Library Materials on the Black Experience

Available at the Library
A Sampling of Movies and Books about the Black Experience

Books

Against the wall : poor, young, Black, and male / edited by Elijah Anderson. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
305.38896073 Ag14

Becoming King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader / Troy Jackson ; introduction by Clayborne Carson. Lexington, Ky.
 University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
323.40924 K585ja

Before Brown : civil rights and white backlash in the modern South / edited by Glenn Feldman. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
323.0975 B393

The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown / Tim Hashaw.
New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007.
973.0496 H273b

The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky.New York : Viking, c2008.
973.8 B859b

The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison / edited by Ross Posnock. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
813 EL59Yp

Cambridge companion to the African American novel / edited by Maryemma Graham. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
813.009896073 C144

The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by George Hutchinson. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Reserves

Chicken soup for the African American soul : celebrating and sharing our culture one story at a time / Jack Canfield ... [et al.]. Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Health Communications, c2004.
973.0496073 C432

The Civil War and the limits of destruction / Mark E. Neely, Jr. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
973.7 N293c

The day freedom died : the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction / Charles Lane.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
973.8 L24d
 

Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature / Michael Bennett.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.
810.93552 B439D

Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history : the Black experience in the Americas / Colin A. Palmer, editor in chief. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, c2006.
Reference  973.0496073 En19 2006  6 vols.

Freedom : a photographic history of the African American struggle / text by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings ; pictures edited by Sophie Spencer-Wood.
London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2002.
973.0496073 M323F

A freedom bought with blood : African American war literature from the Civil War to World War II / by Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill 
University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
810.809 J234f

The future of nature : writing on a human ecology from Orion magazine / selected and introduced by Barry Lopez. Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2007.
304.2 F989

Giants : the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln / John Stauffer. New York : Twelve, 2008.
973.7092 St29g

Harlem crossroads : Black writers and the photograph in the twentieth century / Sara Blair. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
810.809 B575h

Harlem speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance / [compiled by] Cary D. Wintz. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, 2007.
810.809 H226

In the heart of the beat : the poetry of rap / Alexs Pate. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
782.421649 P271i

King : pilgrimage to the mountaintop / Harvard Sitkoff. New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
323.40924 K585s

A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution / David A. Nichols. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
973.921 N515m

Midnight birds : stories by contemporary Black women writers / edited and with an introd. by Mary Helen Washington. Garden City, N.Y.
Anchor Books, 1980.
813.01 M584w

Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey / Colin Grant. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
305.896073 G199g

The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 / edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
and Gene Andrew Jarrett. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2007.
973.0496073 N42

Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world / edited by Eric Foner. New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
973.7092 L638f

A people's history of poverty in America / Stephen Pimpare. New York : New Press, c2008.
362.50973 P649p

Race in the American South : from slavery to civil rights / David Brown and Clive Webb. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2007.
305.800975 B812r

Reaping a greater harvest : African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas / Debra A. Reid. College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, c2007.
630.715 R272r

Self-discovery and authority in Afro-American narrative / Valerie Smith. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.
813.009896073 SM67

A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
973.7115 B618s

The slaves' war : the Civil War in the words of former slaves / Andrew Ward. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
973.7 W21s

Understanding the riots : Los Angeles before and after the Rodney King case / by the staff of the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles Times, 1992.
979.494 UN2

Up south : civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia / Matthew J. Countryman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
974.811 C832U

 What shall we do with the Negro?" : Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America / Paul D. Escott. Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press, 2009.
973.7 Es19w

Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall. Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
810.99287 W154W