Forest Lodge Education Centre, Charnor Road, Leicester LE3 6LH
Claire Plumb – Development Worker - lmlg@leicestermasayalink.org.uk
Clare Carr – Library Assistant – global.learninglibrary@leicester.gov.uk

Resources Relating to Black History Season
Managed by the Leicester Masaya Link Group and based at Forest Lodge Education Centre
Background Information
Black History Season in Leicester
Posters
Artefact Boxes
Story Sacks
Books, CDs, DVDs, teaching packs
Biography (BIO)
History (HIS)
Food (FOO)
Art (ART)
Entertainment (ENT)
Education (EDU)
Black and Mixed Heritage 370.19342
Minority Ethnic Achievement 370.19
Diversity and Equality 370.117
Society (SOC)
Racism 301.451
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Migration 304.8
Festivals (Carnival) 394.2
Religion (REL) – Rastafarianism 299.676
Countries (COU) – West Indies 917.29
Language (LAN) – Afro-Caribbean 42.7
Primary Fiction
Secondary Fiction
Picture Books
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Traditional Stories/Myths and Legends
Poetry
Traditional Songs and Rhymes
Big Books
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Full listings of books, CDs, DVDs and teaching resources are given for Biography, History,
Food, Art and Entertainment. For other sections, a partial listing is given showing a selection of the resources available.
Global Learning Library
Forest Lodge Education Centre, Charnor Road, Leicester LE3 6LH
Telephone – 0116 223 2272
Claire Plumb – Development Worker - lmlg@leicestermasayalink.org.uk
Clare Carr – Library Assistant – global.learninglibrary@leicester.gov.uk
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Background information
Black History Month (BHM) Afrikan History Month (AHM) is held every October in Britain and
February in USA and Canada.
The aims are to:
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Promote knowledge of the Black History , Culture and Heritage
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Disseminate information on positive Black contributions to British Society
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Heighten the confidence and awareness of Black people to their cultural heritage.
The origins of BHM go back to 1926 when Carter G Woodson, editor for thirty years of the
Journal of Negro History, established African Caribbean celebrations in America. It is still celebrated there in February each year.
Source - http://www.black-historymonth.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223&Itemid=57
For a longer article on the origins of Black History Month see: “Putting the Black into History”
- http://www.black-historymonth.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215:putting-the-black-intohistory&catid=76:our-story&Itemid=131
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Black History Season in Leicester
The Leicester Black History Consortium is chaired by Brian Simmonds (telephone 0116 216
6320, text 0782 731 7952, e-mail – leicesterbhconsortium@hotmail.com
). The consortium organised a very successful conference for schools on 10 October 2014.
Black History Season in Leicester is co-ordinated by: Serendipity, Workspace 12, Phoenix
Square, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE11 1TG
For further information regarding the festival, email info@serendipity-uk.com
, telephone
0116 242 2945 or check the website: www.serendipity-uk.com
Also see the Leicester City Council website for details of events in Leicester http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/events/major-events/black-history-month/
Useful links
Grass roots website for BHM http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/
Information and listings for BHM throughout the
UK
Website for the Black Cultural Archives based in
Brixton, London
Black History Studies material
Black History for Schools
International Slavery Museum, National Museums
Liverpool
Talking History No. 5 October 2002
Newsletter of the East Midlands Oral History
Archive – Celebrating our Caribbean Heritage
Report of research carried out in 2001 by the
Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and
Rutland for Caribbean Studies and the History of
Black and Asian People in the UK (CASBAH) http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/ http://www.bcaheritage.org.uk/ http://www.blackhistorystudies.com/ http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/ http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/is m/slavery/africa/ http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/news/pdf/iss ue5.pdf
http://www.casbah.ac.uk/surveys/archive reportLEICS.stm
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Posters
Black History
1.
A salute to historic black women
2.
Malcolm X, Civil Rights Campaigner
3.
Olaudah Equiano (1 poster, 1 postcard)
4.
Black Trumpeter 1511 (Roots of the Future)
5.
Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist
6.
Mary Seacole, Nurse
7.
Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Campaigner
8.
Martin Luther King (3 different general posters, 1 “I have a dream” speech poster)
9.
Nelson Madela (2 different posters)
10.
Forgotten Faces article (Observer 20.10.2005) – Manchester exhibition of Black
Victorians
Black Achievement
1.
Pack – Eight African American Painters
2.
Sembene Ousame, Writer
3.
Cyprian Ekwensi, Writer
4.
Buchi Emecheta, Writer
5.
Beverley Naidoo, Writer
6.
Trevor Nelson, DJ
7.
Oswald Boateng, Fashion Designer
8.
Baronss Amos, Politician
9.
Sol Campbell, Footballer
10.
Rageh Omaah, Journalist
11.
Portraits of Black Achievement: Composing Successful Careers (2 different posters)
12.
Respect Campaign (African Caribbean Network for Science and Technology, Office for
Science and Technology) (2 different posters)
13.
