Black History

13 days in Ferguson. Ronald Johnson. 977.8 JOH
1619: Jamestown and the forging of American democracy. James Horn. 975.542 HOR
African American quotations. Richard Newman. 810.8089 AFR
Afropessimism. Frank B. Wilderson III. 378.12 WIL
After Jackie: fifteen pioneers who helped change the face of baseball. Jeffrey S. Copeland. 796.357 COP
All day: a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island. Liza Jessie Peterson. 365.666 PET
America on fire: the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s. Elizabeth Hinton. 305.8 HIN
American founders: how people of African descent established freedom in the New World. Christina Proenza-Coles. 973.0496 PRO
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
Backlash: what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America. George Yancy. 305.896 YAN
Bad feminist: essays. Roxane Gay. 814 GAY
Barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo”. Zora Neale Hurston. Large Type 306.362 HUR
The Battle of Negro Fort: the rise and fall of a fugitive slave community. Matthew J. Clavin. 973.51 CLA
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
Becoming brave: finding the courage to pursue racial justice now. Brenda Salter McNeil. 261.8 MACN
Been there, done that: family wisdom for modern times. Al Roker, Deborah Roberts. 070.43 ROK
Beyond glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a world on the brink. David Margolick. 796.83 MAR
Big Black: stand at Attica: four days in 1971 changed the course of American history. Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth. Graphic 365.97 SMI, Ebook
Bind us apart: how enlightened Americans invented racial segregation. Nicholas Guyatt. 305.8 GUY
The black agenda: bold solutions for a broken system. 305.896 BLA
The black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family. Gail Lumet Buckley. 929.2 BUC
The Black church: this is our story, this is our song. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 277.3 GAT
The Black Civil War soldier: a visual history of conflict and citizenship. Deborah Willis. 973.7415 WIL
Black Detroit: a people’s history of self-determination. Herb Boyd. 977.434 BOY
Black ghost of empire: the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation. Kris Manjapra. 306.362 MAN
The Black history of the White House. Clarence Lusane. 975.3 LUS
Black is the body: stories from my grandmother’s time, my mother’s time, and mine. Emily Bernard. 305.488 BERThe black list. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. 920 GRE
Black lives matter. Sue Bradford Edwards, Duchess Harris. Y 305.896 EDW
The Black Panther Party: a graphic novel history. David F. Walker. Graphic 322.4 WAL
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
Blind spot. Teju Cole. 779 COL
Blood at the root: a racial cleansing in America. Patrick Phillips. 305.896 PHI
The blood of Emmett Till. Timothy B. Tyson. 364.134 TYS
The bone and sinew of the land: America’s forgotten black pioneers & the struggle for equality. Anna-Lisa Cox. 973.0496 COX
A bound woman is a dangerous thing: the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland. DaMaris B. Hill. 305.488 HIL
Brothers in arms: the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s forgotten heroes. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton. 940.5421 ABD
Brown v. Board of Education: a fight for simple justice. Susan Goldman Rubin. Y 344.079 RUB
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
Chamber music: Wu-Tang and America (in 36 pieces). Will Ashon. 782.4216 ASH
Children of fire: a history of African Americans. Thomas C. Holt. 973.0496 HOL
Chocolate City: a history of race and democracy in the nation’s capital. Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove. 305.896 ASC
Chokehold: policing black men. Paul Butler. 363.23 BUT
A colony in a nation. Chris Hayes. 364.3496 HAY
The color of abolition: how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation. Linda Hirshman. 973.7114 HIR
The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America. Gerald Horne. 973.31 HOR
Courage is contagious: and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama. 973.932 COU
The cross and the lynching tree. James H. Cone. 277.3 CON
Crossing the line: a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever. Kareem Rosser. 796.353 ROS
Cry like a man: fighting for freedom from emotional incarceration. Jason Wilson. 248.842 WIL
Daisy Turner’s kin: an African American family saga. Jane C. Beck. 929.2 BEC
Dance your dance: 8 steps to unleash your passion and live your dream. Laurieann Gibson. 158.1 GIB
Dark places of the earth: the voyage of the slave ship Antelope. Jonathan M. Bryant. 342.73 BRY
The dawn of Detroit: a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the city of the straits. Tiya Miles. 977.434 MIL
The day freedom died: the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction. Charles Lane. 976.367 LAN
Dear church: a love letter from a Black preacher to the Whitest denomination in the U.S. Lenny Duncan. 261.83 DUN
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
Defining moments in Black history: reading between the lies. Dick Gregory. 973.0496 GRE
Delta epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi. Ellen B. Meacham. 362.5 MEA
Denmark Vesey’s garden: slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy. Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts. 975.791 KYT
Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America. Gilbert King. 364.1532 KIN
The devil you know: a Black power manifesto. Charles M. Blow. 323.1196 BLO
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
Driving while Black: African American travel and the road to civil rights. Gretchen Sorin. 323.1196 SOR
Drop the ball: achieving more by doing less. Tiffany Dufu. 650.1082 DUF
Ebony and ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities. Craig Steven Wilder. 378.73 WIL
Eisenhower vs. Warren: the battle for civil rights and liberties. James F. Simon. 347.7326 SIM
Encyclopedia of black comics. Sheena C. Howard. 741.503 HOW
The end of policing. Alex S. Vitale. 363.209 VIT
The essential Kerner Commission report. 363.323 UNI
Excessive use of force: one mother’s continuing struggle against police brutality and misconduct. Loretta P. Prater. 363.232 PRA
F*ck your diet: and other things my thighs tell me. Chloé Hilliard. 818.6 HIL
The failed promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Robert S. Levine. 973.8 LEV
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
Finding my father: how the gospel heals the pain of fatherlessness. Blair Linne. 231.1 LIN
Five days: the fiery reckoning of an American city. Wes Moore. 363.32 MOO
A fool’s errand: creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump. Lonnie G. Bunch III. 069.09 BUN
For such a time as this: hope and forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre. Sharon Risher. 364.1523 RIS
The forgotten first: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the breaking of the NFL color barrier. Keyshawn Johnson. 796.332 JOH
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 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
A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America’s schools. Rachel Devlin. 379.263 DEV
Glory: magical visions of Black beauty. Kahran & Regis Bethencourt. 779.2 BET
