Feb 1, 2021
Browse a selection of books by Ruby Bridges, Austin Channing Brown, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James H. Cone, Gregory C. Ellison II, Tamura Lomax, Darnell L. Moore, Cornel West and many others* in the Black History Month curated bibliography online (link below). The call numbers of these books, the names of their authors and the subject headings found in their library catalog records are all good entry points for further research.
The curated bibliography also contains links to research databases, such as the Oxford African American Studies Center; lectures, such as the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary; and other suggested reading, listening and viewing.
*Authors and editors include (among others):
- Albert J. Raboteau
- Angelique Harris
- Anthony B. Bradley
- Austin Channing Brown
- Betty Livingston Adams
- Brenda Salter McNeil
- Brian K. Blount
- Bruce D. Haynes
- Cain Hope Felder
- Carla Jones
- Cassandra Jackson
- Cecelia Barr
- Chad Williams
- Chanequa Walker-Barnes
- Charlene A. Carruthers
- Charles M. Payne
- Charlotte McSwine-Harris
- Clarice J. Martin
- Claudette Copeland
- Clayborne Carson
- Cleophus J. LaRue
- Coretta Scott King
- Cornel West
- Courtney Pace
- Dale P. Andrews
- Danjuma G. Gibson
- Darnell L. Moore
- David Walker
- Deborah Blanks
- Deborah Gray White
- Delores Carpenter
- Derrick A. Bell
- Desmond Tutu
- Dorothy Porter
- Eboni Marshall Turman
- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
- Efrem Smith
- Emerson B. Powery
- Frantz Fanon
- Frederick Douglass
- Gregory C. Ellison, II
- Harriet Jacobs
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Howard Thurman
- James Baldwin
- James H. Cone
- James Weldon Johnson
- Jarena Lee
- Jennifer T. Kaalund
- Jesmyn Ward
- Johari Jabir
- John H. McClendon
- John Lewis
- Josef Sorett
- Juan Williams
- Judith Weisenfeld
- Karen D. Crozier
- Kathryn Watterson
- Keisha N. Blain
- Kenyatta R. Gilbert
- Khristi Lauren Adams
- Kidada E. Williams
- Lisa M. Bowens
- Malcolm X
- Manning Marable
- Margaret Busby
- Margarita Simon Guillory
- Maria Thomas
- Marisa J. Fuentes
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Monica M. White
- Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
- Nyasha Junior
- Octavia E. Butler
- Phillis Wheatley
- Piper Kendrix Williams
- Quinton H. Dixie
- Resmaa Menakem
- Richard J. Douglass-Chin
- Richard S. Newman
- Rima Vesely-Flad
- Robert A. Wortham
- Shamoon Zamir
- Stephanie J. Shaw
- Stephen C. Ferguson
- Tamura Lomax
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Toni Morrison
- Vincent W Lloyd
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Wallace D. Best
- Walter Earl Fluker
- Whitney Battle-Baptiste
- Willie James Jennings
- Winnifred Brown-Glaude
- Yolanda N. Pierce
- Zora Neale Hurston
