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Black History Month: Books
To highlight books and resources the library provides in connection with Black History Month
The Radical King by Martin Luther King; Cornel West (Editor)
Call Number: E185.97.K5A5
ISBN: 9780807012826
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
This book includes twenty-three selections that show King's revolutionary vision, underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson
Call Number: E185.97.K5A52
ISBN: 9780446524124
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
1. Early years -- 2. Morehouse College -- 3. Crozer Seminary -- 4. Boston College -- 5. Coretta -- 6. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church -- 7. Montgomery movement begins -- 8. The voice of desperate men -- 9. Desegregation at last -- 10. The expanding struggle -- 11. Birth of a new nation -- 12. Brush with death -- 13. Pilgrimage of nonviolence -- 14. The sit-in movement etc.
I May Not Get There with You by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: E185.97.K5D97
ISBN: 9780684867762
Publication Date: 2000-01-17
"We as a people will get to the promised land": Martin and us -- "You don't need to go out saying Martin Luther King, Jr., is a saint"?: the American hero -- "I saw that dream turn into a nightmare": from color-blindness to Black compensation -- "Most Americans are unconscious racists": beyond liberalism -- "As I ponder the madness of Vietnam": the outlines of a militant pacifism -- "America must move toward a democratic socialism": a progressive social blueprint - etc.
The Dream by Drew D. Hansen
Call Number: E185.97.K5H273
ISBN: 9780060084769
Publication Date: 2003-07-01
A riveting account of the origins and legacy of "I Have a Dream" Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America's idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement, becoming a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve. The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, etc.
Art & Culture
Black Art by Richard J. Powell
Call Number: N6538.N5P64
ISBN: 9780500203620
Publication Date: 2003-02-17
Black Arts West by Daniel Widener
Call Number: NX512.3.A35W534
ISBN: 9780822346791
Publication Date: 2010-03-08
I. Cultural democracy in the racial metropolis -- 1. Hollywood scuffle : the Second World War, Los Angeles, and the politics of wartime representation -- 2. The Negro as human being? : Desegregation and the black arts imperative -- 3. Writing Watts : the rise and fall of cultural liberalism, etc.
Black Gospel by Viv Boughton
Call Number: ML3187.B76
ISBN: 9780713715408
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
The Music of Black Americans by Eileen Southern
Call Number: ML3556.S74
ISBN: 9780393952797
Publication Date: 1983-09-01
People Get Ready! by Robert Darden
Call Number: ML3187.D37
ISBN: 9780826417527
Publication Date: 2005-10-05
Soul Thieves by Baruti N. Kopano; Tamara Lizette Brown
Call Number: E185.86.S668
ISBN: 9780230108974
Publication Date: 2014-12-17
Notable Literature
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: E444.L49H87
ISBN: 9780062748201
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615.C6335
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call Number: E185.86.A28
ISBN: 9780872867383
Publication Date: 2017-07-04
Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison
Call Number: E185.96.H338 (Juv Lit)
ISBN: 9780316475112
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
Call Number: KF228.D64L43
ISBN: 9780062458360
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Call Number: R853.H8W37
ISBN: 9780385509930
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Sol White's History of Colored Baseball with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 by Sol White (Compiled); Jerry Malloy (Introduction)