Background Information
Chronology of African American HistoryCall Number: E185.H64 1991Focuses on the events and the people who have shaped the history of African Americans from the year 1619 to the present.
Creating Black Americans: African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the presentCall Number: E185.P15 2006"...a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture."
Encyclopedia of the Harlem RenaissanceCall Number: NX512.3.A35E53 2004An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places
- Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights ExperienceThis guide book profiles people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom.
Harvard Guide to African American HistoryCall Number: E185.H326 2001"...offers a compendium of information and interpretation on over 500 years of black experience in America."
General Biographies
African American LivesCall Number: E185.96.A446 2004"...provides authoritative portraits of some six hundred noteworthy African Americans representing a wide variety of fields of endeavor."
African-American Writers by Call Number: PS153.N5A344 2001 v.1 v.2Publication Date: 2000-11-01Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important African American writers.
Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adultsCall Number: JUV PN1009.A1M87x 1999
Specific People
Booker T. Washington : Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow by Call Number: E185.97.W4S667 2009- David Ruggles : a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York CityCall Number: E449.R94H63 2010African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass.
Ida, a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynchingCall Number: E185.97.W55G53 2009
My Face Is Black Is True by Call Number: E185.97.H825B47 2005ISBN: 1400040035Publication Date: 2005-09-06Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations.
Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women’s oral slave narrativesCall Number: E444.S73 2010"...three accounts, by Louisa Picquet, Mattie J. Jackson, and Sylvia Dubois, of their lives as slaves which were given orally and written down in 1861, 1866, and 1883 respectively."
W. E. B. du Bois by Call Number: E185.97.D73W164 2001ISBN: 0313296650Publication Date: 2001-05-30"...provides a complete highlighted overview of Du Bois' life, the events and personalities that influenced him, his intellectual contributions, and his activism."
