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Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
by Joseph H. Holland
Non-Fiction, 158.1 H719M. Collecting motivational quotes, historical contexts and enlightening precepts from Black trailblazers spanning the 18th century to the present, this celebration of the vast breadth and scope of Black excellence spotlights the principles of success exemplified by the lives of 120 Black role models.
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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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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part One, 1876, 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
by Tyina L. Steptoe
Non-Fiction, 305.800973 J564. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction - and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by David J. Dennis
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 G223A. 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 Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 G223B. 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.
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Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
by Oprah Winfrey
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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The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
by Karida Brown
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 N42. In 1920, as art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, W. E. B. Du Bois published The Brownies' Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun--the first periodical for African American youth, collecting original art, stories, letters, and activities to celebrate their identities and inspire their imaginations and ambitions. Building upon Du Bois's mission, esteemed professor and scholar Karida Brown and celebrated artist Charly Palmer reimagine the groundbreaking publication with The New Brownies Book, gathering the work of more than 60 contemporary Black artists and writers, including Ntozake Shange, Frank X. Walker, Danny Simmons, and Alice Faye Duncan. Created by and for Black families today, this anthology is filled with inspiring essays, poems, photographs, paintings, and short stories reflecting on the joy and depth of the Black experience.
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
by Taylor Branch
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 B732A. The final installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's history of the civil rights movement chronicles Martin Luther King's final years, covering such topics as the 1965 Selma march for the right to vote, King's turbulent alliance with Lyndon Johnson, and his protests against the Vietnam war.
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
by Taylor Branch
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 B732PI. Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism.
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
New Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 J135W. Offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women, a noted historian presents a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience and a path toward liberation.
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair Murphy Kelley
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 K295B. An award-winning historian shows how the experiences of the Black working class, from the earliest days of the republic to the essential worker of the Covid pandemic, is essential to a full understanding of the American story.
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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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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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Saying It Loud: 1966, the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by Mark Whitaker
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 W58S. Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers brilliant portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics and the teaching of Black history.
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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
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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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson
New Non-Fiction, 364.134 T379B. Recounting one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history—the 1955 murder and torture of Emmett Till, a Black boy barely in his teens, in barn in Money, Mississippi, this story about property, money, power and white supremacy is still ongoing and implicates all of us.
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Non-Fiction, 394.263 G659O. 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
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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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
by Rachel Jamison. Webster
Non-Fiction, 929.20973 B438. A professor and author examines the of life of one of her ancestors, a brilliant African American mathematician, writer and astronomer who helped survey Washington, DC and implored Thomas Jefferson to examine his hypocrisy on race.
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence
by Lean'tin L. Bracks
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 B725A. Updated and revised for the first time in over a decade, the second edition of African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence is a comprehensive and inspiring book that celebrates the African American experience, highlighting the extraordinary people and their profound influence on American history. It covers a wide range of topics, including literature, art, music, the civil rights movement, religion, science, medicine, politics, education, business, the military, sports, theater, film, and television, providing historical facts and insightful essays and profiling the lives and contributions of more than 800 notable individuals.
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Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle since Reconstruction
by William H. Chafe
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 C346L. It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a masterspy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves who had joined him in New Bern, North Carolina. We will join the Union Army, Galloway told the recruiter, but only on our terms. Galloway then laid down his demands: the right to vote; the right to serve on juries; the right to run for elected office; equal pay for Black and white soldiers; schools for their children; jobs for women; and care for their families. In retrospect, the demands seem revolutionary. But not so, given the roles that Blacks were playing in the war. Hence, the recruiter said yes. Within days, 10,000 Blacks had joined Galloway to enlist in the Union Army. Those soldiers--along with nearly 200,000 other Blacks who enlisted--proved pivotal to destroying the system of plantation slavery. Soon, they would inaugurate the quest to create a truly democratic America.
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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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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 G223S. The NAACP Image Award-winning creator of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross chronicles America's post-Civil War struggle for racial equality and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated Black Americans throughout the 20th century.
