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Black History Month: Print Books

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

Print Books

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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2021.

Call number: E441 .A15 2021. Also available as an ebook.

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Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. Board by Elwood Watson, 2008.

Call number: KF299.A35 W38 2009

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A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross, 2020.

Call number: E185.86 .B475 2020

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Voting Rights under Fire : The Continuing Struggle of People of Color by Donathan L. Brown and Michael L. Clemons, 2015.

Call number: KF4893 .B76 2015

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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights ACT by Charles S. Bullock, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert, 2016

Call number: KF4891 .B85 2016

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Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood, 2015.

Call number: KF8745.M34 H394 2015

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Legacy and Legitimacy : Black Americans and the Supreme Court by Rosalee A. Clawson and Eric N.Waltenburg, 2008.

Call number: KF8748 .C425 2009

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1919, the Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back by David F. Krugler, 2015.

Call number: E185.5 .K78 2015

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Promises to Keep : African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present by Donald G. Nieman, 2020.

Call number: E185.61 .N5 2020

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From Here to Equality : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A  Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, 2020.

Call number: E185.89.R45 D37 2020

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Policing Black Bodies: How Black lives are Surveilled and how to Work for Change by Angela Hattery

Call number: HV9950 .H395 2018

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Dear Science and Other Stories: The study of black and anticolonial methodologies by McKittrick, Katherine, 2021.

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Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color by Anissa Janine Wardi, 2021.