African American History

African American almanac: 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence. Lean’tin Bracks. 973.0496 BRA
An African American cookbook: traditional and other favorite recipes. Phoebe Bailey. 641.592 BAI
African American quotations. Richard Newman. 810.8089 AFR
American patriots: the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. Gail Buckley. 355.008 BUC
American uprising: the untold story of America’s largest slave revolt. Daniel Rasmussen. 973.0496 RAS
The art and history of Black memorabilia. Larry Vincent Buster. 790.132 BUS
At mama’s knee: mothers and race in black and white. April Ryan. 305.896 RYA
The audacity of hope. Barack Obama. 320.973 OBA, Large Type 320.973 OBA, Spanish Lang. 320.973 OBA, CD 320.973 OBA
Back in the days: photographs. Jamel Shabazz. 973.927 SHA
Beale Street dynasty: sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis. Preston 976.819 LAU
The Beast side: living and dying while black in America. D. Watkins. 305.896 WAT
Because they marched: the people’s campaign for voting rights that changed America. Russell Freedman. Y 323.1196 FRE
Bending toward justice: the Voting Rights Act and the transformation of American democracy. Gary May. 324.62 MAY
Beyond glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a world on the brink. David Margolick. 796.83 MAR
The Black book. 973.0496 BLA
The black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family. Gail Lumet Buckley. 929.2 BUC
Black Detroit: a people’s history of self-determination. Herb Boyd. 977.434 BOY
Black firsts: 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events. 973.0496 BLA
The Black history of the White House. Clarence Lusane. 975.3 LUS
The black list. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. 920 GRE
Black lives matter. Sue Bradford Edwards, Duchess Harris. Y 305.896 EDW
Black teachers on teaching. Michele Foster. 371.1 FOS
Blackballed: the black and white politics of race on America’s campuses. Lawrence 378.1982 ROS
The breakthrough: politics and race in the age of Obama. Gwen Ifill. 328.73 IFI
Brothers in arms: the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s forgotten heroes. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton. 940.5421 ABD
Capitol men: the epic story of Reconstruction through the lives of the first Black congressmen. Philip Dray. 973.8 DRA
Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama. Diane McWhorter. 976.1 MACW
Charging the net: a history of blacks in tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters. Cecil Harris. 796.342 HAR
Chicken soup for the African American woman’s soul. 305.488 CHI
Children of fire: a history of African Americans. Thomas C. Holt. 973.0496 HOL
The chitlin’ circuit: and the road to rock ‘n’ roll. Preston Lauterbach. 781.64 LAU
The color of Christ: the Son of God and the saga of race in America. Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey. 232 BLU
Come hell or high water: Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster. Michael Eric Dyson. 363.3492 DYS
Come on, people: on the path from victims to victors. Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint. 155.84 COS
The confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the creation of the Bush legacy. Glenn Kessler. 973.931 KES
The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America. Gerald Horne. 973.31 HOR
The cross and the lynching tree. James H. Cone. 277.3 CON
Daisy Turner’s kin: an African American family saga. Jane C. Beck. 929.2 BEC
Dark places of the earth: the voyage of the slave ship Antelope. Jonathan M. Bryant. 342.73 BRY
The day freedom died: the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction. Charles Lane. 976.367 LAN
Def Jam recordings: the first 25 years of the last great record label. 782.4216 DEF
The defender: how the legendary Black newspaper changed America: from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama. Ethan Michaeli. 071.73 PUL
Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America. Gilbert King. 364.1532 KIN
Devotion: an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice. Adam Makos. 951.904 MAK
Disintegration: the splintering of Black America. Eugene Robinson. 305.896 ROB
Divided we fail: the story of an African American community that ended the era of school desegregation. Sarah Garland. 379.263 GAR
Double exposure: African American women: photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Y 779.2 DOU
The double v: how wars, protest, and Harry Truman desegregated America’s military. Rawn James, Jr. 355.0089 JAM
Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II. Cheryl Mullenbach. Y 940.5308 MUL
Down to the crossroads: civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear. Aram Goudsouzian. 323.1196 GOU
A dreadful deceit: the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama’s America. Jacqueline Jones. 973.0496 JON
Ebony and ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities. Craig Steven Wilder. 378.73 WIL
Elder grace: the nobility of aging. Chester Higgins, Jr. 305.26 HIG
Family properties: race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America. Beryl Satter. 363.59 SAT
The family tree: a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets, and my search for the truth. Karen Branan. 364.134 BRA
The fence: a police cover-up along Boston’s racial divide. Dick Lehr. 363.22 LEH
The fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and American slavery. Eric Foner. 973.7092 FON
Forgotten: the untold story of D-Day’s Black heroes, at home and at war. Linda Hervieux. 940.5412 HER
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the racial divide. Joy-Ann Reid. 973.932 REI
Fraternity. Diane Brady. 378.07 BRA
Freedom by any means: con games, voodoo schemes, true love and lawsuits on the Underground Railroad. Betty DeRamus. 973.7115 DER
Freedom facts and firsts: 400 years of the African American civil rights experience. Y 323.1196 FRE
Freedom flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. J. Todd Moye. 940.5449 MOY
Freedom national: the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. James Oakes. 973.714 OAK
The Freedom Summer murders. Don Mitchell. Y 323.1196 MIT
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Y 305.896 TAY
Gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the underground railroad. Eric Foner. 973.7115 FON
Generations of captivity: a history of African-American slaves. Ira Berlin. 973.0496 BER
Ghettonation. Cora Daniels. 306.09 DAN
Give me wings: how a choir of former slaves took on the world. Kathy Lowinger. Y 326.8 LOW
Gotta go gotta flow: life, love, and lust on Chicago’s South Side from the seventies. Patricia Smith. 779 SMI
Gridiron gauntlet: the story of the men who integrated pro football, in their own words. Andy Piascik. 796.332 PIA
Growing up in slavery. Y 306.362 GRO
Half past autumn. Gordon Parks. 770.92 PAR
Hallelujah! the welcome table: a lifetime of memories with recipes. Maya Angelou. 641.597 ANG
The hammer and the anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America. Dwight Jon Zimmerman. Graphic 973.7 ZIM
The Harlem Hellfighters. Max Brooks. Graphic 940.41 BRO
Harlem is nowhere: a journey to the mecca of black America. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. 974.71 RHO
Harlem: the four hundred year history from Dutch village to capital of black America. Jonathan Gill. 974.71 GIL
The Hellfighters of Harlem. Bill Harris. 940.41 HAR
Hellhound on his trail: the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin. Hampton Sides. 364.1524 SID, CD 364.1524 SID
Help me to find my people: the African American search for family lost in slavery. Heather Andrea Williams. 306.362 WIL
