African American History and Culture: Suggested Titles
Search in the library catalog under the following headings to locate books. Please contact a reference librarian for more headings. You can also search by specific authors and titles.
- African Americans
- African American Art
- African American Culture
- African American History
- African American Literature
- African American Music
- Black Art
- Black History
- Black Music
The following is a partial list of books of interest:
April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America by Call Number: E185.97.K5 D96 2008ISBN: 9780465002122Publication Date: 2008
Condi : the Condoleezza Rice story by Call Number: E840.8.R48 F45 2010ISBN: 1439196788Publication Date: 2010
Condoleezza Rice : a memoir of my extraordinary, ordinary family and me / Condoleezza Rice. by Call Number: E840.8.R48 A3 2010ISBN: 9780385738798Publication Date: 2010
Douglass and Lincoln : how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union by Call Number: E449.D75 K46 2007ISBN: 9780802715234Publication Date: 2007
Freedom Summer : The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Call Number: E185.93.M6 W285 2010ISBN: 0670021709Publication Date: 2010
From Du Bois to Obama : African American Intellectuals in the Public Forum by Call Number: E185.89.I56 B36 2010ISBN: 0809329794Publication Date: 2010
Hammer and the anvil : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America by Call Number: E449.D75 Z56 2012ISBN: 9780809053582Publication Date: 2012
Harriet Tubman : imagining a life by Call Number: E 444 .T82 L68 2007ISBN: 9780385721776Publication Date: 2007
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Call Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2011ISBN: 1400052181Publication Date: 2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57636 2011ISBN: 0670022209Publication Date: 2011
People of the Underground Railroad : A Biographical Dictionary by Call Number: Ref. E450 .C38 2008ISBN: 0313339244Publication Date: 2008
Quilting the black-eyed pea: poems and not quite poems by Call Number: PS 3557 .I55 Q46 2002ISBN: 0060099534Publication Date: 2011
Reason to Believe : Lessons From an Improbable Life by Call Number: F71.22.P37 A3 2011ISBN: 0767931122Publication Date: 2011
The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010ISBN: 0679444327Publication Date: 2010
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