Elaine McDonald
SHS Library Media Center
BLACK HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES - BOOKS
Title in red are new this year
Race and Racism
A Time to Be Human by John Howard Griffen
Minorities, edited by Mary Williams
Racism, edited by Jennifer Hurley
The Riddle of Racism by Carl Hirsch
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings
Racism in America: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by William Dudley
Race Relations by Hal Marcovitz
Racial Discrimination, edited by Mitchell Young
Teens & Race by Hal Marcovitz
Overcoming Prejudice by Tracy Baptiste
Racial Profiling by Tamra Orr
African American History
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage by Walter Dean Myers
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America by Deborah Hopkinson
The History of the Black Church by Norma Jean Lutz
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett
The African-American Slave Trade by Christine Hatt
The Scottsboro Boys Trial: A Primary Source Account by Lita Sorenson
Voices of Triumph: Perseverance, by the editors of Time-Life Books
Rifles and War Bonnets by Marian Place
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom by Herbert Gutman
Blacks in America by Earl Spangler
An Illustrated History of Black Americans by John Franklin
Chronology of African American History by Alton Hornsby
Life on an African Slave Ship by J. Kleinman and E. Kurtis-Kleinman
The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delaney (father of Black Nationalism) by Dorothy Sterling
A Pictorial History of Black Americans by Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer and C. Eric Lincoln
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Cause: Reconstruction America by Tonya Bolden
Civil Rights
Freedom Summer by David Aretha
Selma and the Voting Rights Act by David Aretha
Marching in Birmingham by William Boerst
When the Children Marched by Robert Mayer
The Murder of Emmett Till by David Aretha
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery by Fradin and Fradin
The American Civil Rights Movement: The African American Struggle for Equality by Linda Jacobs Altman
The African American Struggle for Legal Equality in American History by Carole Boston Weatherford
There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights by Milton Meltzer
Desegregation, edited by Nick Treanor
The NAACP by Darren Rhym
Civil Rights, edited by Mary Williams
The Civil Rights Movement by James Tackach
Civil Rights by David Seidman
The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy by Anna Kosof
Civil Rights, edited by Grant McClellan
Famous Supreme Court Cases by Andrew David
Runaway Slaves, edited by Karin Coddon
Slave Rebellions by Jessica Gresko
Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman
Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance in American History by Ann Graham Gaines
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
The Harlem Renaissance by James Haskins
The Harlem Renaissance by Stuart Kallen
Music, Filmmaking, Visual Arts
The History of Rap and Hip-Hop by Soren Baker
Hip-Hop Around the World by Ida Walker
From Ragtime to Hip-Hop: A Century of Black American Music by Adam Woog
Voices of Triumph: Creative Fire, by the editors of Time-Life Books
Black Filmmakers by Cookie Lommel
Black Music by LeRoi Jones
Black Gospel by Vic Broughton
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Hip-Hop: A Short History by Rosa Waters
Biographies - Civil Rights Leaders and Activists
W.E.B. Dubois by P. and F. McKissack
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers
Malcolm X by Miriam Sagan
The Story of Malcolm X by Megan Stine
Up with Hope: A Biography of Jesse Jackson by Dorothy Chaplik
Jesse Jackson by B. Steffens and Dan Woog
Martin Luther King Jr. by John Wukovits
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Julian Bond: Black Rebel by John Neary
Andrew Young: Man with a Mission by James Haskins
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by J.B. and D.B. Fradin
Al Sharpton by Hal Marcovitz
The Story of Harriet Tubman by Steven Petruccio
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Known and the Unknown by Edward Wagenknecht
Victorian Cinderella: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Phyllis Wynn Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author and Abolitionist by Robert Jakoubek
Nat Turner by Terry Bisson
Champions of Equality by Laurie Lindop
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Mr. Black Labor: The Story of A. Philip Randolph, Father of the Civil Rights Movement by Daniel Davis
Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls by Dorothy Sterling
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Biographies – Writers, Composers, Artists
Maya Angelou by Terrasita Cuffie
Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet by Elaine Lisandrelli
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovani: Poet of the People by Judith Josephson
Langston Hughes by S.L. Berry
Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins
Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet From Chicago by Martha Rhynes
Terry McMillan by Bruce and Becky Fish
Walter Dean Myers: Writer for Real Teens by Denise Jordan
Walter Dean Myers by Karen Burstein
Toni Morrison: Telling a Tale Untold by Jim Haskins
Toni Morrison by Douglas Century
Horace Pippin: The Artist As a Black American by Selden Rodman and Carole Cleaver
William Grant Still: African American Composer by Catherine Reef
Scott Joplin: Composer by Katherine Preston
Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Quenton Fisher
That Dunbar Boy by Jean Gould
Paul Dunbar and His Song by Virginia Cunningham
The Story of Phillis Wheatley: Poetess of the American Revolution by Shirley Graham
Biographies – Political Leaders, Scientists, Doctors, Academics, Business Persons, Etc.