Hidden in plain view: the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad. Jacqueline Tobin. 746.46 TOB
High on the hog: a culinary journey from Africa to America. Jessica B. Harris. 641.5929 HAR
Holding up your corner: talking about race in your community. F. Willis Johnson. 200.89 JOH
In search of our roots: how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 929.2 GAT 09
Indiana slave narratives. Ind. Coll. 977.2 IND
The internal enemy: slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832. Alan Taylor. 975.503 TAY
The interpreter. Alice Kaplan. 940.5403 KAP
Killing the messenger: a story of radical faith, racism’s backlash, and the assassination of a journalist. Thomas Peele. 364.1523 PEE
Letters to an incarcerated brother: encouragement, hope, and healing for inmates and their loved ones. Hill Harper. 365.6092 HAR
Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008. Henry Louis Gates. 973.0496 GAT
Lift every voice: the NAACP and the making of the Civil Rights Movement. Patricia Sullivan. 973.0496 SUL
The long walk to freedom: runaway slave narratives. 306.362 LON
Loving: interracial intimacy in America and the threat to White supremacy. Sheryll Cashin. 306.84 CAS
The making of African America: the four great migrations. Ira Berlin. 973.0496 BER
Marching for freedom: walk together, children, and don’t you grow weary. Elizabeth Partridge. Y 323.1196 PAR
Medical apartheid. Harriet A. Washington. 174.28 HAR
Message to our folks: the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Paul Steinbeck. 784.4 STE
Miles to go for freedom: segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years. Linda Barrett Osborne. Y 305.896 OSB
Mine eyes have seen: bearing witness to the civil rights struggle. Bob Adelman. 323.1196 ADE
“Multiplication is for white people”: raising expectations for other people’s children. Lisa Delpit. 379.26 DEL
“Negro president”: Jefferson and the slave power. Garry Wills. 973.46 WIL
The new abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel. Gary Dorrien. 323.1196 DOR
New England bound: slavery and colonization in early America. Wendy Warren. 306.362 WAR
The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Michelle Alexander. 364.973 ALE
New York burning: liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan. Jill Lepore. 974.71 LEP
Nobody turn me around: a people’s history of the 1963 March on Washington. Charles Euchner. 323.1196 EUC
Not in my family: AIDS in the African-American community. 362.1969 NOT
The original Black elite: Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. 973.0496 TAY
Our Black sons matter: mothers talk about fears, sorrows, and hopes. 305.242 OUR
Our town: a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America. Cynthia Carr. 977.269 CAR, Ind. Coll. 977.269 CAR
The past is never dead: the trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s struggle for redemption. Harry N. Maclean. 345.025 MACL
The persistence of the color line: racial politics and the Obama presidency. Randall Kennedy. 973.932 KEN
Please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for Blacks to succeed. Jason L. Riley. 305.896 RIL
The Port Chicago 50: disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights. Steve Sheinkin. Y 940.5453 SHE
The problem of slavery in the age of emancipation. David Brion Davis. 306.362 DAV
Promises kept: raising Black boys to succeed in school and in life. Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson. 371.829 BRE
The race beat: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation. Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff. 070.449 ROB
Redemption: the last battle of the Civil War. Nicholas Lemann. 976.206 LEM
The rest I will kill: William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave. Brian McGinty. 973.741 MACG
The rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the golden age of basketball. John Taylor. 796.323 TAY
Road to freedom: photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968. Julian Cox. 323.1196 COX
Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution. Simon Schama. 973.31 SCH, CD
Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: the forgotten history of an American shrine. Scott Casper. 973.4 CAS
The scorpion’s sting: antislavery and the coming of the Civil War. James Oakes. 973.711 OAK
Six lessons for six sons. Joe Massengale. 650.1 MAS
Slavery by another name. Douglas A. Blackmon. 973.0496 BLA
The slaves’ war: the Civil War in the words of former slaves. Andrew Ward. 973.711 WAR
The soiling of Old Glory: the story of a photograph that shocked America. Louis P. Masur. 973.925 MAS
Some of my best friends are Black: the strange story of integration in America. Tanner Colby. 305.896 COL
Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle. Kristen Green. 379.263 GRE
The soul of baseball. Joe Posnanski. 796.357 POS
Spies of Mississippi: the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement. Rick Bowers. Y 323.1196 BOW
Standing on holy ground: a triumph over hate crime in the Deep South. Sandra E. Johnson. 975 JOH
Still I rise: a graphic history of African Americans. Roland Laird. Y 741.5 LAI
Sugar of the crop: my journey to find the children of slaves. Sana Butler. 305.896 BUT
Sundown towns: a hidden dimension of American racism. James W. Loewen. 305.8 LOE
Suspicion nation: the inside story of the Trayvon Martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it. Lisa Bloom. 363.23 BLO
The sweet hell inside: a family history. Edward Ball. 975.791 BAL
Sweetie pie’s cookbook: soulful Southern recipes, from my family to yours. Robbie “Miss Robbie” Montgomery. 641.592 MON
They can’t kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America’s racial justice movement. Wesley Lowery. 305.896 LOW
The third reconstruction: Moral Mondays, fusion politics, and the rise of a new justice movement. William J. Barber II. 277.3083 BAR
This far by faith: stories from the African American religious experience. Juan Williams. 200.97 WIL
Thunder at the gates: the Black Civil War regiments that redeemed America. Douglas R. Egerton. 973.741 EGE
A time to break silence: the essential works of Martin Luther King, Jr. for students. Y 323.092 KIN
To a young jazz musician: letters from the road. Wynton Marsalis. 781.65 MAR
A traveler’s guide to the civil rights movement. Jim Carrier. 917.5 CAR
The trial of the Scottsboro boys. David Aretha. Y 345.025 ARE
Triumph: the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics. Jeremy Schaap. 796.48 SCH
Troubled refuge: struggling for freedom in the Civil War. Chandra Manning. 973.711 MAN
Turn away thy son: Little Rock, the crisis that shocked the nation. Elizabeth Jacoway. 379.263 JAC
Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. Lynda Blackmon Lowery. Y 323.1196 LOW
Uncommon marriage: learning about lasting love and overcoming life’s obstacles together. Tony & Lauren Dungy. 248.4 DUN
The unlevel playing field: a documentary history of the African American experience in sport. 796.089 UNL
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America’s great migration. Isabel Wilkerson. 973.0496 WIL
What color is a conservative?: my life and my politics. J.C. Watts, Jr. 328.73 WAT
Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada’s quest to change Harlem and America. Paul Tough. 362.57 TOU
Without mercy: the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South. David Beasley. 364.66 BEA
The word: Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading and writing: interviews. 810.8 WOR
Yummy: the last days of a Southside Shorty. G. Neri. Graphic 305.896 NER

BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: the story behind an American friendship. Russell Freedman. Y 973.7092 FRE
After the dance: my life with Marvin Gaye. Jan Gaye. 782.4216 GAY
Alice Walker: a life. Evelyn C. White. B Walker
American tapestry: the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of Michelle Obama. Rachel L. Swarns. B Obama
And I haven’t had a bad day since: from the streets of Harlem to the halls of Congress. Charles B. Rangel. B Rangel
Around the way girl: a memoir. Taraji P. Henson. B Henson
The autobiography of Medgar Evers. B Evers
The awkward thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: tales of a 6’4″, African American, heterosexual, cisgender, left-leaning, asthmatic, black and proud blerd, mama’s boy, dad, and stand-up comedian. W. Kamau Bell. B Bell
Bad boy. Walter Dean Myers. Large Type B Myers
Barack and Michelle: portrait of an American marriage. Christopher Andersen. B Obama
The beautiful struggle: a father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood. Ta-Nehisi Coates. B Coates
Becoming Mr. October. Reggie Jackson. 796.357 JAC
Becoming Ms. Burton: from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women. Susan Burton, Cari Lynn. 364.8 BUR
Best shot in the West: the adventures of Nat Love. Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr. Y 741.5 MACK
Betty Shabazz. Russell J. Rickford. B Shabazz
Billie Holiday: the musician and the myth. John Szwed. B Holiday
Billy Williams: my sweet-swinging lifetime with the Cubs. B Williams
Black maestro. Joe Drape. B Winkfield
Black man in a white coat: a doctor’s reflections on race and medicine. Damon Tweedy. B Tweedy
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. Kate Larson. B Tubman
The bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick. B Obama
Brother, I’m dying. Edwidge Danticat. B Danticat, CD B Danticat
The Bus. Jerome Bettis. B Bettis
Claudette Colvin. Phillip Hoose. Y 323.092 HOO
Collected essays & memoirs. Albert Murray. 814.54 MUR
Colored people: a memoir. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. B Gates
Coltrane. Ben Ratliff. 781.65 RAT
Crossroads: the life and afterlife of blues legend Robert Johnson. Tom Graves. B Johnson
Dear senator: a daughter’s memoir. Essie Mae Washington-Williams. 973.9 WAS
Death of a King: the real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final year. Tavis Smiley. B King
Decoded. Jay-Z. 782.4216 JAY
Dr. J: the autobiography. Julius Erving. B Erving
Duke: a life of Duke Ellington. Terry Teachout. B Ellington
Elizabeth and Hazel: two women of Little Rock. David Margolick. 379.263 MAR
Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
Finding fish. Antwone Fisher. B Fisher
Fire shut up in my bones: a memoir. Charles M. Blow. B Blow
The firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice. Patricia Bell-Scott. 920.72 BEL
Fist, stick, knife, gun: a personal history of violence. Geoffrey Canada. Y 741.5 CAN
5 Black Women, Inc.: 25 stories that gave birth to a company. Annette Y. Britton. Ind. Coll. B Britton
Frederick Douglass. Peter Burchard. B Douglass
Furious cool: Richard Pryor and the world that made him. David Henry, Joe Henry. B Pryor, CD B Pryor
George Washington Carver: a biography. Gary R. Kremer. B Carver
Glow: the autobiography of Rick James. Rick James. B James
The grace of silence. Michele Norris. B Norris
Grace will lead me home. Robin Givens. B Givens
Harriet Tubman: a biography. James A. McGowan, William C. Kashatus. B Tubman
The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family. Annette Gordon-Reed. B Hemings, CD B Hemings
The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood. Helene Cooper. B Cooper
I am the new black. Tracy Morgan. B Morgan
I see the promised land. Arthur Flowers, Manu Chitraker, Guglielmo Rossi. Graphic B King
Ice: a memoir of gangster life and redemption–from South Central to Hollywood. Ice-T. B Ice-T
An illuminated life: Belle da Costa Greene’s journey from prejudice to privilege. Heidi Ardizzone. B Greene
I’m still standing: from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen–my journey home. Shoshana Johnson. 956.7044 JOH
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Rebecca Skloot. 616.0277 SKL, Y 616.0277 SKL, Large Type 616.0277 SKL
In black and white: the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Wil Haygood. B Davis
In the place of justice: a story of punishment and deliverance. Wilbert Rideau. 365.6 RID
It worked for me: in life and leadership. Colin Powell. B Powell, CD B Powell
Joe Louis: hard times man. Randy Roberts. B Louis
Kansas City lightning: the rise and times of Charlie Parker. Stanley Crouch. B Parker
The last hero: a life of Henry Aaron. Howard Bryant. B Aaron
The last holiday: a memoir. Gil Scott-Heron. B Scott-Heron
The legs are the last to go. Diahann Carroll. B Carroll
The life and the adventures of a haunted convict. Austin Reed. 365.6092 REE
Life beyond measure: letters to my great-granddaughter. Sidney Poitier. B Poitier
Life in motion: an unlikely ballerina. Misty Copeland. B Copeland
Lost & found: finding hope in the detours of life. Sarah Jakes. 289.94 JAK
Lost prophet: the life and times of Bayard Rustin. John D’Emilio. B Rustin
Love in black and white. William S. Cohen. B Cohen
Major: a black athlete, a white era, and the fight to be the world’s fastest human being. Todd Balf. B Taylor
Malcolm X. Andrew Helfer. Graphic B X
Malcolm X: a life of reinvention. Manning Marable. B X
Manchild in the promised land. Claude Brown. B Brown, CD B Brown
March. Book one. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin. Graphic 342.73 LEW
Men we reaped: a memoir. Jesmyn Ward. B Ward
Mirror to America: the autobiography of John Hope Franklin. B Franklin
The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. Issa Rae. Y 305.48 RAE
Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance. Carla Kaplan. 700.92 KAP
Mom & me & mom. Maya Angelou. B Angelou, Large Type B Angelou, CD B Angelou
My grandfather’s son. Clarence Thomas. B Thomas
My long trip home: a family memoir. Mark Whitaker. B Whitaker
My song: a memoir. Harry Belafonte. B Belafonte
The next big story: my journey through the land of possibilities. Soledad O’Brien. 070.92 OBR
No higher honor: a memoir of my years in Washington. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
On our way to beautiful. Yolanda Young. B Young
One drop: my father’s hidden life– a story of race and family secrets. Bliss Broyard. B Broyard
The one: the life and music of James Brown. R.J. Smith. B Brown
Opening day: the story of Jackie Robinson’s first season. Jonathan Eig. B Robinson
Oprah: a biography. Kitty Kelley. B Winfrey, Spanish Lang. B Winfrey, CD B Winfrey
The original guitar hero and the power of music: the legendary Lonnie Johnson, music, and civil rights. Dean Alger. 782.4216 ALG
The other Wes Moore: one name two fates. Wes Moore. B Moore
The pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream. Sampson Davis. Y 610.92 DAV, CD 926
Panther baby: a life of rebellion and reinvention. Jamal Joseph. B Joseph
Passing strange: a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line. Martha A. Sandweiss. B King
A piece of cake. Cupcake Brown. B Brown
A place to be someone: growing up with Charles Gordone. Shirley Gordon Jackson. Ind Coll B Gordone
Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong. Terry Teachout. B Armstrong
Postcards from Cookie: a memoir of motherhood, miracles, and a whole lot of mail. Caroline Clark. B Clarke
Prepared for a purpose: the inspiring true story of how one woman saved an Atlanta school under siege. Antoinette Tuff. B Tuff
Princess Noire: the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone. Nadine Cohodas. B Simone
The pursuit of happyness. Chris Gardner. B Gardner, CD B Gardner, DVD Drama P
Quiet strength. Tony Dungy. B Dungy, CD B Dungy
Raising fences: a black man’s love story. Michael Datcher. B Datcher
Ready for revolution. Stokely Carmichael. B Carmichael
The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Jeanne Theoharis. B Parks, Large Type B Parks
Resilience: faith, focus, triumph. Alonzo Mourning. 796.323 MOU
Respect: the life of Aretha Franklin. David Ritz. B Franklin
Room full of mirrors. Charles R. Cross. B Hendrix
Secret daughter: a mixed-race daughter and the mother who gave her away. June Cross. B Cross
The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League. Jeff Hobbs. B Peace, Y 920 HOB
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America. Wil Haygood. 347.7326 HAY
Sister of the solid rock: Edna Mae Barnes Martin and the East Side Christian Center. Wilma Rugh Taylor. Ind. Coll. B Martin
A slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. B Jennings
Soldier: the life of Colin Powell. Karen DeYoung. B Powell
A song flung up to heaven. Maya Angelou. B Angelou, CD B Angelou
The soul of a butterfly: reflections on life’s journey. Muhammad Ali. B Ali, Large Type B Ali
The sound of freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America. Raymond Arsenault. B Anderson
Stokely: a life. Peniel E. Joseph. B Carmichael
Sweet thunder: the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Wil Haygood. B Robinson
Thriller: the musical life of Michael Jackson. Nelson George. 782.4216 GEO
Through it all: reflections on my life, my family, and my faith. Christine King Farris. B Farris
T.O. Terrell Owens. B Owens
To the mountaintop: my journey through the Civil Rights Movement: a New York Times book. Charlayne Hunter-Gault. 323.1196 HUN
Unbreak my heart: a memoir. Toni Braxton. B Braxton
Undisputed truth. Mike Tyson. B Tyson
Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson. Geoffrey C. Ward. B Johnson, DVD B Johnson
Up from history: the life of Booker T. Washington. Robert J. Norrell. B Washington
Venus and Serena Williams: a biography. Jacqueline Edmondson. B Williams
What becomes of the brokenhearted: a memoir. E. Lynn Harris. B Harris
What I know for sure. Tavis Smiley. B Smiley
While the world watched: a Birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the civil rights movement. Carolyn Maull McKinstry. B McKinstry
Willie Mays: the life, the legend. James S. Hirsch. B Mays
Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Valerie Boyd. B Hurston
Yes, chef: a memoir. Marcus Samuelsson. 641.5092 SAM

