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Black History Month: Library Resources

A pathfinder designed to educate people about Black History Month, which celebrates famous African Americans.

Print Resources - In Library Use Only

Africana by Henry Louis Gates; Anthony Appiah
Call Number: 909 AF
Publication Date: 1999-10-27
Reference Collection
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: R 973.04 EN
Publication Date: 2009-02-02
Reference Collection
Reference Library of Black America by edited by Jessie Carney Smith, Joseph M. Palmisano
Call Number: R 973.01 RE
Publication Date: 2000
Reference Collection

Print Resources - Fiction

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Call Number: F MOR
Publication Date: 1993-12-28
**Also available as an Ebook.

Print Resources - Non Fiction

The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History
Publication Date: 2014
African Americans at War by Jonathan Sutherland
Call Number: 355 SU
Publication Date: 2003-12-05
**also available as an Ebook
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
ISBN: 9780872865327
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
African American Art by Richard Powell; Virginia Mecklenburg; Theresa J. Slowik
ISBN: 9780847838905
Publication Date: 2012-05-22
The African American Experience During World War II by Neil A. Wynn
ISBN: 9781442200166
Publication Date: 2010-06-16

Informational DVDs

African American Lives
A compelling combination of storytelling and science tracing roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
Africans in America : America's journey through slavery
Exposing the truth about American slavery through dramatic recreations, rare archival photography and first-person accounts.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman
Based on the novel of the same title by Ernest J. Gaines.
Eyes on the Prize, Vol. 1 : Awakenings
Voices of civil rights
History Channel special offering a stunning overview of one of America's greatest defining periods.