Series of 10 posters “Be Inspired by Community Achievers” created by Shanti Chauhan and Sharon Mitchell-Halliday for the Leicester City Minority Ethnic Language and
Achievement Service ( MELAS): [ask Sharon about accompanying materials]
Connie Smith, Restaurateur, Karl Brown, Basketball Coach, Dr Desaline Simon,
Paediatrician, Max Williams, Chief Inspector, Cameron Hallam, Hairdresser, Lorna
Hamilton-Brown MBE, Arts and Multimedia Lecturer, Michael Lewis, Library Manager
Dr Linda Brown, GP, James Nibett, Barrister, Antonio Belgrave, Global Project Manager
14.
Aim High – Identity and achievement, Sara McLaughlin, Islington Ethnic Minority
Achievement Service (posters, photos and job title cards)
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Artefact boxes
1.
Caribbean Artefacts Box
Story sacks
1.
Caribbean Curiosity Kit
Books, CDs, DVDs, teaching packs
Biography Collections (BIO)
Title
Makers of the Caribbean
Ten Amazing People: and how they changed the world (incl. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King,
Desmond Tutu)
Remember Me: Achievements of Mixed Race
People Past and Present
Black Makers of History – Not Just Singin’ and
Dancin’ (adult literacy resource)
Black Makers of History – The Real McCoy (adult literacy resource) 5 copies
Black Makers of History – Four Women (adult literacy series) 3 copies
Stop, Look, Listen – Famous People (video includes 15 min programme on Mary Seacole)
Through My Eyes (story of Ruby Bridges born in
1954 in Mississippi)
Six Important Figures in Caribbean History
Author(s)
James Ferguson
Maura D Shaw
Asher and Martin Hoyles
Frank Forde, Lesnah Hall,
Virginia McClean
Frank Forde, Lesnah Hall,
Virginia McClean, Ray Ut
Ruby Bridges
Starlight – Black History Resource: a celebration of black men and women and their contribution to
British Society
Book of Black Heroes from A to Z
Leicester City Multicultural
Education Service
Their Contribution Ignored (2 copies)
Famous Victorians DVD (includes Mary Seacole)
Talking Head CD: Great Speeches from the First
Century of Recorded Sound (incl. Martin Luther
King, Malcolm X
Did You Know?
Wade Hudson, Valerie
Wilson Wesley
Shazia Azhar, Pete Tidy and
Maurice Mechan (Ill)
Published
2005
2002
1999
1989
1988
1999
1992
2007
1988
1988
2006.
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Biographies (BIO) Scientists and Inventors
Title
Black Scientists and Inventors Pack 1 – laminated
A4 posters with photos and text for 11 scientists + listings of more black inventors and black women inventors
Black Scientists and Inventors Pack 2 – laminated
A4 posters with photos and text for 13 scientists
Black Scientists and Inventors Book 1 – Madam C J
Walker, Ron Headley, Benjamin Banneker,
Granville T Woods, Dr Mae C Jemison, Elijah
McCoy, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Dr Ernest Everett
Just, Garrett A Morgan
Black Scientists andInventors Book 2 – Lewis
Latimer, Jack Bubeula, Imhotep, Cuthbert Dutiro,
Philip Emeagwali, Abraham Hannibal, Dale
Emeagwali, George Washington Carver, Pauline
Straker-Rodgers, Jerry Yamoa
Black Inventors of America
Black Scientists and Inventors
Author(s)
Ava Henry and Michael
Williams
Ava Henry and Michael
Williams
Ava Henry and Michael
Williams
Ava Henry and Michael
Williams
Burt McKinley, Jr
Sarah Brookes, Hampshire
Ethnic Minority
Achievement Service
Biographies (BIO) Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gather Together in my Name
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like
Christmas
The Heart of a Woman
All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes
Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Biographies (BIO) of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Julia Holt
“I have a Dream” The Story of Martin Luther King Neil Tonge and Alison Astill
(Ill)
Martin Luther King Jr: a photographic story of a life
Amy Pastan
Famous People, Famous Lives: Martin Luther King Verna Williams
Martin Luther King
Young Martin Luther King, Jr ‘I have a Dream’
Rob Lloyd Jones
Joanne Mattern
Published
1999
1999
1999
2003
1969
2004
1969
1974
1976
1981
1986
1993
1996
2000
2005
1998
2006
1992
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Days that shook the world: The Dream of Martin
Luther King 28 th
August 1963
Martin Luther King assembly pack (acetates and commentary) 3 copies, 2 with illustrations and 1 with photos
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr Martin Luther
King, Jr [fantastic picture book]
I have a Dream Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
Forward by Coretta Scott King (wife) and illustrated with painting by 15 Coretta Scott King
Award and Honour Book artists
Judge for Yourself – Martin Luther King
Great Lives: Martin Luther King
Author(s)
Liz Gogerly
The Minority Group Support
Service, Coventry LEA
Doreen Rappaport and
Bryan Collier (Ill)
Martin Luther King
DVD Martin Luther King: I have a Dream.