Go ahead in the rain: notes to A Tribe Called Quest. Hanif Abdurraqib. 782.4216 ABD
Goat Castle: a true story of murder, race, and the gothic South. Karen L. Cox. 364.1523 COX
Good kids, bad city: a story of race and wrongful conviction in America. Kyle Swenson. 345.7 SWE
Gotta go gotta flow: life, love, and lust on Chicago’s South Side from the seventies. Patricia Smith. 779 SMI
Grace will lead us home: the Charleston Church Massacre and the hard, inspiring journey to forgiveness. Jennifer Berry Hawes. 364.1523 HAW
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: the four hundred year history from Dutch village to capital of black America. Jonathan Gill. 974.71 GIL
Hattiesburg: an American city in black and white. William Sturkey. 976.206 STU
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
High-risers: Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing. Ben Austen. 353.585 AUS
Holding up your corner: talking about race in your community. F. Willis Johnson. 200.89 JOH
A house built by slaves: African American visitors to the Lincoln White House. Jonathan W. White. 973.7 WHI
How to fight racism: courageous Christianity and the journey toward racial justice. Jemar Tisby. 261.8 TIS
How to make a slave and other essays. Jerald Walker. 305.896 WAL
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America: essays. Kiese Laymon. 814.54 LAY
How we can win: race, history and changing the money game that’s rigged. Kimberly Jones. 305.896 JON
How we fight white supremacy: a field guide to Black resistance. Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin. 323.1196 SOL
I am not your negro. James Baldwin. 323.1196 BAL
I can’t date Jesus: love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I’ve put my faith in Beyoncé. Michael Arceneaux. 306.766 ARC
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. 306.362 IND
The internal enemy: slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832. Alan Taylor. 975.503 TAY
The interpreter. Alice Kaplan. 940.5403 KAP
Invisible no more: police violence against black women and women of color. Andrea J. Ritchie. 363.232 RIT
It’s life as I see it: black cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980. 741.5 ITS
Just us: an American conversation. Claudia Rankine. 305.896 RAN
Kennedy and King: the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights. Steven Levingston. 973.922 LEV
Killing the messenger: a story of radical faith, racism’s backlash, and the assassination of a journalist. Thomas Peele. 364.1523 PEE
The last negroes at Harvard: the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever. Kent Garrett, Jeanne Ellsworth. 378.1982 GAR
Learning from the Germans: race and the memory of evil. Susan Neiman. 305.8 NEI
Let the people see: the story of Emmett Till. Elliott J. Gorn. 364.134 GOR
Letters to an incarcerated brother: encouragement, hope, and healing for inmates and their loved ones. Hill Harper. 365.6092 HAR
Life, I swear: intimate stories from Black women on identity, healing, and self-trust. 155.2 LIF
Lift every voice: the NAACP and the making of the Civil Rights Movement. Patricia Sullivan. 973.0496 SUL
The little book of big lies: a journey into inner fitness. Tina Lifford. 155.2 LIF
A little devil in America: notes in praise of Black performance. Hanif Abdurraqib. 791.0899 ABD
Long time coming: reckoning with race in America. Michael Eric Dyson. 305.8 DYS, CD 305.8 DYS
The long walk to freedom: runaway slave narratives. 306.362 LON
The lost education of Horace Tate: uncovering the hidden heroes who fought for justice in schools. Vanessa Siddle Walker. 379.263 WAL
Loving: interracial intimacy in America and the threat to White supremacy. Sheryll Cashin. 306.84 CAS
Make good the promises: reclaiming Reconstruction and its legacies. 305.896 MAK
The making of African America: the four great migrations. Ira Berlin. 973.0496 BER
Making our way home: the Great Migration and the Black American dream. Blair Imani. 973.0496 IMA
The matter of black lives: writing from the New Yorker. 305.896 MAT
The meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own. 973.932 MEA
Medical apartheid. Harriet A. Washington. 174.28 HAR
Message to our folks: the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Paul Steinbeck. 784.4 STE
Mindful of race: transforming racism from the inside out. Ruth King. 294.35 KIN
Mine eyes have seen: bearing witness to the civil rights struggle. Bob Adelman. 323.1196 ADE
Mother to son: letters to a Black boy on identity and hope. Jasmine Holmes. 248.82 HOL
The movement: the African American struggle for civil rights. Thomas C. Holt. 323.1196 HOL
“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
Never caught: the Washingtons’ relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge. Erica Armstrong Dunbar. 306.362 DUN
The new abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel. Gary Dorrien. 323.1196 DOR
The new Black West: photographs from America’s only touring Black rodeo. Gabriela Hasbun. 791.84 HAS
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
Of blood and sweat: Black lives and the making of White power and wealth. Clyde W. Ford. 306.362 FOR
On account of race: the Supreme Court, white supremacy, and the ravaging of African American voting rights. Lawrence Goldstone. 342.73 GOL
On Juneteenth. Annette Gordon-Reed. 394.263 GOR, CD 394.263 GOR, Ebook, EAudiobook
On the run: fugitive life in an American city. Alice Goffman. 364.3496 GOF
One person, no vote: how not all voters are treated equally. Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden. Y 324.62 AND
One person, no vote: how voter suppression is destroying our democracy. Carol Anderson. 324.62 AND
Open season: legalized genocide of colored people. Ben Crump. 364.3496 CRU
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 time is now: power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America. Stacey Abrams. 324.62 ABR
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
Parable of the brown girl: the sacred lives of girls of color. Khristi Lauren Adams. 259.23 ADA
A peculiar indifference: the neglected toll of violence on black America. Elliott Currie. 305.8 CUR
Permission to dream. Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas. 158.1 GAR
Please don’t sit on my bed in your outside clothes: essays. Phoebe Robinson. 814.6 ROB
Please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for Blacks to succeed. Jason L. Riley. 305.896 RIL
Policing the Black man: arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment. 364.3496 POL
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 purpose of power: how we come together when we fall apart. Alicia Garza. 303.484 GAR
Pushout: the criminalization of Black girls in schools. Monique W. Morris. Y 371.829 MOR
The race beat: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation. Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff. 070.449 ROB
Race for profit: how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. 363.51 TAY
The rage of innocence: how America criminalizes Black youth. Kristin Henning. 364.36 HEN
Raise a fist, take a knee: race and the illusion of progress in modern sports. John Feinstein. 796.089 FEI
Read until you understand: the profound wisdom of Black life and literature. Farah Jasmine Griffin. 810.9896 GRI
Reawakened: activate your congregation to spark lasting change. Glen Guyton. 250 GUY
