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Black History & Black Futures Matter: Home

"Celebrating LGBTQ Pioneers during Black History Month." Presence,
www.presence.io/blog/celebrating-lgbtq-pioneers-during-black-history-month/.

Selection of Books in Our Collection

As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: FIC REY
ISBN: 9781481415903
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Obama: an Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza; Barack Obama (Foreword by)
Call Number: 973.93 SOU
ISBN: 9780316512589
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Because They Marched by Russell Freedman
Call Number: 323.11 FRE
ISBN: 9780823429219
Publication Date: 2014-08-11
The African-American Century by Henry Louis Gates; Cornel West
Call Number: 920 GAT
ISBN: 0684864142
Publication Date: 2000-11-13
Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
Call Number: 809.3 WOM
ISBN: 9781613747964
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper; Sarah Jane Coleman (Cover Design by)
Call Number: FIC DRA
ISBN: 9781442494978
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: 323.092 HOO
ISBN: 9780374313227
Publication Date: 2009-01-20
Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles by Tanya Lee Stone
Call Number: 940.54 STO
ISBN: 9780763651176
Publication Date: 2013-01-22

! Black Artists We Love!

This list of artists was compiled by NWS visual arts faculty.

Articles / Websites / Links

6 Teaching Tools for Black History Month
via Edutopic
10 Great Ted Talks to Celebrate Black History Month
via TED, ideas worth sharing
28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month
via The New York Times
African American Inventors Who Changed the World
via Business Insider
Because of Them We Can
Educating and Connecting a New Generation to Heroes Who Have Paved the Way
Black History Month Teaching Resources
via PBS
Black Inventors of the 20th and 21st Century
a video presentation
BlackPast
A 13,000 page reference center dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history
Elizabeth Alexander on African American Poetry
video via BigThink.com
Why We Need Black History Month—Especially This Year
via Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Black History Beyond Slavery
via PBS

Local History

Wellness

Other NWS Libguides to Explore

Digital Archives to Explore

Black Women’s Suffrage Movement
via Digital Public Library
Digital Harlem Everyday Life 1915-1930
African American Digital Collections
via Library of Congress
Black Arts Movement (1965-1975)
via The National Archives

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Recommended Database

African American History Online
Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years
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Selection of Books in Our Collection

Hand in Hand by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: 973.04 PIN
ISBN: 9781423142577
Publication Date: 2012-10-23
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: FIC WOO
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Becoming Belafonte by Judith E. Smith
Call Number: 782.42 SMI
ISBN: 9780292729148
Publication Date: 2014-09-15
Atlas of African-American History by James Ciment
Call Number: 973 CIM
ISBN: 9780816067138
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Call Number: FIC ALE
ISBN: 9780544107717
Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Double Victory by Cheryl Mullenbach
Call Number: 940.53 MUL
ISBN: 9781569768082
Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Selection of Books in Our Collection

African American Writers by Lynda Koolish; Cynthia Tucker (Introduction by)
Call Number: 810.9 KOO
ISBN: 1578062586
Publication Date: 2001-10-25
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Call Number: FIC YOO
ISBN: 9780553496642
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Call Number: FIC WAT
ISBN: 9781681191058
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
African American Women Scientists and Inventors by Otha Richard Sullivan; James Haskins (General Editor)
Call Number: 920 SUL
ISBN: 047138707X
Publication Date: 2001-10-30
Be Free or Die by Cate Lineberry
Call Number: 973.8 LIN
ISBN: 9781250101860
Publication Date: 2017-06-20
Black Pioneers by William Loren Katz
Call Number: 977 KAT
ISBN: 0689814100
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: FIC REY
ISBN: 9781442459502
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.92 LEE
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06