Highlights of major speeches
Video Historical Biographies (History for 14 to 19 year olds) Martin Luther King: The Legacy (80 mins)
Graphic Biographies- Martin Luther King Jr: The
Life of a Civil Rights Leader
Biographies (BIO) of Nelson Mandela
Graphic Biographies – Nelson Mandela: The Life of an African Statesman
Nelson Mandela
The Story of Nelson Mandela
Christine Hall
Nigel Hunter and Richard
Hook (Ill)
Channel 4 Schools
Gary Jeffrey and Chris
Forsey (Ill)
Rob Shore and Neil Reed
(Ill)
Mary Benson and Karen
Heywood (Ill)
James Riordan and Neil
Reed (Ill)
Ann Kramer Nelson Mandela: from Political Prisoner to
President
Nelson Mandela [KS2] 2copies
Dates with History – The Release of Nelson
Mandela: 11 February 1990
Nelson Mandela: Freedom for South Africa
Life and Times - Nelson Mandela
Famous Lives – Nelson Mandela: Father of
Freedom
Nelson Mandela Born 1918
Jayne Woodhouse
John Mallam
Pamela Dell
Jayne Woodhouse
Hakim Adi
Richard Tames
Published
2003
2001
2002
1985
2004
2007
2007
1986
2001
2003
1998
2008
1994
2001
2000
1991
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Biographies (BIO) of Malcolm X
Title
The Life and Philosophy of Malcolm X
Malcolm X for Beginners
Teaching Malcolm X
Biographies (BIO) Rosa Parks
Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope and the Heart of a Woman Who Changes a Nation
Dates with History: 1 December 1995 – Rosa Parks and her Protest for Civil Rights
Dates with History: 1 December 1995 – Rosa Parks and her Protest for Civil Rights
Graphic Biographies: Rosa Parks – The Life of a
Civil Rights Heroine (2 copies)
Biographies (BIO) Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole Assembly pack – 7 OHP slides (two copies)
Author(s)
Sande Smith
Bernard Aquina Doctor
Theresa Perry (Editor)
Rosa Parks with Gregory J
Reed
Phillip Steele
Phillip Steele
Rob Shone and Nick
Spender (Ill)
Mary Seacole Teacher’s Pack, includes script for a short play, and an audio cassette (recording of the play?)
Racism and Resistance: Mary Seacole – active learning materials for anti-racist education in drama, english and humanities
Who was Mary Seacole?
Famous People, Famous Lives
A short history of Mary Seacole: a resource for nurses and students (2 copies)
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many
Lands
Hoorah for Mary Seacole
History Stories: Mary Seacole
Tell Me About Pioners: Mary Seacole
The Life of Mary Seacole (2 copies)
History Makers: Mary Seacole… and the Crimean
War
Irma Whitehead, Minority
Group Support Service,
Coventry LEA
The Black Cultural Archives,
The Florence Nightingale
Museum
Leicestershire Advisory
Drama Team and
Leicestershire Centre for
Multicultural Education
Paul Harrison
Harriet Castor and Lynne
Willey (Ill)
Professor Elizabeth N
Anionwu, Royal College of
Nursing
Ziggi Alexander and Audrey
Dewjee (Editors)
Trish Cooke and Anni
Axworthy (Ill)
Sylvia Collicot and Beryl
Sanders (Ill)
John Malam
Sarah Ridley
Published
1993
1992
1996
1994
2002
2007
2007
1992
2007
1999
2005
1984
2007
1991
1999
2005
2009
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse who became the Heroine of the Crimea
Biographies (BIO) Other
Dream to Win: Lewis Hamiliton
Matthew Henson [explorer]
Kelly Holmes and the Olympics – Interactive CD for
KS2 – Linden Primary School, Crown Hills City
Learning Centre
Kelly Holmes
The Life of Stephen Lawrence (with notes about use with Year 6 children)
Steve and me: my friendship with Stephen
Lawrence and the search for justice
The Boy from Nine Miles: The Early Life of Bob
Marley
Bob Marley “Talking”
The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American
Inventor [Elijah McCoy]
History in Action: Heroes or Villains – Video + notes
Nelson Mandela (Yasser Arafat, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Mahatma Gandhi)
What are you Figuring Out Now? A Story about
Benjamin Bannaker [mathematician]
The Great Marcus Garvey
Desert Flower: the extraordinary story of a desert nomad
Desert Dawn
Jim Braithwaite [entrepreneur]
Charles Drew [physician]
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of “Brave
Bessie” Coleman [Somali and English]
Malorie Blackman [writer]
All About Malorie Blackman
Ragtime Tumpie [Josephine Baker]
Author(s)
Jane Robinson
Roy Apps and Chris King (Ill)
Maryann N Weidt
Minority Ethnic Language and Achievement Centre,
Leicester LEA
Andy Croft
Verna Allette Wilkins and
Lynne Willey (Ill)
Duwayne Brooks with
Simon Hattenstone
Cedella Marley, Gerald
Hausman and Mariah Fox
(Ill)
Ian McCann (Editor)
Wendy Towle and Will Clay
(Ill)
Channel 4 Schools
Jeri Ferris and Amy Johnson
(Ill)
Liz Mackie
Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie with Jeanne
D’Haem
Verna Williams and Dave
Thomson (Ill)
