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“Black history is American history” – Morgan Freeman.
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Give yourself time this month to reflect on how Black and African American individuals have shaped this country. During this month, let’s spend time recognizing the contributions that Black Americans have made to our nation. Have you read anything by a Black author recently? Listened to music performed by a Black entertainer? Investigated and learned more about Black inventors, politicians, activists, artists?
This month, try to expand your horizons beyond the familiar and reach for something new. As always, we’ll be here for suggestions and resources!
Additional Resources
Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, grew from Negro History Week, which Carter G. Woodson initiated in 1925. The weeklong event was extremely popular and supported, and in 1976 Gerald Ford recognized the whole month of February as one in which the nation would honor the history of Black Americans.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History: Learn about the Origins of Black History Month Click Here.
More About African American History Month Click Here.
Black History Month Book List
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Print Text | Libby audio | Hoopla ebook | Hoopla audio
Becoming by Michelle Obama LCLC - Book | LCLC - CD Audiobook | Libby - eAudio | Libby - eBook
Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn Hoopla - eBook
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson For Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude JR. Print Text
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates LCLC - Book | LCLC - CD Audiobook | Libby - eAudio | Libby - eBook
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Print Text | Libby ebook
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward Hoopla - eAudio | LCLC - Book
Heavy by Kiese Laymon LCLC - Book
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston Hoopla - eAudio
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin print book
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart print book | Hoopla eAudio
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo print text | Libby audio | Hoopla audio
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi print book | Hoopla audio | Libby audio | Libby ebook
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins Hoopla - eAudio | Hoopla - eBook
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris Print Text | Libby ebook | Libby audio
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson print text | Libby ebook
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Print book | Hoopla ebook | Libby ebook
FOR CHILDREN
Picture books
Black is a rainbow color by Angela Joy Book
I, too, am America by Langston Hughes Book
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson Hoopla - eAudio | Hoopla - video
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed Book
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe Book
Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons Book
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews Book | Hoopla - ebook | Hoopla - video
Chapter Books
A Girl Named Misty by Kelly Starling Lyons Book
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine Book | Book | CD Audiobook
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Book
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Book | Libby- eAudiobook
Who Was Jackie Robinson? By Gail Herman Book
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen by Sherri L. Smith Book
Young, Gifted, and Black by Jamia Wilson Book
FOR TEENS AND TWEENS
Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi Hoopla - eBook | Hoopla - eAudio
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Book | eAudio | CD Audiobook
Hidden Figures (Young Readers Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly Book | Hoopla - eBook | Hoopla - eAudio
March trilogy by John Lewis Book One: Book | eBook | Book Two: Book | eBook Book Three: Book | eBook
X: A novel by Ilyasah Shabazz Book
The hate u give by Angie Thomas | Book
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas | Book
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas | Book
Solo by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess | Book
The poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo | Book
Punching the air by Ibi Zoboi | Book
Dear Martin by Nic Stone | Book
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