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):
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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
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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