Robyn Mahone-Lonesome
Reeve Lindbergh and
Pamela Paparone (Ill)
Verna Wilkins, Virginia Gray
(Ill)
Shaun McCarthy
Alan Schroder and Bernie
Fuchs (Ill)
Published
2006
2008
2003
2007
2001
2003
2002
1993
1993
1998
1988
1987
1998
2002
2000
1990
1996
2000
2003
1989
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Famous People - Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
Muhammad Ali [heavy weight champion]
Graphic Biographies – Oprah Winfrey: The Life of a
Media Superstar
Benjamin Zephaniah [poet]
Benjamin Zephaniah [poet]
Rudolph Walker
Desmond Tutu
Tell me about pioneers: Sojourner Truth
Samantha Tross [surgeon]
John Taylor Lord Taylor of Warwick [barrister]
Baroness Scotland of Asthal [Queen’s Council and politician]
Chinwe Roy
Jesse Owens [athlete]
Author(s)
Jason Hook
Jack Rummel
Gary Jeffery and Terry Riley
(Ill)
Verna Wilkins
Verna Wilkins
Verna Wilkins
David Winner
John Malam
Verna Wilkins and Gillian
Hunt (Ill)
Onyekachi Wambu and
Gillian Hunt (Ill)
Sue Adler and Catherine
Ward (Ill)
Verna Wilkins
Jane Sutcliffe and Janice Lee
Porter [Ill]
Stompin’ at the Savoy: the story of Norma Miller Alan Govener (Editor) and
Martin French (Ill)
Barack Obama: President for a new Era Marlene Targ Brill
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (2 copies)
Nikki Grimes and Bryan
Collier (Ill)
Published
2002
1988
2007
1999
2008
2008
1989
2000
2000
2000
2001
2002
2001
2006
2009
2008
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
History (HIS)
Title
The Savage Trade
Sojourner Truth: the courageous former slave whose eloquence helped promote human equality
Sam Sharpe and the Christmas Rebellion of 1831
Author(s)
Neil Grant
Susan Taylor-Boyd
Frederick Douglass: the pathway from slavery to freedom (2 copies)
Documenting the Past: Slavery from Africa to the
Americas (2 copies)
Centre for Multicultural
Education, Leicester
Christine Hatt
Ending Slavery: an Unfinished Business (a resource pack for citizenship, history and RE) 2 copies
Citizenship Foundation,
Church Mission Society
Colonialism, Slavery and the Industrial Revolution Development Education
Centre South Yorkshire
Nightjohn
Nightjohn Teacher’s Booklet
The Black Triangle: the People of the African
Diaspora
Olaudah Equiano: Son of Africa
Gary Paulsen
Denise Savage
Armet Francis
Folk Cultures of the Slaves in Jamaica (2 copies)
Up the Learning Tree
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race
Relations Resource Centre,
Manchester
Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Marcia Vaughan and Derek
Blanks (Ill)
Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighter Minority Group Support
Service, Coventry
Ann Rossi Freedom Struggle: the Anti-Slavery Movement in
America 1830-185
Bishop Crowther
Toussanint L’Ouverture
David Sweetman
Inner London Education
Authority
Freedom Child of the Sea
The Underground Railroad
Richardo Keens-Douglas and
Julia Gukover (Ill)
Maurine F Dahlberg
Slavery in the Americas: the Underground Railroad Michael Burgan
The Penalty
The Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember
Rothley and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: the mutual endeavours of Babington, Gisborne,
Wilberforce and Macaulay
Mutiny on the Amistad: the saga of a slave revolt and its impact on American abolition, law, and diplomacy
Mal Peet
James Mellon (Editor)
Terry Sheppard and Iain
Whyte
Howard Jones
Published
1980
1990
1990
2007
2006
1992
1994
2006
1985
2006
1981
2003
2005
1981
1978
1995
2002
2006
2006
1988
2007
1987
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
The Horrors of Slavery and other writings by
Robert Wedderburn
All Aboard Reading: Amistad – the Story of a Slave
Ship
Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery
Amazing Grace – William Wilberforce and the
Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
The Black Man in America 1861 -77. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs
Two Lives – Florence Nightingale and Mary
Seacole
Whose Freedom were Africans, Caribbeans and
Indians defending in World War II?
Molly Bannaky (grandmother of Benjamin
Banneker
Racism and Resistance: The Triangular Trade (2 copies)
Author(s)
Ian McCalman (Editor)
Patricia C McKissack and
Sanna Stanley (Ill)
Lucille Mathurin Mair
Eric Metaxas
Florence Jackson
Eric L Huntley
Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Free at Last: Stories and Songs of Emancipation
Follow the Drinking Gourd
History Topics: Black Peoples of America
Voices of the Transatlantic Slave Trade – DVD and teachers’ notes
Amistad – teachers’ notes and activities relating to the film
Black Odyssey: the Afro-American Ordeal in
Slavery
History File: Black Peoples of America – video 5 x
20 minute programmes on:
1.
