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In 1925, African-American historian Carter G. Woodson, trained at Harvard and considered a founder of African-American history, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History) and announced the first Negro History Week. The idea took root and by Woodson’s death in 1950, was well-established across the country. The rise of the Civil Rights Movement and of the Black Power and other African-American movements gave further grounding to the movement. In 1976, the United States’ bicentennial year, the week became a full month. Each president since 1976 has issued a proclamation African American History Month; you can read President Obama’s 2013 proclamation here. (information from Library of Congress site “African American History Month: About”).

The Georgia State University Library has many resources available on African-American history, and new resources arrive all the time. New resources in African-American history include:

Books

• Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (2013)
• Taylor Branch, King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013)
• Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (2013)
• Cheryl Mullenbach, Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (2013)
• Dea H. Boster, African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860 (2013)



• Molefi Kete Asante, The African American People: A Global History (2012)
• Benjamin Houston, The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City (2012)
• David S. Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the Slaves’ Civil War (2012)
• War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq (2012)

Reference

• Lean’tin Bracks, African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence (2012; electronic resource)

Video

• Slavery by Another Name (2012; about the Civil Rights Movement)
• King: A Filmed Record—Montgomery to Memphis (2012)
• Thurgood (2012)