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Tallahassee, FL 32301  
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Black History Month

A list of items available in the Leon County Public Library System

He talk like a white boy: reflections on faith, family, politics, and authenticity
by Joseph C. Phillips; foreword by Tavis Smiley.

Writings
James Weldon Johnson

Powerful words: more than 200 years if extraordinary writing by African Americans
Wade Hudson; illustrated by Sean Qualls; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman

Vows: the African-American couple's guide to designing a sacred ceremony
Harriette Cole.

The ways of Black folks: a year in the life of a people
Lawrence C. Ross, Jr.

Getting away with murder: the true story of the Emmett Till case
by Chris Crowe

The best of Emerge magazine
edited by George E. Curry; illustrated by William Sandifer

How they got over: African Americans and the call of the sea
Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

The middle passage [DVD]
Narrated by Djimon Hounsou

Kwanzaa kids
Joan Holub; illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max

Stories, novels, & essays
Charles W. Chesnutt

Crafts that celebrate Black history
by Kathy Ross ; illustrated by Jenny Stow

Tell all the children our story : memories and mementos of being young and Black in America
Tonya Bolden

The reappearance of Sam Webber
Jonathon Scott Fuqua

Lorraine Hansberry audio collection [audiocassette/unabridged]
Lorraine Hansberry

Words with wings : a treasury of African-American poetry and art
selected by Belinda Rochelle

Kwanzaa
by Lola M. Schaefer

Afro-Bets book of shapes
by Margery W. Brown ; illustrated by Howard Simpson

Book of colors : meet the color family
written by Margery W. Brown ; illustrated by Howard Simpson

The New York public library African American desk reference
Includes bibliographical references and index, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Afro-Bets ABC book
by Cheryl Willis Hudson

African-American heritage [videorecording]
Exciting adventures appear at every turn as children are introduced to the vibrant sights and sounds of Africa. They'll learn about the diverse geography and cultures there as well as the history of African Americans.

Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison.

The wisdom of the elders
edited by Robert Fleming

African Americans
Shelia Payton

The African American almanac
Jay P. Pederson and Kenneth Estell, editors

Relocations of the spirit: essays
by Leon Forrest

The African Americans
edited by Charles M. Collins and David Cohen; text by Cheryl Everette, Susan Wels, and Evelyn C. White

Kids explore America's African-American heritage
Westridge Young Writers Workshop

A torchlight for America
Louis Farrakhan

Introduction to Black studies
Maulana Karenga

The souls of Black folk
W.E.B. DuBois; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad

Airing dirty laundry
by Ishmael Reed

Black legacy: America's hidden heritage
William D. Piersen

Black popular culture
a project by Michele Wallace; edited by Gina Dent

 

W.E.B. Du Bois

Writings
The Souls of Black folk
2003; with an introduction and notes by Farah Jasmine Griffin
The souls of Black folk 1996; with an introduction by Donald B. Gibson; and with notes by Monica M. Elbert
The souls of Black folk 1995; with a new introduction by Randall Kenan
The souls of Black folk 1989; introduction by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.
The souls of Black folk 1973; Reprint of the 1953 ed. New introduction by Herbert Aptheker.

James Baldwin

Booker T. Washington and the Negro's place in American life

Tommy Traveler in the world of Black history
Tom Feelings

The historical and cultural atlas of African Americans
Molefi K. Asante, Mark T. Mattson

Black Americans in defense of our nation
Paper [Washington, D.C.]: Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy/Equal Opportunity, Dept. of Defense

African-American humanism :
an anthology

edited by Norm R. Allen, Jr.

Ebony/Jet guide to Black excellence [videorecording]

The Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou

The dear one
Jacqueline Woodson

Black abolitionists
Benjamin Quarles

The omni-Americans: some alternatives to the folklore of white supremacy
Albert Murray

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Blue tights
Rita Williams-Garcia

The Negro almanac: a reference work on the African-American
compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James Williams

Afro-bets ABC book
by Cheryl Willis Hudson

Afro-bets 123 book
Cheryl Willis Hudson

International library of Afro-American life and history under the auspices of The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History

The Black American reference book edited by Mabel M. Smythe; sponsored by the Phelps-Stokes Fund.

The state of Black America
National Urban League

Great black speeches. [Sound recording]
Read by Claudia McNeil and Norman Matlock; John Graham, editor.

The voice of Black America :
major speeches by Negroes in the United States, 1797-1971

Edited, and with commentary by Philip S. Foner

The Black frontiersmen: adventures of Negroes among American Indians, 1528-1918
by J. Norman Heard

Black bourgeoisie
by E. Franklin Frazier

Three Negro classics:
Up from slavery.
The souls of black folk.
The autobiography of an ex-colored man.

With an introd. by John Hope Franklin.

The Southern mystique

The Negro of the old South: a bit of period history
by Mrs. Nicholas Ware Eppes

The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, or, Africa for the Africans
compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey; new preface by Tony Martin

Black pioneers in American history [sound recording]
Read by Eartha Kitt and Moses Gunn

A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington...who shares his personal story of the mentors who helped guide his life

Freedom in the Family: a mother-daughter memoir of the fight for civil rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stevens Due

Click here for recommended reading from the Black Caucus
of the National Council of Teachers of English


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