Black History Month celebrates the achievements of Black Americans and recognizes and honors the powerful role Black Americans have played in the past, the present and our future.
Here are just some of the outstanding books we have in our NCW Libraries collection that celebrate Black History and Black Americans.
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain – print, eBook, eAudiobook
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi – print, eBook
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds (Young Adult), print, eBook, eAudiobook
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones (editor) – print
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham – print, eBook, eAudiobook
March, Book One by John Lewis (Graphic Novel) – print, eBook
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander – print, eBook, eAudiobook
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – print, eBook, eAudiobook
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates – print, eBook, eAudiobook
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon – print, eBook
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley – print
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson – print, eBook
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E Joseph – print
Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams – print, eBook, eAudiobook
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth – print, eBook
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs- print, eBook, eAudiobook
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup- print, eBook, eAudiobook
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton- print
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass- print, eBook, eAudiobook
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History,1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.- print
Separate: The Story of Plessy vs. Ferugson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg – print, eBook
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