The Atlantic slave trade
2.
Everyday life under slavery
3.
Resistance, rebellion and abolition
4.
After emancipation
5.
Civil Rights in the USA
Marika Sherwood and
Martin Spafford
Alice McGill and Chris K
Soentpiet (Ill)
Leicestershire Advisory
Drama Team and
Leicestershire Centre for
Multicultural Education
Doreen Rappaport and
Shane W Evans (Ill)
Doreen Rappaport and
Shane W Evans (Ill)
Jeanette Winter
Ann Kramer
The Understanding Slavery
Initiative and the British and
Commonwealth Museum
Film Education
Nathan Irvin Huggins
BBC
Published
1991
2005
1986
2007
1972
1993
1999
2006
2004
1988
2002
2004
1998
1977
2003
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
History File: American Voices – video 6 x 20 minute programmes on:
1.
The Immigrant’s Story
2.
The Flapper’s Story
3.
The Farmer’s Story
4.
The Hobo’s Story
5.
The New Dealer’s Story
6.
The GI’s Story
Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves
Author(s)
BBC
Out of Slavery – Learning the History of British
Black Caribbean People
To Shoot Hard Labour: the Life and Times of
Samuel Smith, and Antiguan workingman 1977-
1982
The Cimaroons
Turning Points in History – The Abolition of Slavery
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet
Jacobs
Black Americans of Achievement – Sojourner
Truth, Antislavery Activist
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Robert S Starobin
Nardia Foster
Keithlyn B Smith and
Fernando C Smith
Robert Leeson
Janet Riehecky
Mary E Lyons
Peter Krass
The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica
A Jamaican Plantation: the History of Worthy Park
1670-1970
Early Trade in Eastern Africa
Michael Martin, Dave
Hooper (Ill) and Bill
Anderson (Ill)
Carey Robinson
Michael Graton and James
Walvin
JEG Suton, the Historical
Association of Tanzania
The Impact of Empire: A World Study of the British
Empire 1585 to the present
Black Peoples of the Americas 1500 to 1900s
Jamie Byrom, Michael Riley and Christopher Culpin
Donald Hinds
Donald Hinds Black Peoples of the Americas 1500 to 1900s:
Teacher’s Notes
Susie King Taylor: Destined to be Free
The Day God Came
Denise Jordan and Higgins
Bond (Ill)
T Berry and Paul Hoffman
(ll)
Tom Monaghan Events and Outcomes: The Slave Trade
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road Julius Lester and Rod Brown
(Ill)
Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighter Assembly Pack Minority Group Support
Service, Coventry
Published
2002
1988
2004
1985
1978
2002
1992
1988
2005
1969
1970
1973
2004
1992
1992
1994
1993
2002
1998
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title Author(s)
Tacky: Freedom Fighter and Folk Hero (2 copies) Mary Dixon and Lascelles
Lee (Ill)
Nanny of the Maroons
Voice of Freedom: A Story about Frederick
Douglass
Britain, the Slave Trade and Slavery from 1562 to the 1880s
Susanna Watts 1768-1842 Author of Leicester’s
First Guide, Abolitionist and Bluestocking
The Morant Bay Rebellion: The Story of George
William Gordon and Paul Bogle
Olaudah Equiano
Karl Phillpotts and Wilfred
Limonious (Ill)
Maryann N Weidt and Jeni
Reeves (Ill)
Marika Sherwood and Kim
Sherwood
Shirley Aucott
Amistad (Junior Novelization of the Stephen
Spielberg film)
Caribbean Landmarks: Historic Events and Sites
Tell Me About Pioneers – Sojouner Truth
Understanding Slavery Initiative – Unlocking
Perceptions Booklet (*teaching approaches, use of language)
Understanding Slavery Initiative – The Citizenship
Resource Pack – Citizenship and the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade: Routes, Activism,
Identity, Heritage
Mary Dixon and Wilfred
Limonious (Ill)
Hugh Sinclair and Ossie
Murray (Ill)
D’Arcy and Evadne Adrian-
Vallence
Lennox Honychurch
John Malam
The Understanding Slavery
Initiative was a national education project funded by the Strategic Commissioning
National/ Regional
Partnerships Programme. It involved five museums – the
National Maritime Museum,
National Museums
Liverpool, British Empire and Commonwealth
Museum, Bristol City
Museums, Galleries and
Archives, and Hull Museums and Art Gallery.