The religious instruction of the negroes in the United States. Charles Colcock Jones. 268.089 JON
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
Revolution in our time: the Black Panther Party’s promise to the people. Kekla Magoon. Y 322.42 MAG
Riding Jane Crow: African American women on the American railroad. Miriam Thaggert. 305.896 THA
Righteous troublemakers: untold stories of the social justice movement in America. Al Sharpton. 323.092 SHA
Rise and grind: outperform, outwork, and outhustle your way to a more successful and rewarding life. Daymond John. 650.1 JOH
Rise up: confronting a country at the crossroads. Al Sharpton. 973.933 SHA
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
Say it loud!: on race, law, history, and culture. Randall Kennedy. 342.7308 KEN
Searching for black Confederates: the Civil War’s most persistent myth. Kevin M. Levin. 973.742 LEV
The second: race and guns in a fatally unequal America. Carol Anderson. 344.0533 AND
Separate and unequal: the Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism. Steven M. Gillon. 305.896 GIL
Separate: the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s journey from slavery to segregation. Steve Luxenberg. 342.0873 LUX
Shook one: anxiety playing tricks on me. Charlamagne Tha God. 153.8 THA
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
Smoketown: the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance. Mark Whitaker. 305.896 WHI
So you want to talk about race. Ijeoma Oluo. 305.8 OLU
Soar!: build your vision from the ground up. T.D. Jakes. 261.85 JAK
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
Soul care in African American practice. Barbara L. Peacock. 277.3083 PEA
Soul of a nation: art in the age of Black power. 700.89 SOU
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
State of emergency: how we win in the country we built. Tamika D. Mallory. 305.896 MAL
Stay woke: a people’s guide to making all Black lives matter. Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts Smith. 323.1196 LOP
Stolen justice: the struggle for African American voting rights. Lawrence Goldstone. Y 324.62 GOL
Sundown towns: a hidden dimension of American racism. James W. Loewen. 305.8 LOE
Surviving Southampton: African American women and resistance in Nat Turner’s community. Vanessa M. Holden. 306.362 HOL
Suspicion nation: the inside story of the Trayvon Martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it. Lisa Bloom. 363.23 BLO
Sweet Home Cafe cookbook: a celebration of African American cooking. Albert G. Lukas, Jessica B. Harris. 641.5929 LUK
Sweet taste of liberty: a true story of slavery and restitution in America. W. Caleb McDaniel. 306.362 MACD
Sweetie pie’s cookbook: soulful Southern recipes, from my family to yours. Robbie “Miss Robbie” Montgomery. 641.592 MON
Tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white America. Michael Eric Dyson. 305.896 DYS
The thin light of freedom: the Civil War and emancipation in the heart of America. Edward L. Ayers. 973.73 AYE
Things that make white people uncomfortable. Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin. 305.896 BEN
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
This is the fire: what I say to my friends about racism. Don Lemon. 305.896 LEM, CD 305.896 LEM
This stops today: Eric Garner’s mother seeks justice after losing her son. Gwen Carr. 363.232 CAR
This will be my undoing: living at the Intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America. Morgan Jerkins. 305.488 JER, EAudiobook
Through darkness to light: photographs along the Underground Railroad. Jeanine Michna-Bales. 973.7115 MIC
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
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
Truevine: two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother’s quest: a true story of the Jim Crow South. Beth Macy. 791.3 MAC, Large Type 791.3 MAC
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
Twice as hard: navigating Black stereotypes and creating space for success. Opeyemi Sofoluke, Raphael Sofoluke. 650.1089 SOF
Twice forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an oral history. David P. Cline. 951.9042 CLI
Unapologetic: a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for our movement. Charlene A. Carruthers. 305.4889 CAR, Ebook, Eaudiobook
Uncomfortable conversations with a black man. Emmanuel Acho. 305.8 ACH, Large Type 305.8 ACH, Eaudiobook
Uncommon marriage: learning about lasting love and overcoming life’s obstacles together. Tony & Lauren Dungy. 248.4 DUN
Unexampled courage: the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring. Richard Gergel. 323.1196 GER
The unlevel playing field: a documentary history of the African American experience in sport. 796.089 UNL
Unseen: unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives. 973.0496 UNS
Urban apologetics: restoring Black dignity with the gospel. 239.9 URB
Vanguard: how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all. Martha S. Jones. 323.34 JON
The Wall of Respect: public art and Black liberation in 1960s Chicago. 751.73 WAL
Wandering in strange lands: a daughter of the Great Migration reclaims her roots. Morgan Jerkins. 305.896 JER
The war before the war: fugitive slaves and the struggle for America’s soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Andrew Delbanco. 973.7115 DEL
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America’s great migration. Isabel Wilkerson. 973.0496 WIL
We are each other’s harvest: celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy. Natalie Baszile. 630.896 BAS
We are not yet equal: understanding our racial divide. Carol Anderson. Y 305.896 AND
We were eight years in power: an American tragedy. Ta-Nehisi Coates. 973.932 COA
What the hell do you have to lose?: Trump’s war on civil rights. Juan Williams. 323.1196 WIL
What truth sounds like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and our unfinished conversation about race in America. Michael Eric Dyson. 305.8 DYS
Whatever it takes: Geoffrey Canada’s quest to change Harlem and America. Paul Tough. 362.57 TOU
When evil lived in Laurel: the “White Knights” and the murder of Vernon Dahmer. Curtis Wilkie. 305.8 WIL
The Whiteness of wealth: how the tax system impoverishes Black Americans–and how we can fix it. Dorothy A. Brown. 343.7304 BRO
Who will be a witness: igniting activism for God’s justice, love, and deliverance. Drew G. I. Hart. 261.8 HAR
Who will pay reparations on my soul?: essays. Jesse McCarthy. 305.8 MACC
Wholeness: winning in life from the inside out. Touré Roberts. 248.4 ROB
The window seat: notes from a life in motion. Aminatta Forna. 814.6 FOR
Without mercy: the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South. David Beasley. 364.66 BEA
The woman God created you to be: finding success through faith – spiritually, personally and professionally. Kimberla Lawson Roby. 248.843 ROB
The word: Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading and writing: interviews. 810.8 WOR
You can keep that to yourself: a comprehensive list of what not to say to black people, for well-intentioned people of pallor. Adam Smyer. 817.008 SMY
You look so much better in person: true stories of absurdity and success. Al Roker. 070.43 ROK
You’ll never believe what happened to Lacey: crazy stories about racism. Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar. 305.896 RUF

BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR

42 faith: the rest of the Jackie Robinson story. Ed Henry. B Robinson
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: the story behind an American friendship. Russell Freedman. Y 973.7092 FRE
Ali: a life. Jonathan Eig. B Ali
Alice Walker: a life. Evelyn C. White. B Walker
All blood runs red: the legendary life of Eugene Bullard– boxer, pilot, soldier, spy. Phil Keith. B Bullard
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
Arthur Ashe: a life. Raymond Arsenault. B Ashe
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
Bad motherfucker: the life and movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the coolest man in Hollywood. Gavin Edwards. B Jackson
Barack and Michelle: portrait of an American marriage. Christopher Andersen. B Obama
Be free or die: the amazing story of Robert Smalls’ escape from slavery to Union hero. Cate Lineberry. 973.8092 LIN
The beautiful ones. Prince. B Prince
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
Before I forget: love, hope, help, and acceptance in our fight against Alzheimer’s. B. Smith, Dan Gasby. 362.1968 SMI
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
The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America’s law enforcement. Matthew Horace, Ron Harris. 363.2092 HOR
The Black Bruins: the remarkable lives of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett. James W. Johnson. 796.092 JOH
Black maestro. Joe Drape. B Winkfield
Black man in a white coat: a doctor’s reflections on race and medicine. Damon Tweedy. B Tweedy
Black radical: the life and times of William Monroe Trotter. Kerri K. Greenidge. 323.092 GRE
The bona fide legend of Cool Papa Bell: speed, grace, and the Negro Leagues. Lonnie Wheeler. 796.357 WHE
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. Kate Larson. B Tubman
Breathe: a letter to my sons. Imani Perry. B Perry
The bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama. David Remnick. B Obama
Brother, I’m dying. Edwidge Danticat. B Danticat, CD B Danticat
Brother Robert: growing up with Robert Johnson. Annye C. Anderson. 782.4216 AND
The butterfly effect: how Kendrick Lamar ignited the soul of Black America. Marcus J. Moore. 782.4216 MOO
Called to rise: a life in faithful service to the community that made me. David O. Brown. 363.2092 BRO
Can’t nothing bring me down: chasing myself in the race against time. Ida Keeling. B Keeling, EAudiobook
Carrie Mae Weems. 770 CAR
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
Conquering the Pacific: an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery. Andrés Reséndez. 959.901 RES
The cook up: a crack rock memoir. D. Watkins. 364.177 WAT
Courage to soar: a body in motion, a life in balance. Simone Biles. Y 796.44 BIL, Ebook, Eaudiobook
Crossroads: the life and afterlife of blues legend Robert Johnson. Tom Graves. B Johnson
Cuz: or the life and times of Michael A. Danielle Allen. 305.242 ALL, Large Type 305.242 ALL
Dapper Dan: made in Harlem: a memoir. Daniel R. Day. 746.92 DAY
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
The deeper the roots: a memoir of hope and home. Michael Tubbs. B Tubbs
Dr. J: the autobiography. Julius Erving. B Erving
Dressed in dreams: a black girl’s love letter to the power of fashion. Tanisha C. Ford. 391 FOR
Duke: a life of Duke Ellington. Terry Teachout. B Ellington
The echo from Dealey Plaza: the true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK. Abraham Bolden. 363.2092 BOL
Elizabeth and Hazel: two women of Little Rock. David Margolick. 379.263 MAR
Eloquent rage: a Black feminist discovers her superpower. Brittney Cooper. 305.4889 COO
Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
Fights: one boy’s triumph over violence. Joel Christian Gill. Y 741.5 GIL, Ebook
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
5 Black Women, Inc.: 25 stories that gave birth to a company. Annette Y. Britton. Ind. Coll. B Britton
Floating in a most peculiar way. Louis Chude-Sokei. B Chude-Sokei
Frederick Douglass. Peter Burchard. B Douglass
Frederick Douglass: America’s prophet. D.H. Dilbeck. B Douglass
Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom. David W. Blight. B Douglass
Free Cyntoia: my search for redemption in the American prison system. Cyntoia Brown-Long. 365.6092 BRO
From the hood to the holler: a story of separate worlds, shared dreams, and the fight for America’s future. Charles Booker. B Booker
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
Heavy: an American memoir. Kiese Laymon. B Laymon
The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family. Annette Gordon-Reed. B Hemings, CD B Hemings
Higher is waiting. Tyler Perry. 277.3083 PER
The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood. Helene Cooper. B Cooper
How we fight for our lives: a memoir. Saeed Jones. B Jones
I ain’t studdin’ ya: my American blues story. Bobby Rush. 781.643 RUS
I am the new black. Tracy Morgan. B Morgan
I see the promised land. Arthur Flowers, Manu Chitraker, Guglielmo Rossi. Graphic B King
I will not fear: my story of a lifetime of building faith under fire. Melba Pattillo Beals. 379.263 BEA
Ice: a memoir of gangster life and redemption–from South Central to Hollywood. Ice-T. B Ice-T
Ida B. the queen: the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells. Michelle Duster, Hannah Giorgis. 323.092 DUS
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
I’m telling the truth, but I’m lying: essays. Bassey Ikpi. 616.895 IKP
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
Infinite hope: how wrongful conviction, solitary confinement, and 12 years on death row failed to kill my soul. Anthony Graves. 345.025 GRA
Invisible child: poverty, survival, and hope in an American city. Andrea Elliott. 362.7756 ELL
It worked for me: in life and leadership. Colin Powell. B Powell, CD B Powell
Jane Crow: the life of Pauli Murray. Rosalind Rosenberg. B Murray
Joe Louis: hard times man. Randy Roberts. B Louis
Just as I am: a memoir. Cicely Tyson. B Tyson, CD B Tyson
Kansas City lightning: the rise and times of Charlie Parker. Stanley Crouch. B Parker
A knock at midnight: a story of hope, justice, and freedom. Brittany K. Barnett. 340.092 BAR
Ladysitting: my year with Nana at the end of her century. Lorene Cary. 306.8745 CAR
The last black unicorn. Tiffany Haddish. B Haddish
The last hero: a life of Henry Aaron. Howard Bryant. B Aaron
The last holiday: a memoir. Gil Scott-Heron. B Scott-Heron
LeBron, Inc.: the making of a billion-dollar athlete. Brian Windhorst. B James
The legs are the last to go. Diahann Carroll. B Carroll
Let’s play two: the legend of Mr. Cub, the life of Ernie Banks. Ron Rapoport. B Banks
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
The life of Frederick Douglass: a graphic narrative of a slave’s journey from bondage to freedom. David F. Walker. Y 741.5 WAL
Looking for Lorraine: the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry. Imani Perry. B Hansberry
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
The love prison made and unmade: my story. Ebony Roberts. 365.6092 ROB
Madam C.J. Walker: the making of an American icon. Erica L. Ball. B Walker