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Barack Obama by Tom Robinson
Barack Obama: We Are One People by Michael Schuman
George Washington Carver by Rackham Holt
George Washington Carver by Anne Terry White
Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams (an Eliot Rosewater Award book)
Mae Jemison by LeeAnne Gelletly
Madam C. J. Walker: Self-Made Businesswoman by Della Yannuzzi
Colin Powell by John Wukovits
Condoleeza Rice by Gloria Blakely
Mary McLeod Bethune by Emma Gelders Sterne
Mary McLeod Bethune by Catherine Owens Peare
Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller
Breaking the Barriers: A Memoir by Carl T. Rowan
Your Most Humble Servant: The Story of Benjamin Banneker by Shirley Graham
Biographies – Actors, Singers, Musicians, and Other Entertainers
Yung Joc by Rosa Waters
DMX by Toby Hamilton
OutKast by Jacquelyn Simone
John Coltrane: Jazz Revolutionary by Rachel Stiffler Barron
Aretha Franklin by Jim McAvoy
Morgan Freeman by Gina De Angelis
Queen Latifah by Sharon Bloom
Oprah Winfrey by Judith Janda Presnall
Denzel Washington by Anne Hill
Wesley Snipes by Roe Blue and Corinne Naden
Whoopi Goldberg by William Caper
Cuba Gooding Jr. by Paula Edelson
Angela Bassett by Dawn FitzGerald
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Trumpeter’s Tale: The Story of Young Louis Armstrong by Elton Fax
Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music by Hettie Jones
Missy Elliott by John Bankston
Alicia Keys by John Bankston
Jay-Z by John Bankston
Tyra Banks by Terri Dougherty
Chris Brown by James Hooper
Jamie Foxx by Terri Dougherty
Lil Wayne by Janice Rockworth
Chris Rock by David Robson
Biographies – Athletes
Brian Westrook by David Robson
Devin Hester by Jeff Young
Randy Moss by David Robson
Ray Lewis by Jeremy Dunn
Kevin Garnett by J Chris Roselius
Tiki Barber by Tom Needham
Adrian Peterson by Stephen Currie
Venus Williams by Sandy Asirvatham
Driven from Within by Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan by David Pietrusza
Tiger Woods by Jeremy Roberts
Lisa Leslie by Jeff Savage
Vince Carter by John Albert Torres
Shaquille O’Neal by John Albert Torres
Muhammad Ali by Wilfred Sheed
LeBron James by Ken Rappoport
LaDainian Tomlinson by Craig Ellenport
Tim Duncan by J. Chris Roselius
Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy
Trevon Jenifer by Trevon Jenifer
Collective Biographies
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and
Ramek Hunt
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Helped Us Succeed by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Ramek
Hunt
Black Heroes in our Nation’s History: A Tribute to Those Who Helped Shape America by Phillip Dro
Lift Every Voice by Dorothy Sterling and Benjamin Quarles
Black Foremothers: Three Lives by Dorothy Sterling
Other Nonfiction Books
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Reference Library of Black America, edited by Harry Ploski
Voices of Triumph: Leadership, by the editors of Time-Life Books
A Proud People: Black Americans by Irving Werstein
Poetry
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Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis Crisler (2008-2009 Eliot Rosewater Book)
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Carver, a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Nappy Edges by Ntozake Shange
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Black Judgement by Nikki Giovanni
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems By African Americans, edited by Arnold Adoff
Fiction
The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Sounder by William Armstrong
Portrait of Margarita by Ruth M. Arthur
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Zack by William Bell (Eliot Rosewater Award Book)
Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers by Arna Bontemps
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
Stealing Freedom by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Born in Sin by Evelyn Coleman
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Burning Up by Caroline Cooney
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe (based on the story of Emmett Till)
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Mare’s War by Tanita Davis
The Barred Road by Adele DeLeeuw
Drama High Series by L. Divine
Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper (Eliot Rosewater Award book)
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper (ALA Best Books for Young Adults)
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper (1998 Coretta Scott King Award)
Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon Draper
Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper (2004 Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
November Blues by Sharon Draper
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (2007 Coretta Scott King Award)
Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper (2008 Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury
Thorpe by Mary Dutton
Annie, Between the States by Laura Elliot
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Bang! by Sharon Flake
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost (Eliot Rosewater Award book)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (Eliot Rosewater Award book)
Little Vic by Doris Gates
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (2003 Coretta Scott King Award)
Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes (Coretta Scott King Honor book)
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New Guys Around the Block by Rosa Guy
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
Journey All Alone by Deloris Harrison
Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
Jazz Country by Nat Hentoff
The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
The Sickest Don’t Always Die the Quickest by Jesse Jackson
Bird by Angela Johnson
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Heaven by Angela Johnson (1999 Coretta Scott King Award)
Come by Here by Milton Johnson
A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Eliot Rosewater Award book)
Day of Tears: a Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester (2006 Coretta Scott King Award)
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
The Hallelujah Flight by Jack Lynn
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Julie’s Heritage by Catherine Marshall
One Summer in Between by Melissa Mather
Teacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell Mathis
Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
Harlem Hustle by Janet McDonald
Spellbound by Janet McDonald
Off-color by Janet McDonald
Brother Hood by Janet McDonald
Gre By Secret Railway by Enid La Monte Meadowcroft
at Day in the Morning by Florence Crannell Means
Reach for a Star by Florence Crannell Means
Shuttered Windows by Florence Crannell Means
Tolliver by Florence Crannell Means
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Newbery Honor Book)
Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (1989 Coretta Scott King Award)
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers
Game by Walter Dean Myers
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers (1985 Coretta Scott King Award)
145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
Slam by Walter Dean Myers (1997 Coretta Scott King Award)
Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers
A Summer of Kings by Han Nolan
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry
Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry
Me Taking Liberty by Ann Rinaldi
Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi
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Member of the Gang by Barbara Rinkoff
Lions in the Way by Bella Rodman
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
Roosevelt Grady by Louisa R. Shotwell
The Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Hip-hop High School by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Homeboyz by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Skeeter by K. Smith
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
Mary Jane by Dorothy Sterling
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor (1982 Coretta Scott King Award)
Black and White by Paul Volponi
Rooftop by Paul Volponi
Rucker Part Setup by Paul Volponi
Response by Paul Volponi
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ludell and Willie by Brenda Wilkinson
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods (Eliot Rosewater Award book)
I Hadn’t Meant To Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson (Coretta Scott King Honor book)
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson
Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
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