A SELECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT BLACK HISTORY @ DECATUR
A SELECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT BLACK HISTORY @ DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY The books listed are fiction, non-fiction and Reference. They are listed in alphabetical order by title, with their library location included. If you have any questions about how to find these titles, please ask a library staff member. TITLE 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History A Gathering Of Old Men A Raisin In The Sun African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, And Beyond African-American Firsts All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes AUTHOR Jeffrey C. Stewart LOCATION 973 STE Ernest J. Gaines Lorraine Hansberry Richard J. Powell And Virginia M. Mecklenburg Joan Potter & Constance Claytor Maya Angelou F GAINES 812.54 HAN 704.03 AFR All Guts And No Glory All-Bright Court All-Night Visitors America Is Me America’s Black Musical Heritage American Nightmare: The History Of Jim Crow American Slavery, 1619 – 1877 An Illustrated History Of Black Americans And So I Sing And Still I Rise: Poems Angel Of Harlem Aristocrats Of Color: The Black Elites, 1880 – 1920 Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970 Billy Black Art And Culture In The 20th Century Black Boy Black Culture And Black Consciousness: AfroAmerican Folk Thought From Slavery To Freedom Black Empire Black History For Beginners Black History: More Than Just A Month Black Leaders Of The Nineteenth Century Black Like Me Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown To Dreamgirls Black Popular Music In America Black Profiles In Courage: A Legacy Of AfricanAmerican Achievement Black Reconstruction In America: 1860 – 1880 Black Water Rising: A Novel Blues People: Negro Music In White America Clockers Coffee Will Make You Black Bill Elder Connie Porter Clarence Major Kennell Jackson Tilford Brooks Jerrold M. Packard Peter Kolehin John Hope Franklin Rosalyn M. Story Maya Angelou Kiwana Haisey Willard B. Gatewood Charles Johnson Albert French Richard J. Powell Richard Wright Lawrence W. Levine 973 POT B ANGELOU C.1 796.32 ELD F POR F MAJOR 973 JAC 781.7296 BRO 973 PAC 306.3 KOL 301.451 FRA 782.1092 STO 811.54 ANG F HAULSEY 973 GAT 810.9 JOH F FRE 709.6 POW B WRIGHT 398.2 LEV George S. Schuyler Denise Dennis Mike Henry Leon Litwack And August Meier, Eds. John Howard Griffin Allen Woll F SCH 305 DEN 973.0496 HEN 920 BLA 301.451 GRI 782.81 WOL Arnold Shaw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar And Alan Steinberg W. E. B. Du Bois Attica Locke Imamu Amiri Baraka Richard Price April Sinclair 781.7296 SHA 973.0496 ABD 973 DUB F LOCKE 781.773 BAR F PRI F SINCLAIR Cotton Comes To Harlem Creating Black Americans: African-American History And Its Meanings, 1619 To The Present Daughters Dreamer: A Novel Fatheralong Feeding The Ghosts Flight Of The Blackbird Flying Home And Other Stories Foxholes And Color Lines : Desegregating The U.S. Armed Forces Fragments Of The Ark: A Novel Free Free At Last From Cakewalks To Concert Halls: An Illustrated History Of African American Popular Music From 1895 To 1930 Gather Together In My Name Go Tell It On The Mountain Guts: Legendary Black Rodeo Cowboy Bill Pickett Harlem’s Glory Her Own Place Historic Speeches Of African Americans Honey, Hush! An Anthology Of African American Women’s Humor I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings I, Too, Sing America: The African American Book Of Days Invisible Man Jubilee Jubilee: The Emergence Of African-American Culture Juneteenth: A Novel Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water ‘Fore I Diiie Just Plain Folks Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513 – 2008 Long Memory: The Black Experience In America Malcolm X As They Knew Him Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries Of Slavery In North America Middle Passage: A Novel My Jim Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Nowhere Is A Place Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well On The Bus With Rosa Parks On The Real Side: Laughing, Lying, And Signifying Only Twice I’ve Wished For Heaven Our Kind Of People Panther Baby Chester Himes Nell Irvin Painter F HIMES 973 PAI Paule Marshall Charles Johnson John Edgar Wideman Fred D’Aguiar Faye McDonald Smith Ralph Ellison Sherie Mershon And Steven Schlossman Louise Meriwether Marsha Hunt Ira Berlin, Ed. Thomas L. Morgan F MAR F JOHNSON B WIDEMAN F D'AGUIAR F SMITH F ELLISON 355.0089 MER Maya Angelou James Baldwin Cecil Johnson Lorraine Elena Roses & Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, Eds. Dori Sanders Warren J. Halliburton Daryl Cumber, Ed. B ANGELOU F BALDWIN B PICKETT 810.8 HAR Maya Angelou Paula L. Woods B ANGELOU R 973.0496 WOO F ELLISON F WALKER 305.896 DOD F ELLISON 811.54 ANG F JOH 973.049 GAT Ralph Ellison Margaret Walker Howard Dodson Ralph Ellison Maya Angelou Lorraine Johnson-Coleman Henry Louis Gates, Jr. F MER F HUN 973.04 FRE 781.64 MOR F SANDERS 815 HIS 817.008 HON Mary Frances Berry & John W. Blassingame3 David Gallen Ira Berlin 973 BER Charles Johnson Nancy Rawles Frederick Douglass Bernice L. McFadden Maya Angelou Rita Dove Mel Watkins Dawn Turner Trice Lawrence Otis Graham Jamal Joseph F JOH F RAWLES B DOUGLASS F McFADDEN 811.54 ANG 811.54 DOV 792.2 WAT F TRICE 305.896 GRA B JOSEPH BX 306.3 BER Possessing The Secret Of Joy Preaching With Sacred Fire: An