FEATURED TITLES FOR 2025: African Americans and Labor
Read more about this year's theme for Black History Month from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
Embedded Files
Banking on Freedom:
Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal
by Shennette Garrett-Scott
Behind the Scenes, or,
Thirty Years a Slave, and Four years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckly
No Right to an Honest Living:
The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by Jacqueline Jones
Now Is the Time for Reparations!
from the Stephen Lewis Poster Collection (University Archives and Special Collections)
“Rest as Resistance:”
Black Cyberfeminism, Collective Healing and Liberation on @TheNapMinistry
by Mel Monier
Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950
by Francille Rusan Wilson
Struggles in Steel: The Story of African-American Steelworkers
by Tony Buba and R. J. Henderson
E-book titles available for online reading
The 1619 Project : A New Origin Story
edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
The Black Chicago Renaissance
edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., Marshanda A. Smith
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
by Carolyn Finney
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
by George M. Fredrickson
Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection
edited by Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan
Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
edited by Jerome C. Branche
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
by Frances Gateward and
John Jennings
Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa
by Pamela E. Brooks
Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution
by Cecil Harris
Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell
From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution
by Michael O. West
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
by Leigh Raiford
Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color
by Andrea J. Ritchie
Let Nobody Turn Us Around:
An African American Anthology
edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
by Barbara Ransby
Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
by Deva R. Woodly
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders : Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
by Cedric Johnson
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
by Peniel E. Joseph
Teaching Black : The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature
edited by Ana-Maurine Lara and Drea Brown
There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
by Philip F. Rubio
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
by Douglas J. Flowe
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program
by Richard Paul
You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
Streaming videos available for online viewing
Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
directed by Deborah Riley Draper
Check out 2024's Black History Month selections highlighting African Americans and the Arts,
and 2023's Black History Month selections focused on the theme of Black Resistance!
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