINGTON. A definitive biography of Booker T. Washington focuses on his efforts to support the cause of Black people in the segregated South by promoting an economic independence and development of moral character in order to integrate Black people into American life and to overcome exploitation and discrimination.
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster
Biography, WELLS. Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
by Kyle Mays
Non-Fiction. This first history of the intersection of the Black and Native American struggles for freedom examines pre-Revolutionary America to today’s Black Lives Matter movement and indigenous activism against the use of Native American imagery in culture and sports.
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family
by Gail Lumet Buckley
Non-Fiction. The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the story of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of her house-slave-turned-businessman ancestor, the branches of her family that lived in the North and South and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
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Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War
by David P. Cline
Non-Fiction. Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle.
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
by Henry Louis Gates
Non-Fiction. In an homage to Joel Augustus Rogers' 1957 work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. relies on the latest scholarship to offer an overview of African, diasporic and African-American history in Q-and-A format, including such queries as: Who were Africa’s first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? And more!
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Non-Fiction. In this intricately woven tapestry of American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
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Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders
by Dick Russell
Non-Fiction. Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of African-American musicians, civil rights leaders, philosophers, writers, and actors, including Barack Obama, Duke Ellington, Will Marion Cook, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, and Romare Bearden.
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick Gregory
Non-Fiction. The activist and social satirist who trail-blazed a new form of racial commentary in the 1960s examines 100 key events in Black History through this collection of essays which examine Middle Passage, the creation of Jheri Curl and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
eAudiobook. The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
by Jeff Pearlman
Non-Fiction. From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America's most recognizable pitchman. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on 720 original interviews, Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University's transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous "Bo Knows" Nike pitchman.
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Non-Fiction. In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the Black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and Black history pioneer Daniel Murray.
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A Child's Introduction to African American History
by Jabari Asim
J Non-Fiction. A fact-filled history of African Americans in politics, activism, sports, entertainment and other disciplines traces the slave trade and abolitionist movement through the Civil Rights era and the creation of hip-hop.
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#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism
by Rachael L Thomas
J Non-Fiction, 305.896073. In this title, readers learn about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, from the history of slavery and racism, to the slayings of Travon Martin and Michael Brown, to further efforts to end racism such as Campaign Zero, and #takeaknee, and Black Futures Lab.
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Heroes for Civil Rights
by David A. Adler
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Profiles the leaders and heroes of the civil rights movements, including Fannie Lou Hamer, the Little Rock Nine, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; examining what historical contribution they made in the effort to make equality a right for all.
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The Great Migration: Journey to the North
by Eloise Greenfield
J Non-Fiction, 811.54. A five-part poem by award-winning collaborators, told from multiple perspectives with powerful, evocative collage artwork, poignantly illuminates the experiences of families like their own, who left their homes in search of better lives during the Great Migration.
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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
J Non-Fiction, 811.54. The award-winning author of Jazmin’s Notebook presents a “Golden Shovel” anthology of poems inspired by the less-recognized women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, in a volume complemented by evocative illustrations from respected African American women artists.
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Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
by Tonya Bolden
J Non-Fiction, 920.009296. The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Beautiful Moon presents a tribute to 16 diverse Americans of African descent who helped define history in the 18th through 20th centuries, including Allen Allensworth, Sissieretta Jones and Maggie Lena Walker.
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The Tuskegee Airmen
by Sarah De Capua
J Non-Fiction, 940.544973. Describes the history of the Tuskegee airmen, an Air Force squadron of African Americans who fought in World War II and were pioneers in the racial integration of the United States armed forces.
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Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
by Scott Reynolds Nelson
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Combining the story of the building of the railroads, the period of Reconstruction, folk tales, American mythology, and the tradition of work songs with his own personal quest, a renowned historian unravels the mystery surrounding the legendary African-American figure.
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Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
by Linda Tarrant-Reid
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Traces more than four centuries of African-American history against a backdrop of national and world events, drawing on personal journals, interviews and archival materials to document times ranging from the Colonial period and slavery through the Civil War and the Civil Rights era.
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Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America
by Tonya Bolden
J Non-Fiction, 976.684. A chronicle of the wealthy young African-American's rags-to-riches story describes her early days in Indian Territory prior to Oklahoma's statehood, her sudden wealth when oil was discovered on her land allotment and how she was targeted by corrupt and greedy adults.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader
by Robert E. Jakoubek
J Biography, KING. A critically acclaimed biography series of history's most notable African Americans includes straightforward and objective writing combined with important memorabilia and photographs.
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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
by Chris Barton
J Biography, LYNCH. A comprehensive introduction to the life and achievements of one of the country's first African-American Congressmen describes his experiences as an enslaved child and his post-Emancipation rise as a justice of the peace.
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Picture Book, LEE SHETTERLY. Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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