Major: a black athlete, a white era, and the fight to be the world’s fastest human being. Todd Balf. B Taylor
Malcolm X: a life of reinvention. Manning Marable. B X
Manchild in the promised land. Claude Brown. B Brown, CD B Brown
The marathon don’t stop: the life and times of Nipsey Hussle. Rob Kenner. B Hussle
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
Mom & me & mom. Maya Angelou. B Angelou, Large Type B Angelou, CD B Angelou
More than enough: claiming space for who you are (no matter what they say). Elaine Welteroth. 070.92 WEL
More than pretty: doing the soul work that uncovers your true beauty. Erica Campbell. 248.843 CAM
Motherhood so white: a memoir of race, gender, and parenting in America. Nefertiti Austin. 305.488 AUS
My grandfather’s son. Clarence Thomas. B Thomas
My life, my love, my legacy. Coretta Scott King. B King
My long trip home: a family memoir. Mark Whitaker. B Whitaker
My song: a memoir. Harry Belafonte. B Belafonte
My time will come: a memoir of crime, punishment, hope, and redemption. Ian Manuel. 365.6092 MAN
My vanishing country: a memoir. Bakari Sellers. 328.7309 SEL
The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke. Jeffrey C. Stewart. B Locke
No ashes in the fire: coming of age black & free in America. Darnell L. Moore. B Moore
No higher honor: a memoir of my years in Washington. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
Old in art school: a memoir of starting over. Nell Painter. 700.92 PAI
On our way to beautiful. Yolanda Young. B Young
On the other side of freedom: the case for hope. DeRay Mckesson. 323.092 MACK
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
Ordinary light: a memoir. Tracy K. Smith. B Smith
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
Otis Redding: an unfinished life. Jonathan Gould. 782.4216 GOU
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
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers. 810.8092 POR
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
Punch me up to the gods. Brian Broome. B Broome
The pursuit of happyness. Chris Gardner. B Gardner, CD B Gardner, DVD Drama P
Queen of bebop: the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan. Elaine M. Hayes. 782.4216 HAY
Quiet strength. Tony Dungy. B Dungy, CD B Dungy
Rabbit: the autobiography of Ms. Pat. Patricia Williams. B Williams
Raising fences: a black man’s love story. Michael Datcher. B Datcher
Raw: my journey into the Wu-Tang. Lamont “U-God” Hawkins. B U-God
The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Jeanne Theoharis. B Parks, Large Type B Parks
Reclaiming her time: the power of Maxine Waters. Helena Andrews-Dyer, R. Eric Thomas. B Waters
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a descendant’s search for her family’s lasting legacy. Gayle Jessup White. B White
Redeeming justice: from defendant to defender, my fight for equity on both sides of a broken system. Jarrett Adams. 340.092 ADA
Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s last 31 hours. Joseph Rosenbloom. B King
A redemptive path forward: from incarceration to a life of activism. Antong Lucky. 365.6092 LUC
Respect: the life of Aretha Franklin. David Ritz. B Franklin
Rest in power: the enduring life of Trayvon Martin. Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin. 305.896 FUL, Y 305.896 FUL
Romare Bearden in the homeland of his imagination: an artist’s reckoning with the South. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. 709.2 GIL
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
Seeing Serena. Gerald Marzorati. B Williams, S.
She came to slay: the life and times of Harriet Tubman. Erica Armstrong Dunbar. B Tubman
The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League. Jeff Hobbs. B Peace
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America. Wil Haygood. 347.7326 HAY
Sing for your life: a story of race, music, and family. Daniel Bergner. 782.109 BER
Sister of the solid rock: Edna Mae Barnes Martin and the East Side Christian Center. Wilma Rugh Taylor. Ind. Coll. B Martin
The sixth man: a memoir. Andre Iguodala. B Iguodala
A slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. B Jennings
Smokin’ Joe: the life of Joe Frazier. Mark Kram, Jr. B Frazier
Soldier: the life of Colin Powell. Karen DeYoung. B Powell
A song flung up to heaven. Maya Angelou. B Angelou, CD B Angelou
A song for you: my life with Whitney Houston. Robyn Crawford. 782.4216 CRA
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
Split decision: life stories. Ice-T & Spike. B Ice-T
Stand tall: fighting for my life, inside and outside the ring. Dewey Bozella. 365.6092 BOZ
Stokely: a life. Peniel E. Joseph. B Carmichael
A stone of hope: a memoir. Jim St. Germain. 364.36 SAI
Sure, I’ll be your Black friend: notes from the other side of the fist bump. Ben Philippe. 814.6 PHI
Sweet thunder: the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Wil Haygood. B Robinson
This is just my face: try not to stare. Gabourey Sidibe. B Sidibe
This is what America looks like: my journey from refugee to Congresswoman. Ilhan Omar. 973.933 OMA, Eaudiobook
Through it all: reflections on my life, my family, and my faith. Christine King Farris. B Farris
Tigerbelle: the Wyomia Tyus story. Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis. B Tyus
Till the end. CC Sabathia. B Sabathia
Time is tight: my life, note by note. Booker T. Jones. 782.4216 BOO
T.O. Terrell Owens. B Owens
To walk about in freedom: the long emancipation of Priscilla Joyner. Carole Emberton. 306.362 EMB
Tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for. Susan Rice. B Rice
Tough: my journey to true power. Terry Crews. B Crews, EAudiobook
Trouble maker for justice: the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington. Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegl, Michael G. Long. 323.092 HOU
The truths we hold: an American journey. Kamala Harris. 328.7309 HAR, Large Type 328.7309 HAR, CD 328.7309 HAR
Twelve years a slave. Solomon Northup. B Northup
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
Unprotected: a memoir. Billy Porter. B Porter, B., Ebook
Up from history: the life of Booker T. Washington. Robert J. Norrell. B Washington
Venus and Serena Williams: a biography. Jacqueline Edmondson. B Williams
Vibrate higher: a rap story. Talib Kweli. 782.4216 KWE
Vigilance: the life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad. Andrew K. Diemer. 973.7114 DIE
We’re better than this: my fight for the future of our democracy. Elijah Cummings. 328.73 CUM
We’re going to need more wine: stories that are funny, complicated, and true. Gabrielle Union. B Union, Ebook
What doesn’t kill you makes you blacker: a memoir in essays. Damon Young. 973.0496 YOU
What I know for sure. Tavis Smiley. B Smiley
Where you are is not who you are: a memoir. Ursula M. Burns. 338.7861 BUR
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
The world’s fastest man: the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America’s first Black sports hero. Michael Kranish. 796.62 KRA
Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Valerie Boyd. B Hurston
Writing to save a life: the Louis Till file. John Edgar Wideman. 364.138 WID
Yes, chef: a memoir. Marcus Samuelsson. 641.5092 SAM

