Virtual Book Display: Black History Month Display

• Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman; Vincent Harding (Foreword by)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY MAIN COLLECTION 261.8 T539 1996

  ISBN: 9780807010297

  Publication Date: 1996-11-30

  Famously known as the text that Martin Luther King Jr. sought inspiration from in the days leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott, Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited helped shape the civil rights movement and changed our nation's history forever. In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower--it decays. Only through self-love and love of one another can God's justice prevail.
• The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Nellie Y. McKay (Editor)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 810.8 N882

  ISBN: 9780393040012

  Publication Date: 1996-11-01

  Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.
• African Americans in Michigan by Lewis Walker; Benjamin C. Wilson; Linwood H. Cousins

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 977.4 W181

  ISBN: 9780870135835

  Publication Date: 2001-03-31

  African Americans, as free laborers and as slaves, were among the earliest permanent residents of Michigan, settling among the French, British, and Native people with whom they worked and farmed. Lewis Walker and Benjamin Wilson recount the long history of African American communities in Michigan, delineating their change over time, as migrants from the South, East, and overseas made their homes in the state. Moreover, the authors show how Michigan's development is inextricably joined with the vitality and strength of its African American residents. In a related chapter, Linwood Cousins examines youth culture and identity in African American schools, linking education with historical and contemporary issues of economics, racism, and power.
• Black Leadership by Manning Marable

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 323.1196 M298

  ISBN: 9780231107464

  Publication Date: 1998-03-24

  The history of the black struggle for civil rights and political and economic equality in America is tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. Marable examines different models of black leadership and the figures who embody them: integration (Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington), nationalist separatism (Louis Farrakhan), and democratic transformation (W.E.B. Du Bois).
• The Black Experience in America by James C. Curtis (Editor); Lewis L. Gould (Editor)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 309.173 C979

  ISBN: 9780292700406

  Publication Date: 1970-01-01
• Black Firsts by Jessie Carney Smith (Editor); Johnnetta B. Cole (Preface by)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 909.0496 B627

  ISBN: 9780810394902

  Publication Date: 1994-01-01

  Significant accomplishments involving people, places and events in black history are chronicled in this study. It lists more than 3000 firsts spanning over 20 centuries, in every area of human endeavour. An eight-page, fold-out, removable timeline is included with the book.
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin; Studs Terkel; Robert Bonazzi

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 305.8036 G851

  ISBN: 9780916727680

  Publication Date: 2011-09-30

  On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own-he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written.
• Harriet Tubman: a Life in American History by Kerry Walters

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 973.7115 T885y

  ISBN: 9781440855696

  Publication Date: 2019-11-22

  Harriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad, work as a military scout during the Civil War, and postwar activism for blacks and women.
• Notable Black American Women by Jessie Carney Smith, Shirelle Phelps

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY REFERENCE STORAGE R 920.72 N899

  ISBN: 9780810347496

  Publication Date: 1991-12-20

  A biographical narrative on 500 notable black American women, this book offers information on their various fields of activity and includes statements from the subjects themselves. Figures included in the book are Althea Gibson, Vivian Malone, and Eartha Kitt.
• Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL BIOGRAPHY B K53

  ISBN: 9780786807147

  Publication Date: 2001-10-01

  ThisCaldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor, and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brings his life and the profound nature of his message to young children through his own words. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the most influential and gifted speakers of all time. Doreen Rappaport uses quotes from some of his most beloved speeches to tell the story of his life and his work in a simple, direct way. Bryan Collier's stunning collage art combines remarkable watercolor paintings with vibrant patterns and textures. A timeline and a list of additional books and web sites help make this a standout biography of Dr. King.
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL NON-FICTION 305.8 R463

  ISBN: 9780316453691

  Publication Date: 2020-03-10

  Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future.
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 813.54 B986

  ISBN: 9780807083697

  Publication Date: 2004-02-01

  The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
• King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) by Kacen Callender

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL FICTION CL F C157

  ISBN: 9781338129335

  Publication Date: 2020-02-04

  A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book! Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL BIOGRAPHY B W898

  ISBN: 9780399252518

  Publication Date: 2014-08-28

  A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.
• Black Power by Charles V. Hamilton; Kwame Ture

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 323.1196 C287 1992

  ISBN: 9780679743132

  Publication Date: 1992-11-10

  An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order.
• Seeing into Tomorrow by Richard Wright; Nina Crews (Illustrator)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL NON-FICTION 811.52 W952

  ISBN: 9781512418651

  Publication Date: 2018-02-01

  A remarkable celebration of Richard Wright, poetry, and contemporary black boys at play. From walking a dog to watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Now, more than fifty years after they were written, these poems continue to reflect our everyday experiences. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys and offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century.
• Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL FICTION CL F W898

  ISBN: 9780399545436

  Publication Date: 2020-09-01

  WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. Cover may vary. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
• Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY CL PICTURE BOOKS P L665

  ISBN: 9780439777339

  Publication Date: 2007-01-01

  A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 297.87 X1

  ISBN: 9780345379757

  Publication Date: 1992-09-29

  ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America. Praise for The Autobiography of Malcolm X "Extraordinary . . . a brilliant, painful, important book."--The New York Times "This book will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle."--I. F. Stone
• Jazz by Toni Morrison

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 813.54 M882

  ISBN: 9781400076215

  Publication Date: 2004-06-08

  From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." --Glamour In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" (People). "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women." --The New York Times Book Review
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 973 W681

  ISBN: 9780679444329

  Publication Date: 2010-09-07

  NATIONAL BEST SELLER In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  Call Number: WHITE LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION 616 L141y

  ISBN: 9781400052172

  Publication Date: 2010-02-02

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly
• The Color of Water by James McBride

  Call Number: 974.71 M119 2006

  ISBN: 9781594481925

  The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain
• His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham; John Lewis (Afterword by)

  Call Number: 328.73 L674y

  ISBN: 9781984855022

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America.
• Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Call Number: 323.1196 K53 2000

  ISBN: 9780613226325

  Written more than 30 years ago, an impassioned work by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shares a heartfelt argument for equality and an end to racial discrimination that explains why the civil rights' struggle is vital to the United States