Shirley Aucott Elizabeth Heyrick1769 to 1831: The Leicester
Quaker who demanded the immediate emancipation of slaves in the British Colonies
Lives in Crisis: The African American Slave Trade
The Changing Face of Slavery (teaching pack and video)
Time and the River
Tell all the Children Our Story: Memories and
Mementos of being Young and Black in America
Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about
Sojouner Truth
R G Grant
Anti-Slavery International
Zee Edgell
Tonya Bolden
Jerri Ferris and Peter E
Hanson (Ill)
Published
1990
1990
2001
2007
2004
1990
1997
1986
2000
2008
2007
2002
2007
2001
1988
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Graphic Biographies – Harriet Tubman: The Life of an American African Abolitionist
Lives and Times: Harriet Tubman
Growing up in Slavery: stories of young slaves as told by themselves
Author(s)
Rob Shone and Anita Ganeri
(Illustrations by Rob Shone)
John Rowley
Yubval Tayor (Editor) and
Kathleen Judg (Ill)
Catherine House
Published
2007
1997
2005
Voices Against Slavery: Ten Christians who spoke out for Freedom
Slave Ship Captain: the story of John Newton
Set all Free DVD Teacher’s Resource (to accompany 3 books Son of Africa, Fighting for
Freedom and Freedom Now! – need to check where these are)
Roots – 25 th
anniversary DVD of the TV series (6 episodes)
The Bone Room
Carolyn Scott
Faith in Action Series
Warner Home Video
2006
1971
2007
2001
Chains
Richard B Moore: Caribbean Militant in Harlem – collected writings 1920-1972
Unheard Voices
Coram Boy
Equiano’s Travels: His Autobiography – The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
From Slave Boy to Bishop: The Story of Samuel
Adjai Crowther
Underground to Canada (2 copies)
Anne Cassidy
Frances Mary Hendry
W Burghardt Turner and
Joyce Moore Turner
(Editors)
Malorie Blackman
Jamila Gavin
Paul Edwards (Editor)
Paul Edwards (Edited)
John Milsome
2007
2000
1988
2007
2004
1789/1967
1989
Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History
People of Courage and Concern
Slaves and Captains
I, Juan de Pareja
Barbara Smucker
Julius Lester
RH Horton
Rhodri Jones
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1977
1972
1979
1988
1965
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave
Houston A Baker Jr (Editor)
Frederick Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom John David Smith (Editor)
1845/1982
1855/2003
Lessons from History: A Celebration in Blackness Jawanza Kuniufu 1987
1996 Reclaiming Our Pasts: Equality and Diversity in the
Primary History Curriculum (2 copies)
Hilary Claire
The Routledge Atlas of African American History Jonathan Earle
The Past In Question
Britain and the Black Peoples of the Americas
1550-1930
Gary Patrick
Joan Tucker
2000
1990
1992
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Equiano: The Slave Who Fought to be Free
Daily Life on a Slave Plantation
Mean to be Free (script for a play)
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic
Slave Route
African History for Beginners
Food (FOO)
A Kwanzaa Keepsake: celebrating the holidays with new traditions and feasts
Kwanzaa: an African-American Celebration of
Culture and Cooking
Tastes of Kenya
Calabash! Traditional Caribbean Remedies,
Memories and Stories (3 copies)
Windward Isles – PowerPoint presentation on disk and teachers’ notes
A Flavour of the Caribbean (2 copies)
A Flavour of West Africa
Caribbean Cooking Workshop
Traditional Jamaican Cookery
African Food and Drink
The Khalid Aziz Book of Simple Caribbean Cooking
(2 copies)
A Taste of West Africa
Art (ART)
Township Art: Contemporary South African Artists
- Video
Art of the South African Townships
Art of the Caribbean – teachers’ notes and postcards
African Heritage: Homesteads
African Textiles (laminated postcards)
African Masks: An Introduction
Author(s)
Joyce Ozynski, Harriet
Perlman and Rick Andrew
(lll)
Paul Erikson
Joanna Halpert Kraus and
Cecily O’Neill
Saidiya Hartman
Herb Boyd
Jessica B Harris
Eric V Coupage
Kathy Eldon and Eamon
Mullan
Leicester Libraries
Farming and Countryside
Education (FACE),
Windwards Bananas
Linda Illsely
Alison Brownlie
Nina Franklin
Norma Benghiat
Martin Gibrill
Khalid Aziz and Robin
Lawrie (Ill)
Colin Harris
Devon County Council
Gavin Younge
The Goodwill Art Service
Peter Magubane
Newark Museum
Martin Barrall and Felix
Cobbson
Published
1988
1999
1990
2007
1994
1995
1991
1981
2008
2004
1988
2003
2001
1994
1998
1998
1985
1989
1982
1994
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
Masks Activity Sheet
Black Art: A cultural history
African Art
Nigeria’s Traditional Crafts
Asafo! African Flags of the Fante
Zimbabwe Crafts (exhibition programme)
African Traditional Architecture
Adrinka – primary project based on a textile tradition from Ghana
African Art and Culture
Heart of West Africa : textiles and global issues (2 copies)
Author(s)
Commonwealth Institute
Richard J Powell
Frank Willet
Alison Hodge
Peter Adler and Nicholas
Barnard
Susan Denyer
Cathy Growney and Barbara
Lowe
Jane Bingham
Nicci Wilson
African Designs of the Congo
