The items in this display were selected to try to bring awareness to the continued plight faced by the African-American community in America while at the same time, trying to showcase more African-American Women writers. Included in the display are titles such as I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, Black music by Amiri Baraka, Yellow house by Sarah M. Broom, and How long? How long? : African American women in the struggle for civil rights by Belinda Robnett.
Not only do #BlackLivesMatter but #BlackStoriesMatter as well.
~ Jon, Reference Student Assistant
Here’s a list of titles on display! Click on a title to view more details about the item.
| Title |
Author |
| A raisin in the sun* |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
| A shining thread of hope : the history of Black women in America |
Hine, Darlene Clark |
| America’s Black congressmen |
Christopher, Maurine |
| Being Black: essays |
Prince, Althea |
| Beloved* |
Morrison, Toni |
| Black Americans, a decade of occupational change |
Small, Sylvia |
| Black music |
Baraka, Amiri |
| Black out loud; an anthology of modern poems by Black Americans. |
Adoff, Arnold |
| Go tell it on the mountain* |
Baldwin, James |
| Holding fast the dream : Hawaiʻi’s African American experience (DVD) |
Jackson, Miles M.; Altieri, Lisa.; Okino, Steve.; Aranita, Aaron.; Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.; Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities |
| How long? How long? : African-American women in the struggle for civil rights |
Robnett, Belinda |
| I know why the caged bird sings* |
Angelou, Maya |
| Invisible man* |
Ellison, Ralph |
| March. Book One |
Lewis, John |
| Monster* |
Myers, Walter Dean |
| My grandmother’s hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies |
Menakem, Resmaa |
| Native Son* |
Wright, Richard |
| Selected poems |
Brooks, Gwendolyn |
| Song of Solomon |
Morrison, Toni |
| The autobiography of Malcolm X* |
Haley, Alex |
| The collected poems of Langston Hughes |
Hughes, langston |
| The color purple* |
Walker, Alice |
| The origins of African American civil rights movement, 1865-1956 |
Zhang, Aimin |
| They followed the trade winds : African Americans in Hawaiʻi |
Jackson, Miles M. |
| Things fall apart* |
Achebe, Chinua |
| Yellow house |
Broom, Sarah M. |
| Zora Neale Hurston an annotated bibliography of works and criticism |
Davis, Cynthia |
* This title is on ALA’s Banned Book list
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