Check out some of the literature our library has to offer about African American cultural history as we celebrate African American History Month!
- Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary DB047943
- Describes Marshall’s importance to the 1960s civil rights movement, not only for his legal victory in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which outlawed school segregation in 1954, or even for his appointment as the first African American Supreme Court justice in 1967, but for his lifelong pursuit of the principle of equality before the law.
- Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues DB022042
- An account of black baseball from 1920 until 1949, when Jackie Robinson integrated the major leagues. The author, who interviewed many surviving Negro league stars, tells about their lives on and off the field and about the league’s role in black life.
- Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement DB047543
- African American congressman discusses the civil rights movement of the 1960s, its struggles, triumphs, leadership, and champions. Lewis, an advocate of nonviolence, acknowledges his devotion to Martin Luther King Jr., and credits the success of the movement to the thousands of working-class blacks who risked their lives confronting southern tyranny.
- Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans DB021512
- In this first major account of the unique experience of black soldiers in Vietnam, twenty veterans give brutally honest pictures of the war they fought and the aftermath they have endured.
- Waiting ’til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America DB064301
- Historian examines the radical political movement that flourished from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Discusses the social context that gave rise to Black Power, the movement’s demise, and its aftermath. Profiles its leaders, including Stokely Carmichael, Huey P. Newton, and Malcolm X.
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