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Black History Month

This list includes adult non-fiction and biographical books on the history of African Americans.

Daviess County Public Library

25 items

  • BookNew York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — 973.0496 Greg
  • The Amazing Bud Powell

    Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

    Ramsey, Guthrie P.
    BookBerkeley : University of California Press ; Chicago : Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, 2013. — 781.65 Rams
  • The African American Experience

    Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories

    BookNew York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2009. — 973.0496073 Afri
  • Black Wings

    Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History

    Hardesty, Von, 1939-
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008. — 629.1309 Hard
  • Race

    A History Beyond Black and White

    Aronson, Marc
    UnknownNew York : Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2007. — T 305.800973 Aron
  • Reflections in Black

    a History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present

    Willis, Deborah, 1948-
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton, c2000. — 770.924 Will
  • Making All Black Lives Matter

    Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-first Century

    Ransby, Barbara,
    UnknownOakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] — 323.1196 Rans
  • Redemption Song

    Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties

    Marqusee, Mike,
    UnknownLondon : Verso, 2017. — 796.83 Marq
  • The March Against Fear

    the Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power

    Bausum, Ann,
    UnknownWashington, D.C. : National Geographic Partners, [2017] — T 323.1196 Baus
  • Down to the Crossroads

    Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear

    Goudsouzian, Aram
    UnknownNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — 323.1196 Goud
  • Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women

    Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South

    Roberts, Blain
    UnknownChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014] — 323.1196073 Robe
  • The Fortunes of Francis Barber

    the True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir

    Bundock, Michael
    UnknownNew Haven : Yale University Press, 2015. — B Barb