Black History Month

Black History Month

Library Resources to Celebrate Black History Month

A Promised Land book cover
ISBN: 9781524763183
Title: A Promised Land
Author: Obama, Barack
The Color Purple book cover
ISBN: 0780663284
Title: The color purple
Author: Walker, Alice
The New Jim Crow book cover
ISBN: 9781620971949
Title: The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
Author: Alexander, Michelle
Long Way Down book cover
ISBN: 9781481438278
Title: Long way down / Jason Reynolds.
Author: Reynolds, Jason
All American Boys book cover
ISBN: 9781481463355
Title: All American boys
Author: Reynolds, Jason
Sweet Taste of Liberty book cover
ISBN: 9780190847005
Title: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Author: McDaniel, W. Caleb
A Black Women's History of the United States book cover
ISBN: 9780807033555
Title: A Black Women's History of the United States
Author: Berry, Daina Ramey. Gross, Kali Nicole.
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman book cover
Title: Fannie Lou Hamer: America's freedom fighting woman
Author: Brooks, Maegan Parker
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
ISBN: 9780593230251
Title: Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.
Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
Light for the World to See book cover
ISBN: 9780358566199
Title: Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope)
Author: Alexander, Kwame
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ISBN: 9781612198736
Title: Toni Morrison: The Last Interview : And Other Conversations

Black History Month Research Starter

Black History Month Research Starter

Black History Month JSTOR Roundup

BLM Films

The National Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience.

The text "The Library of Congress Celebrates Black History Month" is above a photo of Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy in 1945.
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Gale In Context, featured content on Black History Month
Gale In Context offers interdisciplinary content on Black History Month, with current and authoritative information that is easy to navigate. Explore academic journals, primary sources, biographies, news and much more.

Black History Month Podcasts

Noire Histoir Podcast
Noire Histoir is hosted by Natasha McEachron and celebrates Black History 366 days of the year.
Code Switch Podcast

What's Code Switch? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for.

Historically Black Podcast Image

The Historically Black podcast brings historical objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music.

Collected podcast link

Collected is a project of the African American History Curatorial Collective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.