POETRY / LITERATURE

African-American classics. Y 741.5 AFR
Angles of ascent: a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry. 811.008 ANG
Ardency: a chronicle of the Amistad rebels … Kevin Lowell Young. 811 YOU
Bestiary: poems. Donika Kelly. 811.6 KEL
Bicycles: love poems. Nikki Giovanni. 811 GIO
\blak\ \al-fe bet\: poems. Mitchell L.H. Douglas. 811 DOU
The breakbeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop. 811.008 BRE
Celebrations: rituals of peace and prayer. Maya Angelou. 811 ANG, CD 811 ANG
Chasing Utopia: a hybrid. Nikki Giovanni. 811 GIO
Citizen: an American lyric. Claudia Rankine. 811.54 RAN
Collected poems. Countee Cullen. 811.54 CUL
Collected poems. Robert Hayden. 811 HAY
The cushion in the road: meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm’s way. Alice Walker. 814 WAL
Eyes with winged thoughts: poetry & images. Gordon Parks. 811 PAR
For the Confederate dead. Kevin Young. 811 YOU
Hard times require furious dancing: new poems. Alice Walker. 811 WAL
Hum. Jamaal May. 6 MAY
Making Callaloo: 25 years of Black literature. 810.8089 MAK
Morning haiku. Sonia Sanchez. 811 SAN
My people. Langston Hughes. Y 811 HUG
Native guard. Natasha Trethewey. 811 TRE
The 100 best African American poems. 811.008 ONE
One with others: a little book of her days. C.D. Wright. 811 WRI
The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. 811.008 OXF
S O S: poems 1961-2013. Amiri Baraka. 811.54 BAR
Silverchest. Carl Phillips. 811 PHI
Slave moth. Thylias Moss. 811 MOS
Spirited minds: African American books for our sons and our brothers. 016.8108 SPI
Splay anthem. Nathaniel Mackey. 811 MACK
Teahouse of the almighty. Patricia Smith. 811 SMI
Vintage Hughes. Langston Hughes. 811 HUG
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and other poems. Robin Coste Lewis. 811.6 LEW
We are the ones we have been waiting for: inner light in a time of darkness. Alice Walker. 814 WAL
The weary blues. Langston Hughes. 811 HUG
White girls. Hilton Als. 814 ALS
Wild hundreds. Nate Marshall. 811.6 MAR
Writings. James Weldon Johnson. 818 JOH

