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
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
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