The month of February is African American History Month! Library staff have curated a list of books for all ages to both celebrate and remember. Please place holds on our catalog by clicking on titles below, give us a call at 419-358-5016 or email psc@blufftonpubliclibrary.org if you would like us to choose a bundle for you, or schedule a library use appointment to choose one from our shelves yourself!
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Children
- Black brother, black brother / by Jewell Parker Rhodes.
- All because you matter / written by Tami Charles ; illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Bryan Collier.
- The fierce 44 [book on CD] : black Americans who shook up the world / written by the staff of The Undefeated ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- 28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world / Charles R. Smith Jr. ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
- Little leaders : bold women in Black history / Vashti Harrison.
- Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world / Cheryl Willis Hudson ; illustrations by Erin K. Robinson.
- The oldest student : how Mary Walker learned to read / written by Rita Lorraine Hubbard ; illustrated by Oge Mora.
- Starstruck : the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson / by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
- Katherine Johnson / by Ebony Joy Wilkins ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager.
- Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel / James Patterson and Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
- Becoming Muhammad Ali [book on CD] : [a novel] / [James] Patterson, [Kwame] Alexander.
- Maya Angelou / written by Lisbeth Kaiser ; illustrated by by Leire Salaberria.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : leader for civil rights / Michael A. Schuman.
- The bell rang / James E. Ransome.
- Rosa Parks / written by Lisbeth Kaiser ; illustrated by Marta Antelo.
- I am Rosa Parks / Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos.
- Boycott blues : how Rosa Parks inspired a nation / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
- My life as an ice cream sandwich / Ibi Zoboi ; illustrations by Anthony Piper.
- The youngest marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist / Cynthia Levinson ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton.
- Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
- Ida B. Wells : let the truth be told / by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Bonnie Christensen.
- Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans / by Kadir Nelson.
- Frederick Douglass : a noble life / David A. Adler.
- Mae Jemison / by Laurie Calkhoven ; illustrated by Monique Dong.
- Let the children march / by Monica Clark-Robinson ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
- Voices from the March on Washington / poems by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon.
- Freedom like sunlight : praisesongs for Black Americans / J. Patrick Lewis ; [illustrations by] John Thompson.
- t worked for me : in life and leadership / Colin Powell with Tony Koltz.
- 100 African Americans who changed American history / Chrisanne Beckner.
- Beautiful shades of brown : the art of Laura Wheeler Waring / by Nancy Churnin ; illustrated by Felicia Marshall.
- Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth / by Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by Gregory Christie.
- Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure / Dan Gutman.
- Schomburg : the man who built a library / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
- Who were the Tuskegee Airmen? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Jake Murray.
- Josephine Baker / written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Agathe Sorlet.
- The vast wonder of the world : biologist Ernest Everett Just / Mélina Mangal ; illustrated by Luisa Uribe.
- Before she was Harriet [book on CD] / by Lesa Cline-Ransome.
- Oh, freedom! : kids talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the people who made it happen / by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne ; foreword by Rosa Parks ; portraits by Joe Brooks.
Young Adult
- This is my America / Kim Johnson.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. / Jean Darby.
- X : a novel / Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon.
- Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you / Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds.
- Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the Selma Voting Rights March / by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran.
- Punching the air / written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha.
- Dear Martin / Nic Stone.
- Inventing Victoria / by Tonya Bolden.
- Midnight without a moon / Linda Williams Jackson.
- When you look like us / Pamela N. Harris.
- Twelve days in May : Freedom Ride 1961 / Larry Dane Brimner.
- All the days past, all the days to come / by Mildred D. Taylor.
- In the shadow of Liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five Black lives / Kenneth C. Davis.
Adult
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
- Mighty justice : my life in civil rights / Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe.
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom / David W. Blight.
- March. graphic novel series / written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ; [illustrated by] Nate Powell.
- Harriet [DVD] / director, Kasi Lemmons.
- John Lewis [DVD] : good trouble / director, Dawn Porter.
- She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
- And she could be next [DVD] / directors, Marjan Safinia, Grace Lee.
- Emperor [DVD] / written by Mark Amin, pat Charles ; directed by Mark Amin.
- The talk : conversations about race, love & truth / edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson.
- Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.
- I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness / Austin Channing Brown.
- A promised land / Barack Obama.
- A promised land [book on CD] / Barack Obama.
- Becoming / Michelle Obama.
- Becoming [book on CD] / Michelle Obama.
- The truths we hold : an American journey / Kamala Harris.
- Officer Clemmons : a memoir / Dr. François S. Clemmons.
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / Mikki Kendall.
- This is major [book on CD] : notes on Diana Ross, dark girls, and being dope / Shayla Lawson.
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / edited by Clayborne Carson.
- Invisible [large print] : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster / by Stephen L. Carter.
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly.
- The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead.
- The Underground Railroad [book on CD] / Colson Whitehead.
- Song yet sung / James McBride.
- Song yet sung [book on CD] / by James McBride.
- An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul Ortiz.
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; Afterword by John Lewis.
- When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir / Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele.
- 100 African-Americans who shaped American history / Chrisanne Beckner.
