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January 2022: Honoring MLK
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October 2022: Hispanic Heritage Month
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November 2022: Folklore and Fairy Tales
November 2022: World Philosophy Day
December 2022: The World Cup
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January 2021: Literary Escapes
February 2021: Contemporary Black Authors
March 2021: The Food that Cultivates Us
April 2021: Financial Literacy
May 2021: The Next Chapter
November 2021: Veterans
December 2021: Native American Hertiage
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April 2020: Libraries in Books
May 2020: Mental Health Awareness
June 2020: Reading the Second World War
June 2020: LGBTQ+ Pride
July 2020: Anti-Racism + Allyship
July 2020: Americans with Disabilities Act
August - September 2020: Back to School
September - October 2020: Hispanic Heritage Month
October 2020 Gothic Lit + Ghosts Galore
November 2020: Elections + American Politics
December 2020: In the Snow and Ice
“We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness.”
– Yvette Clarke
eBooks
Books
Media
Changing Academia Forever
by
Kitty Kelly Epstein; Bernard Stringer
ISBN: 9781975502737
Publication Date: 2020-01-31
Black Fundamentalists
by
Daniel R. Bare
ISBN: 9781479803262
Publication Date: 2021-05-11
Black on Black
by
John Cullen Gruesser
ISBN: 9780813121635
Publication Date: 2000-06-08
A Lynched Black Wall Street
by
Jerrolyn S. Eulinberg; Lee H. Butler (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781725296022
Publication Date: 2021-05-13
Wanted! A Nation!
by
Claire Bourhis-Mariotti; C. Jon Delogu (Translator); Ronald Johnson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780820362700
Publication Date: 2023-12-15
Searching for Dr. Harris
by
Margaret Humphreys
ISBN: 9781469680057
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Before Harlem
by
Ajuan Maria Mance
ISBN: 9781621902027
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Harlem Renaissance
by
Nathan Irvin Huggins; Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780195063363
Publication Date: 2007-05-02
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
by
Amy Helene Kirschke (Editor)
ISBN: 9781628460339
Publication Date: 2014-08-04
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940
by
James V. Hatch (Editor); Leo Hamalian (Editor)
ISBN: 9780814325803
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Contemporary Plays by African American Women
by
Sandra Adell (Editor); J. Nicole Brooks (Contribution by); Keli Garrett (Contribution by); L. Diamond (Contribution by); Tanya Barfield (Contribution by); S. M. Shephard-Massat (Contribution by); Katori Hall (Contribution by); Nikkole Salter (Contribution by); Lisa B. Thompson (Contribution by); Lynn Nottage (Contribution by); Christina Anderson (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780252039713
Publication Date: 2015-12-07
The Roots of African-American Drama
by
James V. Hatch (Editor); Willis Richardson (Contribution by); Zora Neale Hurston (Contribution by); Joseph S. Mitchell (Contribution by); Shirley Graham (Contribution by); George A. Towns (Contribution by); May Miller (Contribution by); Owen Vincent Dodson (Contribution by); Abram Hill (Contribution by); Leo Hamalian (Editor); George C. Wolfe (Foreword by); William Wells Brown (Contribution by); Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Contribution by); Katherine D. Chapman Tillman (Contribution by); Mary Burrill (Contribution by); Jodie Edwards (Contribution by); Susie Edwards (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780814321423
Publication Date: 1992-04-30
Visualizing Equality
by
Aston Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781469659954
Publication Date: 2020-09-14
Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African-American Literature
by
Maria Balshaw
ISBN: 9780745313399
Publication Date: 2001-02-20
Re-Membering and Surviving
by
Shirley A. James Hanshaw
ISBN: 9781611863710
Publication Date: 2020-11-01
Riding Jane Crow
by
Miriam Thaggert
ISBN: 9780252044526
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
The Souls of Black Folk
by
Jonathan Scott Holloway (Introduction by); W. E. B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9780300195828
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism
by
Tracey E. Hucks
ISBN: 9780826350756
Publication Date: 2012-05-16
George Washington Carver
by
Gary R. Kremer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780826221391
Publication Date: 2017-11-21
Examining Tuskegee
by
Susan M. Reverby
ISBN: 9780807833100
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
A Darker Wilderness
by
Erin Sharkey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781571313904
Publication Date: 2023-02-14
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
by
Beauty Bragg
ISBN: 9780739188781
Publication Date: 2014-11-12
Black Physicians Struggle for Civil Rights
by
Florence Ridlon
ISBN: 9780826333391
Publication Date: 2005-03-25
She Can Bring Us Home
by
Diane Kiesel
ISBN: 9781612345055
Publication Date: 2015-08-15
African American Theatre
by
Samuel A. Hay; Don B. Wilmeth (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780521465854
Publication Date: 1994-03-25
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance
by
Annemarie Bean (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415182355
Publication Date: 1999-06-28
Becoming Richard Pryor
by
Scott Saul
ISBN: 9780062123305
Publication Date: 2014-12-09
Cinemas of the Black Diaspora
by
Michael T. Martin (Editor); Julie Dash (Contribution by); James A. Snead (Contribution by); Thomas Cripps (Contribution by); Abid Med Hondo (Contribution by); Jose Arroyo (Contribution by); Coco Fusco (Contribution by); Nicholas Peter Humy (Contribution by); Keith Q. Warner (Contribution by); Mbye Cham (Contribution by); N. Frank Ukadike (Contribution by); Mark A. Reid (Contribution by); Claire Andrade-Watkins (Contribution by); Keyan Tomaseli (Contribution by); Francoise Pfaff (Contribution by); Ferid Boughedir (Contribution by); Manthia Diawara (Contribution by); Teshome H. Gabriel (Contribution by); Tommy L. Lott (Contribution by); Roy Armes (Contribution by); Ana M. Lopez (Contribution by); Robert Stam (Contribution by); Adam Knee (Contribution by); Zeinabu Irene Davis (Contribution by); David Nicholson (Contribution by); Clyde Taylor (Contribution by); Charles Musser (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780814325889
Publication Date: 1996-01-31
Black Hollywood
by
Kimberly . Fain
ISBN: 9781440831904
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Writing the Future of Black America
by
Daniel Grassian
ISBN: 9781570037818
Publication Date: 2008-03-30
Activist Sentiments
by
P. Gabrielle Foreman
ISBN: 9780252076640
Publication Date: 2009-08-18
Shout, Sister, Shout!
by
Gayle F. Wald
ISBN: 9780807009840
Publication Date: 2007-02-15
The Jazz Trope
by
Alfonso W. Hawkins; Alfonso W. Hawkins
ISBN: 9780810861268
Publication Date: 2008-06-13
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
by
Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates; Genevieve West
ISBN: 9780063043855
Publication Date: 2022-01-18
I Wonder As I Wander
by
Langston Hughes; Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780809015504
Publication Date: 1993-08-01
Love
by
Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781400078479
Publication Date: 2005-01-04
The Bluest Eye
by
Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780307278449
Publication Date: 2007-05-08
Toni Morrison's Beloved
by
William L. Andrews (Editor); Nellie Y. McKay (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195107975
Publication Date: 1999-01-21
Untold Glory
by
Alan Govenar
ISBN: 9780767921176
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Ella Baker
by
J. Todd Moye; John David Smith (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781442215658
Publication Date: 2013-09-12
For a Voice and the Vote
by
Lisa Anderson Todd
ISBN: 9780813147154
Publication Date: 2015-01-19
Leaving Cecil Street
by
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
ISBN: 9780060722890
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
by
Paule Marshall
ISBN: 9780394726335
Publication Date: 1984-09-12
Brown Girl, Brownstones
by
Paule Marshall; Edwidge Danticat (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781558614987
Publication Date: 2006-07-01
Freedom Rights
by
Danielle L. McGuire (Editor); John Dittmer (Editor)
ISBN: 9780813134482
Publication Date: 2011-11-26
The Black Presidency
by
Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 9780544387669
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
Between the World and Me
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Reach
by
Ben Jealous (Editor); Trabian Shorters (Editor); Russell Simmons (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781476799834
Publication Date: 2015-02-03
Race and Resistance
by
Herb Boyd (Editor)
ISBN: 9780896086524
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Stars for Freedom
by
Emilie Raymond
ISBN: 9780295994802
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
The Breakthrough
by
Gwen Ifill
ISBN: 9780767928908
Publication Date: 2009-10-27
12 Million Black Voices
by
Richard Wright; David Bradley (Introduction by); Noel Ignatiev (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781560254461
Publication Date: 2002-12-16
Shocking the conscience : a reporter's account of the civil rights movement
by
Booker, Simeon
ISBN: 9781617037894
I Am a Man!
by
Steve Estes
ISBN: 9780807855935
Publication Date: 2005-03-14
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by
Vicki L. Crawford; Jacqueline Anne Rouse; Barbara Woods
ISBN: 9780253208323
Publication Date: 1993-10-22
Black Is a Country
by
Nikhil Pal Singh
ISBN: 0674019512
Publication Date: 2005-11-30
Negro Building
by
Mabel O. Wilson
ISBN: 9780520268425
Publication Date: 2012-05-28
Historic Landmarks of Black America
by
George Cantor (Editor)
ISBN: 9780810378094
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Art for Equality
by
Jenny Woodley
ISBN: 9780813145167
Publication Date: 2014-06-17
Not Alms but Opportunity
by
Touré F. Reed
ISBN: 9780807859025
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Seizing Freedom
by
David R. Roediger
ISBN: 9781781686096
Publication Date: 2014-11-04
The Souls of Black Folk
by
W. E. B. Du Bois; Farah Jasmine Griffin (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)
ISBN: 1593081715
Publication Date: 2005-01-06
When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?
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