FICTION

The African American West: a century of short stories. 808.83 AFR
Alibi. Teri Woods. Fic WOO
All our names. Dinaw Mengestu. Fic MEN
Always true to you in my fashion. Valerie Wilson Wesley. Fic WES
Back channel. Stephen L. Carter. Fic CAR
Be careful what you pray for. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
The best of everything. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
Big girls do cry. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
The blackbirds. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
Bloodroot. Aaron Roy Even. Fic EVE
Boy, snow, bird. Helen Oyeyemi. Fic OYE
The buffalo soldier. Chris Bohjalian. Fic BOH
Butterscotch blues. Margaret Johnson-Hodge. Fic JOH
By the light of my father’s smile. Alice Walker. Fic WAL
Can’t stand the heat. Shelly Ellis. Fic ELL
The cheating curve. Paula T. Renfroe. Fic REN
Checkmate: the baddest chick. Nisa Santiago. Fic SAN
The choir director. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
The cigar factory: a novel of Charleston. Michele Moore. Fic MOO
Citizens creek. Lalita Tademy. Fic TAD, CD Fic TAD
Cold Rock River. J. L. Miles. Fic MIL
The color purple. Alice Walker. Fic WAL, Y Fic WAL, DVD Drama C
Dancing in the dark. Caryl Phillips. Fic PHI
Dark matter: a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora. 808.83 DAR
The darkest child. Delores Phillips. Fic PHI
Daughter. Asha Bandele. Fic BAN
Daughters of the stone. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. Fic LLA
Dear drama. Braya Spice. Fic SPI
Death before dishonor: a 50 Cent and Nikki Turner original. 50 Cent, Nikki Turner. Fic FIF
Debbie doesn’t do it anymore. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS
Decadence. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
A deeper love inside: the Porsche Santiaga story. Sister Souljah. Fic SOU
Delilah’s daughters. Angela Benson. Fic BEN
Destiny’s surrender. Beverly Jenkins. Large Type Fic JEN
Dirty rotten liar. Noire. Fic NOI
Dirty to the grave. Karen Williams. Fic WIL
The dry grass of August. Anna Jean Mayhew. Fic MAY, Y Fic MAY
Everyday people. Stewart O’Nan. Fic ONA
Face off: the baddest chick. Nisa Santiago. Fic SAN
The family business. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
Finding Gideon. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
Forever a hustler’s wife. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
Friday nights at Honeybee’s. Andrea Smith. Fic SMI
A gangster and a gentleman. Kiki Swinson, De’nesha Diamond. Fic SWI
Get it girls: a Harlem girl lost novel. Treasure Blue. Fic BLU
Getting to happy. Terry McMillan. Fic MACM, CD Fic MACM
Ghosts of Saint-Michel. Jake Lamar. Fic LAM
The girl who fell from the sky. Heidi W. Durrow. Fic DUR, CD Fic DUR
The glamorous life 2: all that glitters isn’t gold. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
God’s gym. John Edgar Wideman. Fic WID
The good lord bird. James McBride. Fic MACB, CD Fic MACB
Guard the throne. Nisa Santiago. Fic SAN
Hard revolution. George Pelecanos. Fic PEL
He had it coming. Camika Spencer. Fic SPE
Heist. Kiki Swinson, De’nesha Diamond. Fic SWI
The help. Kathryn Stockett. Fic STO
Hold me in contempt. Wendy Williams. Romance WIL
Home. Toni Morrison. Fic MOR, CD Fic MOR
Home across the road. Nancy Peacock. Fic PEA
A house divided. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
The house girl. Tara Conklin. Fic CON
House of light. Joyce Carol Thomas. Fic THO
A hustler’s wife. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
I, Alex Cross. James Patterson. Fic PAT
I almost forgot about you. Terry McMillan. Fic MACM
I can’t wait on God. Albert French. Fic FRE
If I can’t have you. Mary B. Morrison. Fic MOR
In my bedroom. Donna Hill. Fic HIL
In my sister’s house. Donald Welch. Fic WEL
Inside a silver box. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS
Internationally known. Kiki Swinson. Fic SWI
The interruption of everything. Terry McMillan. Fic MACM, CD Fic MACM
It’s all about the moon when the sun ain’t shining. Ernest Hill. Fic HIL
Jam on the vine. LaSonda Katrice Barnett. Fic BAR
John Henry Days. Colson Whitehead. Fic WHI
Jump at the sun. Kim McLarin. Fic MACL
Juneteenth. Ralph Ellison. Fic ELL
Justice for none. Gene Hackman. Fic HAC
The kid. Sapphire. Fic SAP
A killing in this town. Olympia Vernon. Fic VER
Kindred. Octavia E. Butler. Sci. Fic BUT
Kinship concealed: Amish Mennonite — African American family connections. Sharon Cranford, Dwight E. Roth. Fic CRA
The kitchen house. Kathleen Grissom. Fic GRI
The known world. Edward P. Jones. Fic JON, Spanish Lang. Fic JON, CD Fic JON
The last days of Ptolemy Grey. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS, CD Fic MOS
Lavina. Mary Marcus. Fic MAR
Lazaretto. Diane McKinney-Whetstone. Fic MACK
Let that be the reason. Vickie M. Stringer. Fic STR
Let’s stay together. J.J. Murray. Romance MUR
Life is short but wide. J. California Cooper. Fic COO
Like trees, walking. Ravi Howard. Fic HOW
Lita. Jervey Tervalon. Fic TER
Love, honor, and betray. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
A love of my own. E. Lynn Harris. Fic HAR
The man in 3B. Carl Weber. Fic WEB, Large Type Fic WEB
The man in my basement. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS, Large Type Fic MOS
The man who cried I am. John A. Williams. Fic WIL
Married to the game. Chunichi. Fic CHU
The men of Brewster Place. Gloria Naylor. Fic NAY
A mercy. Toni Morrison. Fic MOR, CD Fic MOR
Midnight: a gangster love story. Sister Souljah. Fic SOU
Most wanted. Kiki Swinson, Nikki Turner. Fic SWI
Mother of pearl. Melinda Haynes. Fic HAY
Mudbound. Hillary Jordan. Fic JOR
My fine lady. Yolanda Joe. Fic JOE
My Jim. Nancy Rawles. Fic RAW
Native son. Richard Wright. Fic WRI
Natural born hustler. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
Natural born liar. Noire. Fic NOI
The next phase of life. Charmaine R. Parker. Fic PAR
Nikki Turner presents A woman’s work: Street Chronicles. Fic NIK
One night. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
The orphan mother. Robert Hicks. Fic HIC
Out of the night that covers me. Pat Cunningham Devoto. Fic DEV
The perfect marriage. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB, Large Type Fic ROB
The personal history of Rachel Dupree. Ann Weisgarber. Fic WEI
The professor’s daughter. Emily Raboteau. Fic RAB
Pym. Mat Johnson. Fic JOH
Queen sugar. Natalie Baszile. Fic BAS
Recipe for love. Shamara Ray. Fic RAY
Red now and laters. Marcus J. Guillory. Fic GUI
Red River. Lalita Tademy. Fic TAD
Resurrecting midnight. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
The returned. Jason Mott. Fic MOT, Large Type Fic MOT
River Jordan. Augusta Trobaugh. Fic TRO
River season. Jim Black. Fic BLA
The sacrifice. Joyce Carol Oates. Fic OAT
Sag Harbor. Colson Whitehead. Fic WHI
Salvage the bones. Jesmyn Ward. Fic WAR
Sapphire’s grave. Hilda Gurley-Highgate. Fic GUR
See now then. Jamaica Kincaid. Fic KIN
Seen it all and done the rest. Pearl Cleage. Fic CLE
Silver sparrow. Tayari Jones. Fic JON
Sin of a woman. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
A sinful calling. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
Some sing, some cry. Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza. Fic SHA
Someone knows my name. Lawrence Hill. Fic HIL
Song yet sung. James McBride. Fic MACB, CD Fic MACB
Stand the storm. Breena Clarke. Fic CLA, CD Fic CLA
Street love: a Triple Crown anthology. Fic STR
Street soldier. Silhouettes. Fic SIL
Strivers Row. Kevin Baker. Fic BAK
The Supremes at Earl’s all-you-can-eat. Edward Kelsey Moore. Fic MOO, Large Type Fic MOO, CD Fic MOO
Sweetsmoke. David Fuller. Large Type Fic FUL
The taste of salt. Martha Southgate. Fic SOU
Third girl from the left. Martha Southgate. Fic SOU
Thug in me. Karen Williams. Fic WIL
True to the game II. Teri Woods. Fic WOO
True to the game III. Teri Woods. Fic WOO
The twelve tribes of Hattie. Ayana Mathis. Fic MAT, CD Fic MAT
Walk through darkness. David Anthony Durham. Fic DUR
The warmest December. Bernice L. McFadden. Fic MACF, Large Type Fic MACF
We are all welcome here. Elizabeth Berg. Fic BER
Wench. Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Fic PER, Large Type Fic PER
What doesn’t kill you. Virginia DeBerry. Fic DEB
What’s a woman to do? Victor McGlothin. Fic MACG
Who asked you? Terry McMillan. Large Type Fic MACM

MYSTERY

Black water rising. Attica Locke. Mystery LOC
Blackbird, farewell. Robert Greer. Mystery GRE
The blackbird papers. Ian Smith. Mystery SMI
Blonde faith. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
The blood red Indian Summer. David Handler. Mystery HAN
The cutting season. Attica Locke. Mystery LOC
A dark and deadly deception. Eleanor Taylor Bland. Mystery BLA
Deadly charm. Claudia Mair Burney. Mystery BUR
First of state. Robert Greer. Mystery GRE
In the night of the heat: a Tennyson Hardwick novel. Blair Underwood; Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes. Mystery UND
Little green: an Easy Rawlins mystery. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
The scribe. Matthew Guinn. Mystery GUI
Seven for a secret. Lyndsay Faye. Mystery FAY
The shimmering blond sister. David Handler. Mystery HAN
The sour cherry surprise. David Handler. Mystery HAN

GRAPHIC NOVELS

King. Ho Che Anderson. Graphic B King
The silence of our friends. Mark Long, Jim Demonakos. Graphic Fic LON

