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2009 Black History Month Display

Black History Month

The following selections relate to the celebration of Black History Month by showcasing either award winning African American authors/illustrators or materials about African American history and culture.  On display in locked glass case.  All available in either the General Colletion or the Children's Books Collection.
Please inquire at the Circulation Desk if you would like to view or check-out any of these books

Children's Books

  • November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
  • Call number: PZ7 .D78325 No 2007
  • 2008 Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor Book

  • Twelve rounds to glory: The story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr. and illustrated by Bryan Collier

  • Freedom Ship by Doreen Rappaport and illustrated by Curtis James
    • Call number: PZ7 .R18135 Fr 2006

  • Frederick Douglas by Sharman Apt Russell; senior consulting editor Nathan Irvin Huggins; introductory essay on achievement by Coretta Scott King
    • Call number: E449 .D75 R87 1988

  • Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times by Susan Altman; consultants Tony Martin and Lynn Hemphill
    • Call number: E185.96 .A56 1989

  • Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn
    • Call number: E185.96 .B58 2003

  • Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement by Ann Bausum; forwards by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
    • Call number: E185.96 .B355 2006

  • Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon

  • Let it shine: Three favorite spirituals by Ashley Bryan

  • Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel; illustrated by Benny Andrews
    • Call number: PS3515 .U274 A6 2006

General Collection

  • African American culture and heritage in higher education research and practice edited by Kassie Freeman
    • Call number: LC2781 .A38 1998

  • Schooling for the new slavery: Black industrial education, 1868-1915 by Donald Spivey
    • Call number: LC2780.5 .S67 2007

  • Color-blind: seeing beyond race in a race-obsessed world by Ellis Cose
    • Call number: E185.615 .C68 1997

  • The price they paid: Desegregation in an African American community by Vivian Gunn Morris and Curtis L. Morris; forward by Asa G. Hilliard, III.
    • Call number: LC2803 .T85 M67 2002

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