Nonfiction

Electronic Books:

The following nonfiction e-books can be found in EBSCO's High School E-book Collection by searching for the book's title. Others can be found in the EBSCO E-book Collection by typing in keywords such as African American Experience, slavery, civil rights movement racial profiling, and other keywords listed under the Keyword Development Page of this pathfinder.

Use the link provided above to access EBSCO's E-book Collection or visit the Calhoun County High School website, click on Library on the left side of the screen, and then click on Links from the Saints Media Center page. The link for the EBSCO's E-book Collection will take you directly into the collection if accessing while on campus. To access from home, users will first need to visit the Saints Media Center to get the user name and password information that will grant access off campus.

African American Experience Series

The African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency is a series which provides an introduction to the key events, issues and people associated with African American history.

The author looks at the Holocaust through the lens of the American experience, drawing connections with the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and the women's movement.

The author examines what life would be like living as a Jew in Nazi Germany by looking at anti-Semitism, the rise Hitler, Nazi party ideology, and the persecution of Jews and other groups.

The author chronicles the experiences of Polish experiences and bravery of Holocaust survivors and their rescuers.

The authors are a father who writes his memoir in 1941 and his son who writes in 1980 to fill in gaps of the story while providing historical research and context.

Print Books:

The following nonfiction books can be found in the library online catalog by searching by title or by browsing the shelves in the nonfiction and reference call number areas of 323, 781, 920, 937, and 973-974. Others can be found searching by typing in keywords such as Holocaust, genocide, Nazi Germany, concentration camps, and other keywords listed under the Keyword Development Page of this pathfinder.

This book provides a concise overview of the institution of slavery in America from the initial transport of slaves to the colonies through the Civil Rights African movement of the twentieth century and analyzes the effects of slavery upon the economic, political, and cultural face of the nation.

Nonfiction Call Number 973 BYE

This book discusses the opposing viewpoints on a variety of subjects involved in the civil rights movement in the United States.

Nonfiction Call Number 323 CIV

This book tells the stories of sixteen African-Americans, proud of their heritage and culture, in which they tell what it was like to grow up in a nation governed by racial discrimination; and includes a selected Civil Rights chronology.

Nonfiction Call Number 920 HOL

This book focuses on major U.S. civil rights events occurring between 1954 (Brown vs. the Board of Ed.) and 1968 (King assassination), including the 1956 bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 Birmingham demonstration.

Nonfiction Call Number 973 BYE

This book discusses how Mississippi civil rights groups banded together in 1964 to fight Jim Crow laws in a state where only 6.4 percent of eligible black voters were registered.

Nonfiction Call Number 323.11 RUB

This books presents a short study of the Renaissance Era in Harlem during the early twentieth century when African-American literature, art, and music crossed racial barriers and were accepted by white Americans.

Nonfiction Call Number 974.7 KOO

March Series

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.

Graphic Novel Call Number 323.11 Lew

This book details one of the deadliest racial confrontations in the 20th century―in East St. Louis in the summer of 1917―which paved the way for the civil rights movement.

Nonfiction Call Number 977.3 BAR

This book traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music.

Nonfiction Call Number 781.64 RAM

This book tells the experiences of the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans.

Nonfiction Call Number 323.11 LOW

This book explores the most active years of the Underground Railroad through accounts of slaves who followed the route to freedom and others who were involved in, or have studied, the abolitionist movement.

Nonfiction Call Number 937.7 UND

This book provides a history of African American visual arts and artists from the days of slavery to the present.

Nonfiction Call Number 704.03 BOL

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