Black History Month titles in the SEC Library
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February is Black History Month
- The seminarian : Martin Luther King, Jr. comes of age byCall Number: BV4085.C76 P37 2018
- Strength to Love byCall 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.
- An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States byCall Number: E98.R28 M39 2021
- We refuse to forget : a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power byCall Number: E99.C9 G36 2022Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own byCall Number: E184.A1 G554 2020
- African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals byCall 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.
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 byCall Number: E185 .F625 2021
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration byCall Number: E185.6 .W685 2011Publication Date: 2011-10-04Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2011.
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010. - A fool's errand : creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump byCall 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,
- The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement byCall Number: E185.61 .B7913 2013Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow byCall Number: E185.61 .G253 2020Publication Date: 2020-04-07
- The burning house : Jim Crow and the making of modern America byCall Number: E185.61 .W168 2018Publication Date: 2018-03-20
- A Black Women's History of the United States byCall Number: E185.86 .B475 2020Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot byCall Number: E185.86 .K46 2021Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- A call to conscience : the landmark speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. byCall 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.
- The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr byCall 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.
- Martin Luther King, the inconvenient hero byCall 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 heavens might crack : the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. byCall Number: E185.97.K5 S63 2018Publication Date: 2018-03-20
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story byCall Number: E441 .A15 2021
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America byCall Number: E441 .S654 2021Publication Date: 2021-06-01National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021
- The legacy of slavery at Harvard : report and recommendations of the Presidential Committee byCall Number: E445.M4 L44 2022Publication Date: 2022-09-27
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake byCall 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 - Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom byCall 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.
- March byCall Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013
- March: Book Two byCall Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013
- Gospel of freedom : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from Birmingham jail and the struggle that changed a nation byCall Number: F334.B69 N446 2013Publication Date: 2014-06-19
- Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story byCall Number: F334.M79 N4535 2010Publication Date: 2010-01-01
- Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race byCall 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.
- Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war byCall Number: HT1096 .B75 2022Publication Date: 2022-02-08Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2021 Nonfiction
- The last negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever byCall Number: LD2160 .G37 2020Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected byCall Number: PS3615.K67 Z46 2019Publication Date: 2019-06-18
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race byCall Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016New York Times Best Seller List.
ALA Black Caucus Award, 2017 (Nonfiction)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 2017 Nonfiction - A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars byCall 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.
- Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world byCall Number: QL682.C66 B48 2023
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks byCall Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2011Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, 2010
Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2010 - Women of color in tech : a blueprint for inspiring and mentoring the next generation of technology innovators byCall 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.