New Resources for Black History Month: Learning More about Black History
For Black History Month, in addition to great resources showcasing historical black voices, the GSU Library also has a wide range of books about Black History. Just arrived on our shelves are these books, among others:
- Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, by Mike Marqusee
- Better Than the Best: Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007, edited by John C. Walter and Malina Iida
- Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, by Wayne Greenhaw
- Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora, by Marika Sherwood
- North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, by Sarah-Jane Mathieu
- For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics, by Bruce L. Mouser (in 1904, Taylor became the first African-American to run for President of the United States as the standard-bearer of a national political party—the National Negro Liberty Party)
- The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X, edited by Robert E. Terrill
- Jim Crow’s Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945, by R. A. Lawson
Also, for your viewing pleasure, check out these new pictorial histories:
- Harlem: A Century in Images, intro. by Thelma Golden with essays by Deborah Willis, Cheryl Finley, and Elizabeth Alexander
- Black in White America, photographs by Leonard Freed
And, in our Video section (Library South 2), check out these films:
- Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (documentary about the oldest black neighborhood in New Orleans)
- Night Catches Us (recent feature film about the aftermath of the Black Panther movement in Philadelphia)