RELIGIOUS FICTION

Abraham’s well. Sharon Ewell Foster. Rel. Fic FOS
Anointed. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Betrayed. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Bring on the blessings. Beverly Jenkins. Rel. Fic JEN
Broken. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Chosen. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Church folk. Michele Andrea Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
Cover girls. T.D. Jakes. Rel. Fic JAK
Destined. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Divas of Damascus Road. Michelle Stimpson. Rel. Fic STI
Divine match-up. Jacquelin Thomas. Rel. Fic THO
The ex files. Victoria Christopher Murray. Rel. Fic MUR
Fifteen years. Kendra Norman-Bellamy. Rel. Fic NOR
Forever an ex. Victoria Christopher Murray. Rel. Fic MUR
Forgiven. Vanessa Miller. Rel. Fic MIL
Get you good. Rhonda Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
God only knows. Xavier Knight. Rel. Fic KNI
Holy rollers. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Humbled. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Last temptation. Michelle Stimpson. Rel. Fic STI
Love tornado. Mable John. Rel. Fic JOH
Mama’s boy. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Man enough for me. Rhonda Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
More church folk. Michele Andrea Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
My soul cries out. Sherri L. Lewis. Rel. Fic LEW
One way or another. Rhonda Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
The other side of dare. Vanessa Davis Griggs. Rel. Fic GRI
The other side of goodness. Vanessa Davis Griggs. Rel. Fic GRI
The perfect mistress. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Ray of hope. Vanessa Davis Griggs. Rel. Fic GRI
The replacement wife. Tiffany L. Warren. Rel. Fic WAR
Saved and single. Sheila Copeland. Rel. Fic COP
A second helping. Beverly Jenkins. Rel. Fic JEN
Sister Betty! God’s calling you, again. Pat G’Orge-Walker. Large Type Fic GOR
Something old, something new. Beverly Jenkins. Rel. Fic JEN
Stand your ground. Victoria Christopher Murray. Rel. Fic MUR
To Rome with love. Debra White Smith. Rel. Fic SMI, LT Fic SMI
The truth about love. Tia McCollors. Rel. Fic MACC
Wounded. Claudia Mair Burney. Rel. Fic BUR
Yesterday’s promise. Vanessa Miller. Rel. Fic MIL

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

All the right stuff. Walter Dean Myers. Y Fic MYE
The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. M. T. Anderson. Y Fic AND
Black, white, other: in search of Nina Armstrong. Joan Steinau Lester. Y Fic LES
Born in sin. Evelyn Coleman. Y Fic COL
Boy21. Matthew Quick. Y Fic QUI
Boyfriend season. Kelli London. Y Fic LON
Bright lights, dark nights. Stephen Emond. Y Fic EMO
Bronxwood. Coe Booth. Y Fic BOO
Brothers in arms (Bluford High). Paul Langan, Ben Alirez. Y Fic LAN
Cali boys: a boyfriend season novel. Kelli London. Y Fic LON
Calico Girl. Jerdine Nolen. Y Fic NOL
Call me by my name. John Ed Bradley. Y Fic BRA
Caught up in the drama. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Y Fic BIL
Chains. Laurie Halse Anderson. Y Fic AND, Y AUDIO CD AND
Cold as ice. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
Come August, come freedom: the bellows, the gallows, and the black general Gabriel. Gigi Amateau. Y Fic AMA
The crossover. Kwame Alexander. Y Fic ALE
Culture clash. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
Cy in chains. David L. Dudley. Y Fic DUD
Day of tears. Julius Lester. Y Fic LES
Dime. E.R. Frank. Y Fic FRA
Disgruntled. Asali Solomon. Y Fic SOL
Dope sick. Walter Dean Myers. Y Fic MYE
Drama queens. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Y Fic BIL
Fake ID. L.R. Giles. Y Fic GIL
Flygirl. Sherri L. Smith. Y Fic SMI
Forge. Laurie Halse Anderson. Y Fic AND
The freedom maze. Delia Sherman. Y Fic SHE
Friends ’til the end. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Y Fic BIL
Fair-weather friends. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Y Fic BIL
Foul trouble. John Feinstein. Y Fic FEI
The game of Love and Death. Martha Brockenbrough. Y Fic BRO
George Washington Carver: inventor and naturalist. Sam Wellman. Large Type Fic WEL
Girl singer. Mick Carlon. Y Fic CAR
Good fortune. Noni Carter. Y Fic CAR
He said, she said. Kwame Alexander. Y Fic ALE
Holidaze. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
How it went down. Kekla Magoon. Y Fic MAG
Invasion. Walter Dean Myers. Y Fic MYE
Juba! Walter Dean Myers. Y Fic MYE
Jump into the sky. Shelley Pearsall. Y Fic PEA, J PEA
Kendra. Coe Booth. Y Fic BOO
The legend of Buddy Bush. Shelia P. Moses. Large Type Fic MOS
Limos, lattes & my life on the fringe. Nancy Rue. Y Fic RUE
Little Peach. Peggy Kern. Y Fic KER
Make something of it. Stephanie Perry Moore. Y Fic MOO
A matter of souls. Denise Lewis Patrick. Y Fic PAT
The meltdown. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
My name is not Friday. Jon Walter. Y Fic WAL
New boy. Julian Houston. Y Fic HOU
Next. Kevin Waltman. Y Fic WAL
Not otherwise specified. Hannah Moskowitz. Y Fic MOS
November blues. Sharon M. Draper. Large Type Fic DRA
On the come up. Travis Hunter. Y Fic HUN
The other side of dark. Sarah Smith. Y Fic SMI
Pinned. Sharon G. Flake. Y Fic FLA
Pointe. Brandy Colbert. Y Fic COL
Pull. B.A. Binns. Y Fic BIN
Pull. Kevin Waltman. Y Fic WAL
Pushin’. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
Rucker Park setup. Paul Volponi. Y Fic VOL
See no color. Shannon Gibney. Y Fic GIB
Shooting star. Fredrick McKissack, Jr. Y Fic MACK
Small steps. Louis Sachar. Large Type Fic SAC
So, so hood. L. Divine. Y Fic DIV
Something like hope. Shawn Goodman. Y Fic GOO
Sweet, hereafter. Angela Johnson. Y Fic JOH
This way home. Wes Moore. Y Fic MOO
Way too much drama. Earl Sewell. Y Fic SEW
When I was the greatest. Jason Reynolds. Y Fic REY
Zero fade. Chris L. Terry. Y Fic TER

DVDS & VIDEOS

The African Americans: many rivers to cross. DVD 973.0496
Antwone Fisher. DVD Drama
ATL. DVD Drama A
Barack Obama. DVD B Obama
Been to the mountaintop. DVD 323.2296
Betty and Coretta. DVD Drama B
Brother outsider:the life of Bayard Rustin. DVD B Rustin
Citizen King. VIDEO B King
Coach Carter. DVD Drama C
The Cosby show. DVD Comedy C
Desert bayou. DVD 363.3492
Dreamgirls. DVD Drama D
Ella Fitzgerald forever Ella. VIDEO B Fitzgerald
The Express. DVD Drama E
Fires in the mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other identities. VIDEO Drama
Forgotten genius. DVD B Julian
42: the Jackie Robinson story. DVD Drama F, BLU Drama F
Freedom song. DVD Drama F
Gettin’ grown. DVD Drama G
Gifted hands: the Ben Carson story. DVD B Carson
Glory road. DVD Drama G
Go tell it on the mountain. DVD Drama
Good hair. DVD 646.724
Gospel Hill. DVD Drama G
The great debaters. DVD Drama G
I can do bad all by myself. DVD Comedy I
In remembrance of Martin. DVD B King
The Jackie Robinson story. DVD Drama J
Jumping the broom. DVD Comedy J
King: man of peace in a time of war. DVD B King
Life support. DVD Drama L
The lottery. DVD 379.26
Madea’s big happy family. DVD Comedy M
A man named Pearl. DVD 712.092
Meeting David Wilson. DVD 305.896
More than a game. DVD 796.323
The Morgan lacrosse story. DVD 796.347
Murder in Mississippi. DVD Drama M
Neshoba: the price of freedom. DVD 364.1523
Passing glory. DVD Drama P, VIDEO Drama P
President Barack Obama: the man and his journey. DVD B Obama
Pride. DVD Drama P
Proud. DVD Drama P
A raisin in the sun. DVD Drama R
The Rosa Parks story. DVD 973.0496
The secret life of bees. DVD Drama S
Slavery and the making of America. DVD 973.0496
Stand: what do you stand for? DVD 305.896
The Temptations. DVD Drama T
Their eyes were watching God. DVD Drama T
Thurgood. DVD Drama T
The Tuskegee airmen. DVD Drama T
Unchained memories. DVD 973.0496
The untold story of Emmett Louis Till. DVD 364.1523
The Vernon Johns story. DVD Drama V
Whoopi Goldberg. DVD B Goldberg
With all deliberate speed. DVD 379.263