POETRY / LITERATURE

1919. Eve L. Ewing. 811.6 EWI
African-American classics. Y 741.5 AFR
African American Poetry: 250 years of struggle & song. 811.008 AFR
Angles of ascent: a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry. 811.008 ANG
The annotated African American folktales. 398.208 ANN
Ardency: a chronicle of the Amistad rebels … Kevin Lowell Young. 811 YOU
Be holding: a poem. Ross Gay. 811.6 GAY
Bestiary: poems. Donika Kelly. 811.6 KEL
Bicycles: love poems. Nikki Giovanni. 811 GIO
Black girl, call home. Jasmine Mans. 811.6 MAN
\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
Build yourself a boat. Camonghne Felix. 811.6 FEL
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
Collected poems. Sonia Sanchez. 811 SAN
The cushion in the road: meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm’s way. Alice Walker. 814 WAL
Don’t call us dead: poems. Danez Smith. 811.6 SMI
Duende: poems, 1966-now. Quincy Troupe. 811.54 TRO
Electric arches. Eve L. Ewing. 811.6 EWI, Ebook
Felon: poems. Reginald Dwayne Betts. 811.6 BET
Finna: poems. Nate Marshall. 811.6 MAR
For the Confederate dead. Kevin Young. 811 YOU
A fortune for your disaster: poems. Hanif Abdurraqib. 811.6 ABD
A good cry: what we learn from tears and laughter. Nikki Giovanni. 811 GIO
Hard times require furious dancing: new poems. Alice Walker. 811 WAL
Homie: poems. Danez Smith. 811.6 SMI
How to carry water: selected poems of Lucille Clifton. 811 CLI
Hum. Jamaal May. 6 MAY
In the language of my captor. Shane McCrae. 811.6 MACC
Incendiary art: poems. Patricia Smith. 811 SMI
Kontemporary Amerikan poetry: poems. John Murillo. 811.6 MUR
Library of small catastrophes. Alison C. Rollins. 811.6 ROL
Ma Rainey’s black bottom: a play in two acts. August Wilson. 812 WIL
Magical negro: poems. Morgan Parker. 811.6 PAR
Make me rain: poems & prose. Nikki Giovanni. 811 GIO
Monument: poems: new and selected. Natasha Trethewey. 811 TRE
Morning haiku. Sonia Sanchez. 811 SAN
My people. Langston Hughes. Y 811 HUG
Native guard. Natasha Trethewey. 811 TRE
The new testament. Jericho Brown. 811.6 BRO
The 100 best African American poems. 811.008 ONE
One with others: a little book of her days. C.D. Wright. 811 WRI
Owed. Joshua Bennett. 811.6 BEN
The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. 811.008 OXF
Playlist for the Apocalypse: poems. Rita Dove. 811 DOV
The renunciations: poems. Donika Kelly. 811.6 KEL
S O S: poems 1961-2013. Amiri Baraka. 811.54 BAR
Say her name. Zetta Elliott. Y 811 ELL
The selected works of Audre Lorde. 814.54 LOR
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
Stones: poems. Kevin Young. 811 YOU
Such color: new and selected poems. Tracy K. Smith. 811 SMI
Taking the arrow out of the heart: poems. Alice Walker. 811 WAL, CD 811 WAL
Teahouse of the almighty. Patricia Smith. 811 SMI
There are more beautiful things than Beyonce. Morgan Parker. 811.6 PAR
To float in the space between: a life and work in conversation with the life and work of Etheridge Knight. Terrance Hayes. 811.54 KNI
Un-American. Hafizah Geter. 811.6 GET
Vintage Hughes. Langston Hughes. 811 HUG
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and other poems. Robin Coste Lewis. 811.6 LEW
Wade in the water: poems. Tracy K. Smith. 811 SMI
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
Well-read black girl: finding our stories, discovering ourselves: an anthology. 810.8089 WEL
We’re on: a June Jordan reader. 818.54 JOR
What noise against the cane. Desiree C. Bailey. 811.6 BAI
White girls. Hilton Als. 814 ALS
Wild hundreds. Nate Marshall. 811.6 MAR
Writings. James Weldon Johnson. 818 JOH