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
by Michael Harriot
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 H239B. The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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To Reach the Nation's Ear: A History of African American Public Speaking
by Richard W. Leeman
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 L517T. Throughout much of American history, African Americans have been denied easy access to most of the traditional modes of effective reform, such as newspapers, legislative assemblies, unions and political parties. Public speaking has thus been one of the most critically important means by which leaders and individuals have reached an audience, enacted or prevented change, and created community. Dating from the earliest days of American history, the African American community has produced many notable and eloquent speakers and has demonstrated a vibrant oral tradition.
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
by Kyle Mays
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 M455A. 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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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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Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
Biography, EVERS, MEDGAR. Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
Biography, KING MARTIN LUTHER. 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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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Biography, KING, MARTIN LUTHER. The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.
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John Lewis: A Life
by David Greenberg
New Biography, LEWIS, JOHN. Based on interviews and previously unreleased FBI files, a professor of history at Rutgers University presents the definitive biography of John Lewis's journey from rural Alabama poverty to becoming a pivotal Civil Rights leader and conscience of Congress.
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His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
Biography, LEWIS, JOHN. 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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A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
Biography, OBAMA, BARACK. In the 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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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
by Scott Shane
Biography, SMALLWOOD, THOMAS. This riveting account of the little-known abolitionist, liberator and writer recounts how he organized mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore and surrounding counties to freedom in the north, risking his own freedom to battle what he called“the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
by Andrew K. Diemer
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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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
by Tiya Miles
Biography, TUBMAN, HARRIET. From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero--the woman who, despite being barely five-feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others North to freedom, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people without loss of life. You could almost say she's America's Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world.
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Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman : Public Mystic & Freedom Fighter
by Therese Taylor-Stinson
Biography, TUBMAN, HARRIET. Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter and leader in the Underground Railroad, is one of the most significant figures in U.S. history. Her courage and determination in bringing enslaved people to freedom have established her as an icon of the abolitionist movement. But behind the history of the heroine called "Moses" was a woman of deep faith. Therese Taylor-Stinson introduces Harriet, a woman born into slavery whose unwavering faith and practices in spirituality and contemplation carried her through insufferable abuse and hardship to become a leader for her people. Her profound internal liberation came from deep roots in mysticism, Christianity, nature spirituality, and African Indigenous beliefs that empowered her own escape from enslavement--giving her the strength and purpose to lead others on the road to freedom.
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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, IDA B.. 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. 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, 973.0496 M455A. 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, 394.263 G659O. 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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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 Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
by Jeff Pearlman
Boundless eBook. 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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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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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Boundless eBook. 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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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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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography. 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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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 G882L. 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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An American Story
by Kwame Alexander
Picture Books, ALEXANDER. A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson.
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Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher
by Ruby Bridges
New Picture Books, BRIDGES, RUBY. Ruby Bridges shares the tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher she met after being the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School, in a love letter to teachers who hold the power to change lives.
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Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
New Picture Books, CLINE-RANSOME, LESA. This compelling and brilliantly told story of the pioneering civil rights leader, whose work and legacy lives on, recounts how he walked at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights.
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Picture Books, LEE SHETTERLY, MARGOT. A lavishly illustrated picture book adaptation of the inspiring story of the four brilliant mathematicians who were pivotal to the success of America's space program, written by one of their associates, describes how they overcame the harsh limitations imposed on black women in the segregated 1960s.
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Sharing the Dream
by Shelia P. Moses
New Picture Books, MOSES, SHELIA P. Sitting on her father's shoulders at the March on Washington, Agnes is awed by the sea of people gathered for the fight for equal rights for Black people, in a portrait of a monumental day seen through a child's eyes.
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Maya Angelou Finds Her Voice
by Connie Roop
New Picture Books, ROOP, CONNIE. After eight-year-old Maya Angelou stops talking because she believes her words hurt somebody, Bertha Flowers invites Maya to her home and talks to her about language and reads to her, moving Maya to inspire the world with words of her own.
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