Digital Display: Black History Month
February 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month and we are celebrating here at the MacEwan Library! In addition to the events and activities planned for Black History Month across campus, the Library has compiled a list of resources to read and watch about Black history for those who would like to learn more. Check them out below!
To Read:
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White: 165 Years of African-American Life by Richard F. Selcer
Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 by Michael Lawrence Dickinson
Blacks in Canada: A History by Robin W. Winks
Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West
Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family by Lee H. Warner
Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War by Scott Christianson
It's Good to Be Black by Ruby Berkley Goodwin
Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History by Joel Christian Gill
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Charles W. Eagles
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era by Stephanie J. Shaw
To Watch:
African American/Black History Map Rap
Black American Experience: African Americans Who Left Their Stamp on History
Daughters of the New Republic: Harriet Tubman and Sarah Bradford