FICTION

Absalom’s daughters. Suzanne Feldman. Fic FEL
The African American West: a century of short stories. 808.83 AFR
Africaville. Jeffrey Colvin. Fic COL
The after party. A.C. Arthur. Fic ART
Always true to you in my fashion. Valerie Wilson Wesley. Fic WES
Another Brooklyn. Jacqueline Woodson. Fic WOO
Aphrodite and the duke. J.J. McAvoy. Romance McAvoy
As lie is to grin. Simeon Marsalis. Fic MAR
Back channel. Stephen L. Carter. Fic CAR
Bad men and wicked women. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
The ballad of Black Tom. Victor LaValle. Sci. Fic LAV
The Banks sisters. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
The best of everything. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
Better late than never. Kimberla Lawson Roby. FicROB
Big girls do cry. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
The black market. Kiki Swinson. Fic SWI
The blackbirds. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
Bloodroot. Aaron Roy Even. Fic EVE
Boy, snow, bird. Helen Oyeyemi. Fic OYE
The boyfriend project. Farrah Rochon. Romance Rochon
A brief history of seven killings. Marlon James. Fic JAM, EAudiobook
Bring on the blessings. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
The buffalo soldier. Chris Bohjalian. Fic BOH
By the light of my father’s smile. Alice Walker. Fic WAL
Call your daughter home. Deb Spera. Fic SPE, Large Type Fic SPE
Can’t stand the heat. Shelly Ellis. Fic ELL
The cheating curve. Paula T. Renfroe. Fic REN
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
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
Daughter of a daughter of a queen. Sarah Bird. Fic BIR, Large Type Fic BIR
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
Difficult women. Roxane Gay. Fic GAY
Don’t cry for me. Daniel Black. Fic BLA, Ebook, EAudiobook
The dry grass of August. Anna Jean Mayhew. Fic MAY
A duke by default. Alyssa Cole. Romance Cole
Everybody’s son. Thrity Umrigar. Fic UMR
Everywhere you don’t belong. Gabriel Bump. Fic BUM
Extraordinary union. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
The family business. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
Filthy animals. Brandon Taylor. Fic TAY
The final revival of Opal & Nev. Dawnie Walton. Fic WAL, Ebook
Finding Gideon. Eric Jerome Dickey. Fic DIC
Foolish hearts. Synithia Williams. Romance Williams, EAudiobook
For your love. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
Forever a hustler’s wife. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
Friday black. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Fic ADJ, Ebook
A gangster and a gentleman. Kiki Swinson, De’nesha Diamond. Fic SWI
The general’s cook. Ramin Ganeshram. Fic GAN
Get it girls: a Harlem girl lost novel. Treasure Blue. Fic BLU
Getting to happy. Terry McMillan. Fic MACM, CD Fic MACM
The gilded years. Karin Tanabe. Fic TAN
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
The good lord bird. James McBride. Fic MACB, CD Fic MACB
Grace. Natashia Deón. Fic DEO
He had it coming. Camika Spencer. Fic SPE
Heads of the colored people: stories. Nafissa Thompson-Spires. Fic THO
Heart of gold. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
The help. Kathryn Stockett. Fic STO
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston. Fic HUR, Ebook, EAudiobook
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 hope divided. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
A house divided. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
The house girl. Tara Conklin. Fic CON
House of light. Joyce Carol Thomas. Fic THO
How are you going to save yourself. JM Holmes. Fic HOL
How the one-armed sister sweeps her house. Cherie Jones. Fic JON, Ebook
How to catch a queen. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
Hue and cry: stories. James Alan McPherson. Fic MACP
A hustler’s wife. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
I, Alex Cross. James Patterson. Fic PAT
I almost forgot about you. Terry McMillan. Fic MACM
If I can’t have you. Mary B. Morrison. Fic MOR
In West Mills. De’Shawn Charles Winslow. Fic WIN
Influence. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
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 not all downhill from here. Terry McMillan. Fiction McMillan
Jam on the vine. LaSonda Katrice Barnett. Fic BAR
John Henry Days. Colson Whitehead. Fic WHI
John Woman. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS, EAudiobook
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 last days of Ptolemy Grey. Walter Mosley. Fic MOS, CD Fic MOS
The last thing you surrender. Leonard Pitts, Jr.. Fic PIT
Lavina. Mary Marcus. Fic MAR
Lazaretto. Diane McKinney-Whetstone. Fic MACK
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
A little bit of karma. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Fic BIL
Look for me and I’ll be gone: stories. John Edgar Wideman. Fic WID
Love and lotus blossoms. Anne Shade. Romance Shade
The love con. Seressia Glass. Romance Glass
A lowcountry bride. Preslaysa Williams. Romance Williams
Luster. Raven Leilani. Fic LEI, Ebook, EAudiobook
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 men of Brewster Place. Gloria Naylor. Fic NAY
A mercy. Toni Morrison. Fic MOR, CD Fic MOR
The minister primarily. John Oliver Killens. Fic KIL
Monster in the middle. Tiphanie Yanique. Fic YAN
More to life. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Fic BIL
Most wanted. Kiki Swinson, Nikki Turner. Fic SWI
Mother of pearl. Melinda Haynes. Fic HAY
Mudbound. Hillary Jordan. Fic JOR
Native son. Richard Wright. Fic WRI
Natural born hustler. Nikki Turner. Fic TUR
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
Paradise sky. Joe R. Lansdale. Western LAN
The perishing. Natashia Deón. Fiction DEÓ
The personal history of Rachel Dupree. Ann Weisgarber. Fic WEI
A prince on paper. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
A princess in theory. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
The professor’s daughter. Emily Raboteau. Fic RAB
Promise broken. K’wan. Fic KWA
Property of the state. Kiki Swinson. Fic SWI
The prophets. Robert Jones, Jr. Fic JON
Pym. Mat Johnson. Fic JOH
Queen of the conquered. Kacen Callender. Sci. Fic CAL
Queen sugar. Natalie Baszile. Fic BAS
Real men knit. Kwana Jackson. Romance JAC
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
The revisioners. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Fic SEX, CD Fic SEX
Revival season. Monica West. Fic WES
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
Saving Ruby King. Catherine Adel West. Fic WES, Eaudiobook
A second helping. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
See now then. Jamaica Kincaid. Fic KIN
Silver sparrow. Tayari Jones. Fic JON
Sin of a woman. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
A sinful calling. Kimberla Lawson Roby. Fic ROB
Single Black female. Tracy Brown. Fic BRO
Some sing, some cry. Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza. Fic SHA
Someone knows my name. Lawrence Hill. Fic HIL
Something old, something new. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
Song yet sung. James McBride. Fic MACB, CD Fic MACB
Stepping to a new day. Beverly Jenkins. Fic JEN
Street love: a Triple Crown anthology. Fic STR
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
The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues. Edward Kelsey Moore. Fic MOO, Large Type Fic MOO
The taste of salt. Martha Southgate. Fic SOU
A thorn in the saddle. Rebekah Weatherspoon. Romance Weatherspoon
The tragedy of Brady Sims. Ernest J. Gaines. Fic GAI
Trouble in Rio. Carl Weber. Fic WEB
True to the game II. Teri Woods. Fic WOO
True to the game III. Teri Woods. Fic WOO
The Tubman command. Elizabeth Cobbs. Fic COB
The Turner house. Angela Flournoy. Fic FLO
The twelve tribes of Hattie. Ayana Mathis. Fic MAT, CD Fic MAT
An unconditional freedom. Alyssa Cole. Romance COL
Up from freedom. Wayne Grady. Fic GRA
The warmest December. Bernice L. McFadden. Fic MACF
We are all welcome here. Elizabeth Berg. Fic BER
We cast a shadow. Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Fic RUF
Wench. Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Fic PER, Large Type Fic PER
What we lose. Zinzi Clemmons. Fic CLE, Large Type Fic CLE
Who asked you? Terry McMillan. Large Type Fic MACM
Wild rain. Beverly Jenkins. Romance Jenkins

MYSTERY

And sometimes I wonder about you. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
Black water rising. Attica Locke. Mystery LOC
The blackbird papers. Ian Smith. Mystery SMI
Blonde faith. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
The blood red Indian Summer. David Handler. Mystery HAN
Charcoal Joe. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
Cold bayou. Barbara Hambly. Mystery HAM
The cutting season. Attica Locke. Mystery LOC
Dead dead girls. Nekesa Afia. Mystery Afia
Drinking gourd. Barbara Hambly. Mystery HAM
Heaven, my home. Attica Locke. Mystery LOC, CD Fic LOC
Little green: an Easy Rawlins mystery. Walter Mosley. Mystery MOS
Murder in July. Barbara Hambly. Mystery HAM
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
Trail of echoes. Rachel Howzell Hall. Mystery HAL
The unquiet grave. Sharyn McCrumb. Mystery MACC

