Black History Month titles in the SEC Library
Before heading to the SEC Library, be sure to use the links below to see if the titles are available.
February is Black History Month
The 1619 Project : a new origin story by Call Number: E441 .A15 2021
African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals by Call Number: E185 .F485 2022In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Call Number: E98.R28 M39 2021
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake by Call Number: E445.S7 M55 2021National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.
Massachusetts Book Awards Winner (Nonfiction), 2022.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022
Frederick Douglass Prize, 2022
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Call Number: E185.97.K5 A52 2001Publication Date: 2001An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.
Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own by Call Number: E184.A1 G554 2020
Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world by Call Number: QL682.C66 B48 2023
A Black Women's History of the United States by Call Number: E185.86 .B475 2020Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected by Call Number: PS3615.K67 Z46 2019Publication Date: 2019-06-18
The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America by Call Number: E185.61 .W168 2018Publication Date: 2018-03-20
A call to conscience : the landmark speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Call Number: E185.97.K5 A5 2002Publication Date: 2002Presents eleven of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speeches, with introductions written by individuals such as Rosa Parks, the Dalai Lama, and Ted Kennedy.
A fool's errand : creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump by Call Number: E185.53.W3 N383 2019Publication Date: 2019-09-24Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale of the challenges and rewards of bringing a nationally acclaimed new institution to life,
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 by Call Number: E185 .F625 2021
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom by Call Number: E449.D75 B557 2020Publication Date: 2020-01-07An acclaimed historian's definitive biography of the most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass, who was to his century what Martin Luther King, Jr. was to the 20th century.
Gospel of freedom : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from Birmingham jail and the struggle that changed a nation by Call Number: F334.B69 N446 2013Publication Date: 2014-06-19
The heavens might crack : the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Call Number: E185.97.K5 S63 2018Publication Date: 2018-03-20
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Call Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016New York Times Best Seller List.
ALA Black Caucus Award, 2017 (Nonfiction)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2017 Nonfiction
Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot by Call Number: E185.86 .K46 2021Publication Date: 2021-02-23
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America by Call Number: E441 .S654 2021Publication Date: 2021-06-01National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Call Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2011Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, 2010
Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2010
The impacts of racism and bias on Black people pursuing careers in science, engineering, and medicine : proceedings of a workshop by Call Number: TA157 .I38 2020Publication Date: 2020-12-18
The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement by Call Number: E185.61 .B7913 2013Publication Date: 2013-01-08
The legacy of slavery at Harvard : report and recommendations of the Presidential Committee by Call Number: E445.M4 L44 2022Publication Date: 2022-09-27
March by Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013
March: Book Two by Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013
Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero by Call Number: E185.97.K5 H275 2008Publication Date: 2008-01-01In this collection of essays, noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, and the meaning of his life today.
The new guys : the historic class of astronauts that broke barriers and changed the face of space travel by Call Number: TL789.85.A1 B34 2023Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Night flyer : Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people by Call Number: E444.T82 M55 2024Publication Date: 2024-06-18
A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars by Call Number: QB460.72.O48 A3 2022This memoir of the renowned astrophysicist tells the story of how he overcame his personal demons, including an impoverished childhood and life of crime as well as an addiction to crack cocaine and entrenched racism.
The seminarian : Martin Luther King, Jr. comes of age by Call Number: BV4085.C76 P37 2018
Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Call Number: E185.61 .G253 2020Publication Date: 2020-04-07
Strength to Love by Call Number: BX6452 .K5 2010Publication Date: 2010This collection of sermons by the American civil rights leader explains his convictions about the conditions and problems of contemporary society.
Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story by Call Number: F334.M79 N4535 2010Publication Date: 2010-01-01
The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Call Number: E185.97.K5 J67 2021Publication Date: 2021-10-05
Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war by Call Number: HT1096 .B75 2022Publication Date: 2022-02-08Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2021 Nonfiction
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2011Publication Date: 2011-10-04Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2011.
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010.
We refuse to forget : a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power by Call Number: E99.C9 G36 2022Publication Date: 2022-06-07
Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race by Call Number: GN27 .C38 2022Publication Date: 2022-03-22In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy.
Women of color in tech : a blueprint for inspiring and mentoring the next generation of technology innovators by Call Number: T36 .T43 2020 & ebookPublication Date: 2020-04-14
Select Library Resources
- A Call To Explore: Design, Race, and the Built Environment - Graduate School of Design
- African American Library Resources at Harvard
- African American Women - Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- African and African American Studies at Harvard: Historical Sources - University Archives
- Black America and COVID-19
- Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981 - Schlesinger Library
- Research Guide for Primary Sources on Civil Rights
- Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom - Primary Sources from Houghton Library
- The Black Student Experience at Harvard: Historical Sources - University Archives
- West Stacks Reading Room - The purpose of this guide is to present resources recommended for the new West Stacks reading room, which focuses on EDIBA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, Anti-racism) at the Widener Library.