Smashing Pots: Feats of Clay from Africa
Caren Caraway
Nigel Barley
British Museum Pattern Books: African Designes Rebecca Jewell
Art and Craft in Africa – everyday life, ritual, court art
Caribbean Art
Laure Meyer
Veerie Poupeye
Entertainment (ENT), includes music, drama and games
Steel Band Kit Book
The History of the Steel Band (includes a CD of steel band music)
The Steel Band (copies)
Elizabeth Sharma
Verna Wilkins, Michael La
Rose and Lynne Willey (Ill)
John Bartholomew
Play Pan: Learn Music the Steel Pan Way (2 copies) Terry Noel and Jill Scarfe
Omutugwa: Time and Tune Primary Music Course based on a Kenyan story and songs from different
African countries (booklet + 3 audio cassettes)
Carnival in Trinidad – audio CD
BBC Educational Publishing
Siku Ile – audio CD – Congolese music
Sound Trackers: Blues
Sound Trackers: Soul
Sound Trackers: Reggae
Song Games from Trinidad and Tobago
Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and other talking drum rhymes
Theatre in the Caribbean
“Barriers” – Using drama as a learning medium to explore the issues of inequality, racism, sexism and rejection in a variety of curriculum areas
(Secondary) – 2 copies
Zigy Flavien and Bana Congo
Bob Brunning
Bob Brunning
Bob Brunning
J D Elder
Uzo Unobagha and Julia
Cairns (Ill)
Ken Corsbie
Alison Dimbleby and George
Sfougaras
Published
2002
2002
1982
1992
1983
1978
2007
2003
2001
1986
1994
1994
1995
1998
1989
2006
1980
1988
1999
2002
2002
1998
1964
2005
1984
1990
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Education (EDU)
Black and Mixed Heritage (370.19342)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
Granpa, Is Everything Black Bad?
On the Front Line: Struggling for Civil Rights
You’ll be me, I’ll be you
The Best of Both Worlds… Celebrating Mixed
Parentage
How the West Indian Child is made Educationally
Sub-normal in the British School System
West Indian Children in Our Schools: A Brief Guide to the Interim report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic
Minority Groups
Author(s)
Sandy Lynne Holman and
Lela Kometiani (Ill)
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Pili Madlebaum
Early Years Trainers Anti-
Racist Network
Bernard Coard
Published
2000
2005
1990
1971
1981
The Black Diaspora
30 At The Turning of the Tide (a publication to mark the 3oth anniversary of the creation of the
Commission for Racial Equality)
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black
British Youth Identities
Black Youth, Rastafarianism, and the Identity Crisis in Britain
Black Masculinities: How Black boys survive modern schooling
Ronald Segal
Commission for Racial
Equality
Claire Alexander
Len Garrison
Tony Sewell
1995
2006
1996
1979
1997
Minority Ethnic Achievement (370.19)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
1991
2004
Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children Amos N. Wilson
Ensuring the attainment of Black Caribbean Boys Department for Education and Skills
Recent Research on the Achievements of Ethnic
Minority Pupils (Ofsted reviews of research)
Building Futures: Believing in Children – a focus on provision for Black children in the Early Years
Foundation Stage
David Gillborn, Caroline
Gipps
Department for Children,
Schools and Families
1996
2009
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Title
REACH: an independent report to Government on raising the aspirations and attainment of Black boys and young Black men (with Government response)
Author(s)
REACH
Published
2007
Diversity and Equality (370.117)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
1984 Curriculum Opportunities in a Multicultural Society Alma Craft, Geoff Bardell
(Editors)
Teaching Racism or Tackling It? Multicultural
Stories from white beginning teachers
Russell Jones
Here, there and everywhere: belonging, identity and equality in schools
Robin Richardson for
Derbyshire Advisory and
Inspection Service
1999
2004
Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms Paul Gardner
Connecting Kids: Exploring Diversity Together Linda D. Hill
Changing Classroom Cultures: anti-racism, politics and schools
Debbie Epstein
2001
2001
1993
Society (SOC)
Racism (301.451)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
2005 The Search for Tolerance: Challenging and changing racist attitudes and behaviour among young people
Gerard Lemos for the
Joseph Rowntree
Foundations
Racism and Anti-Racism in Real Schools
Taking a Stand on education, race, social action and civil unrest 1980-2005
David Gillborn
Gus John
1995
2006
Just the Facts: Racism
The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
Adrian Cooper
Sir William McPherson
2003
1999
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Migration (304.8)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
The History of African and Caribbean Communities in Britain
Author(s)
Hakim Adi
Published
1995
Communities in Britain: African Caribbeans in
Britain
African Migrations
Black Britain: A photographic history
Black and British
Marches – Multiracial Britain: images from this century