CDS

The best of Harry Belafonte’s the long road to freedom: an anthology of black music. Harry Belafonte. CD P COLL BHB B-62
Get on board! underground railroad & civil rights freedom songs. Kim & Reggie Harris. CD P HARR GOB H-98
Genuine Negro jig. Carolina Chocolate Drops. CD P CARO GNJ C-52
Shakin’ a tailfeather. CD ZM SHAK ST M-40, Cass. ZM SHAK ST M-40
Twenty-five. Sweet Honey in the Rock. CD MA SWEE TWE S-51

REFERENCE

African American writers. R 810.9 AFR
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. R 909.04 AFR
Black literature criticism: classic and emerging black writers since 1950. Electronic Resource
Black women in America. R 920 BLA
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Electronic Resource
Gale library of daily life: slavery in America. Electronic Resource
Lift every voice: African American oratory, 1787-1900. R 973.0496 LIF
Notable Black American men. Electronic Resource
Reference library of Black America. R 305.896 REF
Who’s who among African Americans. Electronic Resource

PICTURE BOOKS

The bat boy & his violin. Gavin Curtis. Pic CUR
Be boy buzz. Bell Hooks. Pic HOO
Beauty, her basket. Sandra Belton. Pic BEL
Big Jabe. Jerdine Nolen. Pic NOL
Cassie’s word quilt. Faith Ringgold. Pic RIN
Coming on home soon. Jacqueline Woodson. Pic WOO
Dancing the Ring Shout! Kim L. Siegelson. Pic SIE
DeShawn days. Tony Medina. Pic MED
Do you know what I’ll do? Charlotte Zolotow. Pic ZOL
Faraway drums. Virginia Kroll. Pic KRO
Fishing day. Andrea Davis Pinkney. Pic PIN
Freedom on the menu: the Greensboro sit-ins. Carole Boston Weatherford. Pic WEA
Freedom Summer. Debbie Wiles. Pic WIL
Girls together. Sherley Anne Williams. Pic WIL
Goin’ someplace special. Patricia McKissack. Pic MACK
Going north. Janice N. Harrington. Pic HAR
Grandma’s hands. Dolores Johnson. Pic JOH
God bless the child. Billie Holiday. Pic HOL
Haircuts at Sleepy Sam’s. Michael R. Strickland. Pic STR
Hot city. Barbara Joosse. Pic JOO
Hot day on Abbott Avenue. Karen English. Pic ENG
I have heard of a land. Joyce Carol Thomas. Pic THO
Janna and the kings. Patricia Smith. Pic SMI
Jewels. Belinda Rochelle. Pic ROC
Joe-Joe’s first flight. Natasha Anastasia Tarpley. Pic TAR
Joe Louis, my champion. William Miller. Pic MIL
The Jump at the Sun treasury: an African American picture book collection. J 810.8 JUM
Just like Josh Gibson. Angela Johnson. Pic JOH
Li’l Dan, the drummer boy: a Civil War story. Romare Bearden. Pic BEA
Little Cliff and the porch people. Clifton L. Taulbert. Pic TAU
Nappy hair. Carolivia Herron. Pic HER
No mirrors in my Nana’s house. Ysaye M. Barnwell. Pic BAR
On Mardi Gras day. Fatima Shaik. Pic SHA
Papa’s mark. Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert. Pic BAT
The patchwork path: a quilt map to freedom. Bettye Stroud. Pic STR
Pictures for Miss Josie. Sandra Belton. Pic BEL
Shades of black: a celebration of our children. Sandra L. Pinkney. Pic PIN
Skin again. Bell Hooks. Pic HOO
Sky sash so blue. Libby Hathorn. Pic HAT
A strawbeater’s thanksgiving. Irene Smalls. Pic SMA
Summer sun risin’. W. Nikola-Lisa. Pic NIK
Summertime from Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin. Pic GER
Sweet music in Harlem. Debbie A. Taylor. Pic TAY
Sweet potato pie. Kathleen D. Lindsey. Pic LIN
A sweet smell of roses. Angela Johnson. Pic JOH
Take it to the hoop, Magic Johnson. Quincy Troupe. Pic TRO
Thunder Rose. Jerdine Nolen. Pic NOL
Uptown. Bryan Collier. Pic COL
Virgie goes to school with us boys. Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard. Pic HOW
Why heaven is far away. Julius Lester. Pic LES

EASY READERS

Almost to freedom. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. E NEL
A band of angels: a story inspired by the Jubilee Singers. Deborah Hopkinson. E HOP
A bus of our own. Freddi Williams Evans. E EVA
Circle unbroken: the story of a basket and its people. Margot Theis Raven. E RAV
Civil War days. Ellen Weiss. E WEI
Faraway home. Jane Kurtz. E KUR
In the time of the drums. Kim L. Siegelson. E SIE
The Invisible Princess. Faith Ringgold. E RIN
Up the learning tree. Marcia Vaughan. E VAU

CHILDREN’S FICTION

Abraham’s battle: a novel of Gettysburg. Sara Harrell Banks. J BAN
Bud, not Buddy. Christopher Paul Curtis. J CUR
Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North. Patricia McKissack. J MACK
Double Dutch. Sharon M. Draper. J DRA
The dream bearer. Walter Dean Myers. J MYE
Flying free. Sharon Dennis Wyeth. J WYE
Forty acres and maybe a mule. Harriette Gillem Robinet. J ROB
Grandma’s general store: the Ark. Dorothy Carter. J CAR
Hush. Jacqueline Woodson. J WOO
Junebug and the Reverend. Alice Mead. J MEA
Missy Violet & me. Barbara Hathaway. J HAT
No laughter here. Rita Williams-Garcia. J WIL
Numbering all the bones. Ann Rinaldi. J RIN
The Old African. Julius Lester. J LES
One true friend. Joyce Hansen. J HAN
The red rose box. Brenda Woods. J WOO
The rock and the river. Kekla Magoon. J MAG
Roll of thunder, hear my cry. Mildred D. Taylor. J Tay Newbery, J AUDIO CD, J AUDIO Cassette
Send one angel down. Virginia Frances Schwartz. J SCH
Some friend. Marie Bradby. J BRA
The starplace. Vicki Grove. J GRO
Storm warriors. Elisa Carbone. J CAR
Strawberry moon. Karen English. J ENG
Time pieces: the book of times. Virginia Hamilton. J HAM
Yankee girl. Mary Ann Rodman. J ROD

