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Black History Month: Electronic Books

Here's a very selected list of titles that pertain to Black history and current events (early 2022)

Ebooks

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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2021

Call number: ebook. Also available in print. Call number: E441 .A15 2021

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain, 2021.

Call number: ebook

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The Black Cabinet : The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts, 2020.

Call number: ebook

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Dancing Revelations : Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture by Frank DeFrantz, 2006
 

Call number: ebook

 

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Help Me to Find My People : The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather A. Williams, 2012.

Call number: ebook

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Revolutionaries to Race Leaders:Black Power and the Making of African American Politics by Cedric Johnson, 2007.

Call number: ebook

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Making a Way Out of No Way : African American Women and the Second Great Migration by Lisa Krissoff Boehm, 2010.

Call number: ebook

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bell hooks' Biography in Contemporary Black Biography, 2021

Photo credit: "bell hooks" by Kevin Andre Elliott is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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Colin Powell :  Soldier and Statesman

Call number: ebook

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Sidney Poitier, Brittanica's Guide to the World's Most Influential People, 2017.

Photo credit: "Sidney Poitier" by John Matthew Smith on Wikicommons is licensed under CC BY-SA.

 

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A More Unbending Battle : The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home by Peter N. Nelson, 2009.

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The African American Experience During World War II by Neil A. Wynn, 2010.

Call number: ebook

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The Negro in the American Rebellion : His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown and John David Smith, 2003.

Call number: ebook

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Tuskegee Airman : The Biography of Charles E. McGee, Air Force fighter combat record holder, by Charlene E. McGee Smith, 1999.

Call number: ebook

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Black Business and Management History edited by Leon Prieto and Simone Phipps, 2020.

Call number: ebook

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Harriet Tubman : The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez, 2003.

Call number: ebook

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From Slave Cabins to the White House : Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell, 2021.

Call number: ebook

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Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon by Erica L. Ball, 2021.

Call number: ebook. Also available in print. Call number: HD9970.5.C672 W3525 2021

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Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia by William E. Cross, Jr., 2021.

Call number: ebook