Andrew Campbell
Dr Hakim Adi
Paul Gilroy
David Bygott
2005
1994
2007
1992
1981 Inner London Education
Authority
Festivals (Carnival) (394.2)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Festival! Carnival – Teacher’s notes and pupils’ worksheets
Rosalind Kerven for the
Commonwealth Institute
1986
African and Caribbean Celebrations
African Caribbean People in Leicestershire
Gail Johnson
Afrikan Caribbean Support
Group Research Project
Ezra Blondel
2007
1992
Carnival in Dominica: Bann Move Masquerade
(with DVD)
Religion (REL)
Rastafarianism (299.676)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
I am a Rastafarian
Niyabingh
Maggie Norwood (Text
Editor)
Khadijah Frischauer
2004
1986
1987
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Countries (COU)
West Indies (917.29)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
Poster Maps: The Caribbean Islands
Author(s)
Inner London Education
Authority
Mary Walters (Editor)
Published
1979
Yet We Survive: The Kalingo People of Dominica: our lives in words and pictures
Jamaica
The People of St Lucia
Kamal Goes to Trinidad
Henry Pluckrose
Alison Brownlie
Malcolm Frederick,
Prodeepta Das
2007
1998
1998
2008
Language (LAN)
Afro-Caribbean (427)
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
J. L. Dillard 1972 Black English: its history and usage in the United
States
English in Black and White
The Language of the Black Experience
Robbins Burling
David Sutcliffe, Ansel Wong
1973
1986
Primary Fiction
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Starring Grace Mary Hoffman, Caroline
Binch (Ill)
2000
Marty Monster 1999
Nowhere to Play
The Magic Backpack
Malorie Blackman, Kim
Harley (Ill)
Buchi Emecheta, Peter
Archer (Ill)
Julia Jarman, Adriano Gon
(Ill)
1980
2001
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Secondary Fiction
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
Growing Yams in London
Tell Me No Lies
AK
The Heaven Shop
In Black and White
Strawgirl
The Garbage King
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Other Side of Truth
Gangsta Rap
Author(s)
Sophia Acheampong
Malorie Blackman
Peter Dickinson
Deborah Ellis
Catherine R. Johnson
Jackie Kay
Elizabeth Laird
Harper Lee
Beverley Naidoo
Benjamin Zephaniah
Published
2006
1999
1990
2004
2000
2002
2003
1960
2000
2004
Picture books
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Amoko and Efua Bear Sonia Appiah, Carol Easman
(Ill)
1989
We’re Going on a Lion Hunt
My Two Grannies
So Much
David Axtell (Ill)
Floella Benjamin, Margaret
Chamberlain (Ill)
Trish Cooke, Helen
Oxenbury (Ill)
1999
2007
1994
A Caribbean Counting Book 1996
The Boy on the Beach
Joshua’s Masai Mask
A Letter to Amy
Runaway Jack
Caribbean Alphabet
World Team
Faustin Charles, Roberta
Arenson (Ill)
Niki Daly
Dakari Hiru, Anna Rich (Ill)
Ezra Jack Keats
Stewart Lees
Frane Lessac
Tim Vyner
1999
1993
1968
2004
1989
2002
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Resources Relating to Black History Season
Traditional stories/ myths and legends – Caribbean and West Indies
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
Tales of the Caribbean (Ginn Reading Level 10/11)
Teachers Notes (1)
Author(s)
Evan Jones
Published
1994
Stories from History (3)
The Beginning of Things (1)
Witches and Duppies (2)
The Caribs and The Birds
West Indian Folk Tales
Stories from the Caribbean
Norma McCartney, Caswell
Swaby (Ill)
Philip Sherlock
Petronella Breinberg, Sarah
1989
1966
1999
Arnold (Ill), Tina Barber (Ill)
Traditional stories/ myths and legends – Anansi Stories
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Evan Jones 1994 Tales of the Caribbean (Ginn Reading Level 10/11)
Anansi Stories
Anancy Mek It
Anancy and Mr Bone-Dry
The Invincible Brer Anansi
Peter-Paul Zahl
Fiona French
David P Makhanlall
2003
1991
1974
Poetry
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
I Din do Nuttin and other poems John Agard, Susanna Gretz
(Ill)
1983
1986 Say it again, Granny! Twenty Poems from
Caribbean Proverbs
Nathaniel Talking
New Caribbean Poetry – An Anthology
Too Black; Too Strong
John Agard, Susanna Gretz
(Ill)
Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey
Gilchrist (Ill)
Kei Miller (Ed)
Benjamin Zephaniah
1988
2007
2001
23

Resources Relating to Black History Season
Traditional Songs and Rhymes
There are a number of books in this section. Here is a selection to give you an idea of the kind of books that you will find.
Title
Sing Me a Story: Song and Dance Tales from the
Caribbean
Creepy Crawly Calypso (with CD)
Mango Spice (with CD, 2 copies)
Café Jamaica CD: Roots, Rum and Reggae
Best of Caribbean Steel Drums
Author(s)
Grace Hallworth, John
Clementson (Ill)
Tony Langham, Debbie
Harter (Ill)
Yvonne Conolly, Gloria
Canerson, Sonia Singham
Lambeth Community Youth
Steel Orchestra
Published
2001
2004
2001
2005
1995
Big Books
Down By the River: Afro-Caribbean Rhymes,
Games and Songs for Children (3 copies)
Anancy and Mr Bone-Dry
Grace Hallworth, Caroline
Binch (Ill)
Fiona French
1996
1991
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