CHILDREN’S POETRY, LITERATURE, & FOLKTALES

Angel to angel: a mother’s gift of love. Walter Dean Myers. J 811 MYE
Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl. Virginia Hamilton. E 398.24 HAM
Carver: a life in poems. Marilyn Nelson. J 811 NEL
Come Sunday. Nikki Grimes. J 811 GRI
Ellington was not a street. Ntozake Shange. Pic SHA
For the love of the game: Michael Jordan and me. Eloise Greenfield. E 811 GRE
In daddy’s arms I am tall: African Americans celebrating fathers. J 811.008 IND
Isn’t my name magical?: sister and brother poems. James Berry. J 811 BER
Jump back, honey: the poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. J 811 DUN
Make a joyful sound: poems for children by African-American poets. J 811.008 MAK
My man Blue: poems. Nikki Grimes. E 811 GRI
The other side: Shorter poems. Angela Johnson. J 811 JOH
A ring of tricksters: animal tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa. Virginia Hamilton. J 398.24 HAM
The secret of the stones: a folktale. Robert D. San Souci. J 398.21 SAN
Sure as sunrise: stories of Bruh Rabbit & his walkin’ talkin’ friends. Alice McGill. J 398.24 MACG
Sweet words so brave: the story of African American literature. Barbara K. Curry and James Michael Brodie. J 810.9 CUR
‘Twas the night b’fore Christmas: an African-American version. J 811 ROS
Uncle Remus: the complete tales. Julius Lester. J 398.24 LES
Wiley and the Hairy Man. Judy Sierra. J 398.21 SIE
Words with wings: a treasury of African-American poetry and art. J 811.008 WOR

CHILDREN’S NONFICTION

African American military heroes. Jim Haskins. J 923.5 HAS
African-Americans in the Old West. Tom McGowen. J 978 MACG
The Africans. Jen Green. J 973.04 GRE
All around town: the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts. Dinah Johnson. J 779 JOH
The Amistad slave revolt and American abolition. Karen Zeinert. J 973.57 ZEI
Black hands, white sails: the story of African-American whalers. Patricia C. McKissack & Fredrick L. McKissack. J 693.2 MACK
The Black regiment of the American Revolution. Linda Crotta Brennan. J 973.34 BRE
Bound for glory: from the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1930. Kerry Candaele. J 973.04 CAN
Breaking ground, breaking silence: the story of New York’s African burial ground. Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan. J 305.56 HAN
Civil rights marches. Linda and Charles George. J 973.92 GEO
Civil War days: discover the past with exciting projects, games, activities, and recipes. David C. King. J 973.71 KIN
Coming together: celebrations for African American families. J 394.26 COL
Cooking. Angela Shelf Medearis and Michael R. Medearis. J 641.59 MED
Cracking the wall: the struggles of the Little Rock Nine. Eileen Lucas. J 379.263 LUC
Crafts that celebrate Black history. Kathy Ross. J 745.594 ROS
Dance. Angela Shelf Medearis and Michael R. Medearis. J 793.3 MED
A drawing in the sand: a story of African American art. Jerry Butler. J 704.03 BUT
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The Fourteenth Amendment: equal protection under the law. David L. Hudson, Jr. J 342.73 HUD
Free at last!: stories and songs of Emancipation. Doreen Rappaport. J 305.896 RAP
Freedom walkers: the story of the Montgomery bus boycott. Russell Freedman. J 323.1 FRE
Grandma Lois remembers: an African-American family story. Ann Morris. E 973.04 MOR
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Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. Michael Martin. J 973.71 MAR
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Hush songs: African American lullabies. Joyce Carol Thomas. J 781.5 THO
I have a dream. Martin Luther King, Jr. J 305.8 KIN
I see the rhythm. Toyomi Igus. J 780.89 IGU
In praise of our fathers and our mothers: a black family treasury by outstanding authors and artists. J 306.85 INP
Into the land of freedom: African Americans in Reconstruction. Meg Greene. J 973.8 GRE
Let my people go: Bible stories told by a freeman of color to his daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-16. Patricia & Fredrick McKissack. J 221.95 MACK
Lincoln, slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Carin T. Ford. J 973.71 FOR
Music. Angela Shelf Medearis, Michael R. Medearis. J 780.89 MED
The school is not white!: a true story of the civil rights movement. Doreen Rappaport. J 379.263 RAP
A slave family. Bobbie Kalman. J 973.2 KAL
Welcome to Addy’s world, 1864: growing up during America’s Civil War. Susan Sinnott. J 973.71 SIN
York’s adventures with Lewis and Clark: an African-American’s part in the great expedition. Rhoda Blumberg. J 917.804 BLU

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Colin Powell. John Passaro. JB Powell
Condoleezza Rice: being the best. Mary Dodson Wade. JB Rice
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A day in the life of a colonial sailmaker. Laurie Krebs. EB Forten
Denzel Washington. Alex Simmons. JB Washington
The diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse. JB Taylor
Donovan McNabb. Michael Bradley. JB McNabb
Duke Ellington: the piano prince and his orchestra. Andrea Davis Pinkney. EB Ellington
Five brilliant scientists. Lynda Jones. E 509 JON
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Frederick Douglass. John Passaro. JB Douglass
A free Black girl before the Civil War: the diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854. JB Forten
George Washington Carver: a photo biography. John Riley. EB Carver
Great African Americans in the arts. Carlotta Hacker. J 700.92 HAC
Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom. Catherine Clinton. JB Tubman
I was born a slave: the story of Harriet Jacobs. Jennifer Fleischner. JB Jacobs
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: powerhouse with a pen. Catherine A. Welch. JB Wells-Barnett
If I only had a horn: young Louis Armstrong. Roxanne Orgill. EB Armstrong
I’ve seen the promised land: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Walter Dean Myers. EB King
Jackie Robinson: strong inside and out. JB Robinson
James Baldwin. James Tackach. JB Baldwin
James Earl Jones. Judy L. Hasday. JB Jones
Knockin’ on wood: starring Peg Leg Bates. Lynne Barasch. EB Bates
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Leon’s story. Leon Walter Tillage. JB Tillage
Major Taylor, champion cyclist. Lesa Cline-Ransome. EB Taylor
Marcus Garvey: Black nationalist. Peggy Caravantes. JB Garvey
Maritcha: a nineteenth-century American girl. Tonya Bolden. JB Lyons
Muhammad Ali, the man who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Ntozake Shange. EB Ali
Native son: the story of Richard Wright. Joyce Hart. JB Wright
A picture book of Thurgood Marshall. David A. Adler. EB Marshall
Promises to keep: how Jackie Robinson changed America. Sharon Robinson. JB Robinson
Romare Bearden: collage of memories. Jan Greenberg. J 709.2 GRE
Rosa Parks. L.S. Summer. JB Parks
Satchel Paige. Lesa Cline-Ransome. JB Paige
Serena Williams. Michael Bradley. JB Williams
Sojourner Truth. Peter & Connie Roop. JB Truth
Story painter: the life of Jacob Lawrence. John Duggleby. JB Lawrence
A strong right arm: the story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson. Michelle Y. Green. JB Johnson
Talkin’ about Bessie: the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman. Nikki Grimes. JB Coleman
Talking with Tebe: Clementine Hunter, memory artist. JB Hunter
Toni Morrison. Diane Patrick-Wexler. JB Morrison
Venus Williams. Michael Bradley. JB Williams
Vision of beauty: the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Kathryn Lasky. EB Walker
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. Russell Freedman. JB Anderson
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