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Black History Month From Reconstruction to the Jazz Age February 2025 |
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The Black box : writing the race
by Henry Louis Gates
Through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, this epic story of Black self-definition in America is told through the myriad of writers who've led the way and who have used words to create a livable world—a "home"—for Black people destined to live out their lives in a racist society. Illustrations.
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Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
by Zora Neale Hurston
Presents a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.
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Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon
by Erica L Ball
"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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Miss Anne in Harlem : the white women of the Black Renaissance
by Carla Kaplan
Brilliantly combining social history and biography, this never-before-told story of the independent-minded and spirited white women of the black Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, collectively referred to as Miss Anne, explores their motivations and often misunderstood choices. .
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
A comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the canonical African-American author reflects his private struggles, intellectual relationships and extraordinary achievements in a segregated America..
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The annotated African American folktales
by Henry Louis Gates
A treasury of dozens of African-American folktales discusses their role in a broader sophisticated, complex and heterogeneous cultural heritage, sharing illuminating annotations and illustrations complementing such classics as the Brer Rabbit stories, the African trickster Anansi and out-of-print tales from the late 19th century's Southern Workman.
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The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
A biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance describes him becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD at Harvard University and promoting the work of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Jacob Lawrence.
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On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker
by A'Lelia Perry Bundles
Written by her great-great-grandaughter, the biography of one of history's great entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Madam C. J. Walker, is told through personal letters, records, and never-before-seen photographs from the family collection. Reprint.
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Smoketown : the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
by Mark Whitaker
Chronicles the lesser-known African-American renaissance in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s, assessing how it rivaled Harlem and Chicago as the site of the most widely read black newspaper in the nation, the two leading Negro Leagues baseball teams and the childhood homes of forefront jazz pioneers. By the author of My Long Trip Home.
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance reader
by David Levering Lewis
A gathering of poetry, manifestos, speeches, essays, reminiscences, short stories, and drama from forty-five leading writers surrounding the New Negro Movement, Harlem's intellectual and artistic community of the twenties and thirties.
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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wellss early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist. Illustrations.
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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families. Reprint. A best-selling book. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners
by Margaret A Burnham
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. Illustrations.
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The accident of color : a story of race in Reconstruction
by Daniel Brook
The award-winning author of A History of Future Cities documents how the citizenship privileges of mixed-race urbanites in 19th-century New Orleans and Charleston were swept away by the political backlashes of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.
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Josephine : the hungry heart
by Jean-Claude Baker
In a volume filled with little-known facts and anecdotes, a man who was close to famed entertainer Josephine Baker reveals the truth behind her captivating legend.
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The complete stories
by Zora Neale Hurston
A complete collection of the great African-American author's short works includes "John Redding Goes to Sea," "Spunk," "The Gilded Six Bits," "The Conscience of the Court," "Possum or Pig," "Cock Robin Beale Street," and "Book of Harlem."
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The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel
by Honorâee Fanonne Jeffers
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
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Jubilee
by Margaret Walker
A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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American daughters : a novel
by Piper Huguley
Brought together by their fathers' friendship, describes how the daughters of Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt became close friends and struggled together and supported each other through marriages, pregnancies, women's rights and progressive causes. Original.
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The personal librarian
by Marie Benedict
Hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library, Belle de Costa Greene becomes one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she keeps.
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Daughter of the merciful deep
by L. Penelope
Mute since armed riders expelled every Black family in town, Jane Edwards seeks assistance from a strange man with uncanny abilities to help fight the construction of a dam that will wash away her new home.
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Early novels and stories : Early Novels and Stories
by James Baldwin
A collection of stories penned by one of the greatest African-American writers of the postwar era includes such works as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, and Going to Meet the Man.
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Viper's dream : a novel
by Jake Lamar
"Harlem, 1936. Clyde "The Viper" Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem's drug trade. In this heartbreaking novel, one man must decide what he is willing to give up and what he wants to fight for. Viper's Dream is a fast-paced story that is charged with suspense. A snappy, provocative voice and a stark look at Viper's Black American experience weave with endless plot twists to offer readers a stunningly original, achingly beautiful read"
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Native son
by Richard Wright
Traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman
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Harlem sunset / : A Harlem Renaissance Mystery by Nekesa AfiaLouise Lloyd is determined to prove her girlfriend's innocence in the murder of an acquaintance despite her waking up covered in blood with no memory of what happened in the second novel of the series following Dead Dead Girls. Original.
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Dead dead girls
by Nekesa Afia
After a raid on a Manhattan speakeasy in 1926 Harlem, Louise Lloyd is given the opportunity to avoid jail by helping to solve the murders of several local black girls, in the first novel of a new mystery series. Original.
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A lethal lady
by Nekesa Afia
While working at a Paris parfumerie by day and frequenting the Aquarius club every night, Louise Lloyd agrees to help a local woman find her missing artist daughter in the third novel of the series following Harlem Sunset. Original.
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The monsters we defy
by L. Penelope
In 1925 Washington, D.C., Clara Johnson, in debt to the spirit world, must steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District, and to pull off this daring heist, assembles an unlikely team to do the impossible to save their community—and their lives.
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The collected poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
A complete anthology of the poetry of Langston Hughes presents 860 poems that capture the rhythms, emotions, cultural significance, and political awareness of African-American life, from his earliest works to his final collection.
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Wild women and the blues
by Denny S. Bryce
In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper's daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later. Original.
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The color purple
by Alice Walker
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years
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