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Abbott. Saladin Ahmed. Graphic Fic AHM
As the crow flies. Melanie Gillman. Y 741.5 GIL
Bingo love. Tee Franklin. Graphic Fic FRA, Ebook
Bitter root. Volume one, Family business. David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene. Graphic Fic WAL
Black AF: America’s sweetheart. Kwanza Osajyefo. Graphic Fic OSA
(H)afrocentric. Juliana “Jewels” Smith. Graphic Fic SMI
Monster: a graphic novel. Walter Dean Myers, Guy A. Sims. Y 741.5 SIM
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. BFF, 1. Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder. Y 741.5 MON
Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. Damian Duffy, John Jennings. Graphic Fic DUF
The silence of our friends. Mark Long, Jim Demonakos. Graphic Fic LON
Your black friend and other strangers. Ben Passmore. Graphic Fic PAS

RELIGIOUS FICTION

The book in room 316. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Church folk. Michele Andrea Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
Cover girls. T.D. Jakes. Rel. Fic JAK
Fifteen years. Kendra Norman-Bellamy. Rel. Fic NOR
Forever an ex. Victoria Christopher Murray. Rel. Fic MUR
Holy rollers. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Humbled. Patricia Haley. Rel. Fic HAL
Mama’s boy. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
More church folk. Michele Andrea Bowen. Rel. Fic BOW
My soul cries out. Sherri L. Lewis. Rel. Fic LEW
The perfect mistress. ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Rel. Fic BIL
Sister Betty! God’s calling you, again. Pat G’Orge-Walker. Large Type Fic GOR
The solace of water. Elizabeth Byler Younts. Fic YOU, CD Fic YOU
To Rome with love. Debra White Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
Yesterday’s promise. Vanessa Miller. Rel. Fic MIL

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. M. T. Anderson. Y Fic AND
The awakening of Malcolm X. Ilyasah Shabazz. Y Fic SHA
Black enough: stories of being young & black in America. Y Fic BLA
The black kids. Christina Hammonds Reed. Y Fic HAM
The boy in the black suit. Jason Reynolds. Y Fic REY
Boy21. Matthew Quick. Y Fic QUI
Brothers in arms (Bluford High). Paul Langan, Ben Alirez. Y Fic LAN
Calico Girl. Jerdine Nolen. Y Fic NOL
Chains. Laurie Halse Anderson. Y Fic AND, Y AUDIO CD AND
Crossing Ebenezer Creek. Tonya Bolden. Y Fic BOL
The crossover. Kwame Alexander. Y Fic ALE
Dream country. Shannon Gibney. Y Fic GIB
Dreamland burning. Jennifer Latham. Y Fic LAT
Fake ID. L.R. Giles. Y Fic GIL
Flygirl. Sherri L. Smith. Y Fic SMI
Forge. Laurie Halse Anderson. Y Fic AND
Foul trouble. John Feinstein. Y Fic FEI
George Washington Carver: inventor and naturalist. Sam Wellman. Large Type Fic WEL
Good fortune. Noni Carter. Y Fic CAR
The Good Luck Girls. Charlotte Nicole Davis. Y Fic DAV
He said, she said. Kwame Alexander. Y Fic ALE
How it went down. Kekla Magoon. Y Fic MAG
Invasion. Walter Dean Myers. Y Fic MYE
Jump into the sky. Shelley Pearsall. Y Fic PEA, J PEA
Let’s talk about love. Claire Kann. Y Fic KAN
Light it up. Kekla Magoon. Y Fic MAG
A matter of souls. Denise Lewis Patrick. Y Fic PAT
My name is not Friday. Jon Walter. Y Fic WAL
November blues. Sharon M. Draper. Large Type Fic DRA
Okoye to the people. Ibi Zoboi. Y Fic ZOB
One of the good ones. Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite. Y Fic MOU, Ebook, EAudiobook
Piecing me together. Renée Watson. Y Fic WAT
Pointe. Brandy Colbert. Y Fic COL
Punching the air. Ibi Zoboi. Y Fic ZOB, Ebook, Eaudiobook
Rise to the sun. Leah Johnson. Y Fic JOH, Ebook, EAudiobook
See no color. Shannon Gibney. Y Fic GIB
The sisters of reckoning. Charlotte Nicole Davis. Y Fic DAV
A sitting in St. James. Rita Williams-Garcia. Y Fic WIL
Smash it! Francina Simone. Y Fic SIM
Small steps. Louis Sachar. Large Type Fic SAC
A song below water. Bethany C. Morrow. Y Fic MOR, EAudiobook
Swing. Kwame Alexander. Y Fic ALE
Tyler Johnson was here. Jay Coles. Y Fic COL
The voting booth. Brandy Colbert. Y Fic COL, Ebook, EAudiobook
When I was the greatest. Jason Reynolds. Y Fic REY
Wings of ebony. J. Elle. Y Fic ELL
X. Ilyasah Shabazz. Y Fic SHA

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

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. 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
The Dred Scott decision. Brendan January. J 342.73 JAN
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
Hard labor: the first African Americans, 1619. Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack. J 973.2 MACK
Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad. Michael Martin. J 973.71 MAR
Hell Fighters: African American soldiers in World War I. Michael L. Cooper. J 940.3 COO
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

CHILDREN’S BIOGRAPHIES

Aunt Clara Brown: official pioneer. Linda Lowery. EB Brown
Benjamin Banneker. Melissa Maupin. JB Banneker
Beyonce. Kathleen Tracy. JB Knowles
Blind Boone: piano prodigy. Madge Harrah. JB Boone
Can you imagine? Patricia McKissack. JB McKissack
Catching the fire: Philip Simmons, blacksmith. Mary E. Lyons. JB Simmons
Charlie Sifford. Grant Britt. JB Sifford
Civil rights pioneer: a story about Mary Church Terrell. Gwenyth Swain. JB Terrell
Colin Powell. John Passaro. JB Powell
Condoleezza Rice: being the best. Mary Dodson Wade. JB Rice
Dave the potter: artist, poet, slave. Laban Carrick Hill. J 666.3 HIL
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
Five famous writers. Lynda Jones. E 810.9 JON
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
Kobe Bryant. Michael Bradley. JB Bryant
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
When Marian sang: the true recital of Marian Anderson: the voice of a century. Pam Muñoz Ryan. EB Anderson
With open hands: a story about Biddy Mason. Jeri Chase Ferris. JB Mason

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