Anthology Of African American Sermons, 1750 To The Present Pride: A Novel Quicksand And Passing Alice Walker Edited By Martha Simmons And Frank A. Thomas. Lorene Cary Nella Larsen Quiet Strength Red River: A Novel Remembering Slavery Ring Around The Moon Salvage The Bones Self-Taught: African American Education In Slavery And Freedom Silver Sparrow Slavery By Another Name : The Re-Enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II Some Glad Morning Song Yet Sung Soul Music: The Birth Of A Sound In Black America Southern League Standing At The Scratch Line Such Sweet Thunder Survival Pending Revolution: The History Of The Black Panther Party Talk That Talk: An Anthology Of African-American Storytelling The African American Experience: Black History And Culture The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks To Colin Powell The Autobiography Of Malcolm X The Avenue, Clayton City The Black 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential African-Americans, Past And Present The Black Family In Slavery And Freedom, 1750 – 1925 The Black Presence In The Era Of The American Revolution The Black Tradition In American Dance The Bluest Eye The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes The Color Purple The Complete Collected Poems The Complete Short Stories The Encyclopedia Of African-American Heritage The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African The Serpent’s Gift The Sisterhood Of Blackberry Corner The Souls Of Black Folk The Tuskegee Airmen The Wake Of The Wind Tony Dungy Lalita Tademy F WAL 252 PRE Mary Burnett Smith Jesmyn Ward Heather Andrea Williams F CARY 813.52 LARSEN B DUNGY F TADEMY 306.362 REM F SMITH F WARD 370.89 WIL Tayari Jones Douglas A. Blackmon F JONES 305.896 BLA Irene J. Steele James McBride Michael Haralambos Larry Colton Guy Johnson Vincent O. Carter Paul Alkebulan F STEELE F MCBRIDE 784.55 HAR C.1 796.357 COL F JOHNSON F CARTER 332.4 ALK 398.2089 Kay Wright, Ed. 973.049 AFR Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael Lee Lanning 355 AFR Malcolm X C. Eric Lincoln Columbus Salley BX F LIN 973.0496 SAL Herbert G. Gutman 301.42 GUT Sidney Kaplan And Emma Nogrady Kaplan Richard A. Long Toni Morrison Langston Hughes Alice Walker Maya Angelou Langston Hughes Susan Altman Olaudah Equiano 973 KAP 793.3 LON F MORRISON 811.52 HUG F WALKER 811.54 ANG F HUGHES 973 ALT B EQUIANO Helen Elaine Lee Andrea Smith W. E. B. Du Bois Lynn M. Homan And Thomas Reilly J. California Cooper F LEE F SMITH 301.451 DUB 940.54 HOM F COOPER The Wedding The Women Of Brewster Place Their Eyes Were Watching God These Same Long Bones This Far By Faith This Side Of Eternity Through The Ivory Gate Timelines Of African-American History: 500 Years Of Black Achievement Train Whistle Guitar: A Novel Tumbling Tuskegee’s Heroes Twelve Years A Slave Vintage Hughes Dorothy West Gloria Naylor Zora Neal Hurston Gwendolyn M. Parker Juan Williams Rosalyn McMillan Rita Dove Tom Cowan & Jack Maguire LP F WEST F NAYLOR F HURSTON F PARKER 200 WIL F MCMILLAN F DOV 973 COW Albert Murray Diane McKinney-Whetstone Charlie & Ann Cooper Solomon Northup Langston Hughes Walking ON Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century Watching Our Crops Come In We’ll Understand It Better By And By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers Weren’t No Good Times: Personal Accounts Of Slavery In Alabama Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? Witness: Art And Civil Rights In The Sixties Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now Randall Kenan F MUR F MCKINNEY 358.4 COO B NORTHUP 811.52 HUGHES 305.8 KEN Clifton J. Taulbert Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ed. B TAULBERT 920 WEL Ed. Horace Randall Williams 306.3 WER Martin Luther King, Jr. Teresa A. Carbone And Kellie Jones Maya Angelou 323.119 KIN 704.949 WIT 814.54 ANG In Reference (some in display, but most not): Black musical theatre : from Coontown to Dreamgirls. Woll, Allen L. Collection: NonFiction, Call #: 782.81 WOL The black biblical heritage : four thousand years of black biblical history. Johnson, John L. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 221.8 JOH International library of Negro life and history. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 301.451 INT Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 328.7 BLA African-American holidays, festivals, and celebrations : the history, customs, and symbols associated with both traditional and contemporary religious and secular events observed by Americans of African descent. Gay, Kathlyn. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 394.269 GAY Blacks in blackface : a source book on early Black musical shows. Sampson, Henry T. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 782.81 SAM Black women writers (1950-1980) : a critical evaluation. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 810 BLA C.1 Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 909 BLA Art Rust's Illustrated history of the Black athlete. Rust, Art. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 920 RUS C.2 Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 973 ENC The handy African American history answer book. Smith, Jessie Carney. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 973.04 SMI African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence. Bracks, Lean'tin L. Collection: Reference, Call #: R 973.049 BRA
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