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Featured Books: February 2021: Black History Month

This rotating "book display" showcases books, eBooks, and audiobooks on new and trending topics relevant to the ERAU Prescott community.

Black History Month 2021

Learn

This Is How February Became Black History Month
Article by Julia Zorthian, 29 January 2016, Time magazine
Talking About Race
Resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
African American History Month (.gov) Website
Links to history, programming, resources, and events throughout the month.

Engage

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
"The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans."

Black Voices in Nonfiction and Fiction: Select Books and eBooks

Before Jackie Robinson : The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers

eBook Central (ERAU)

The Bluest Eye

Available through YLN

Burn This Book

Print available through YLN

Chasing Space

Available through YLN

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

eBook Central (ERAU)

The Fire Next Time

Hazy Library Print Collection and available through YLN - print and electronic

Hidden Figures

Print and eBooks available through YLN

How to Be an Antiracist

Print and eBook available (EBSCO)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Print and eBooks available

Invisible Man

Print and eBooks available

Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

eBook Central (ERAU)

The New Jim Crow

Print and eBooks available through YLN

Sister Outsider

Available through YLN

Such a Fun Age

Available in print, eBook, or audio through YLN

The Warmth of Other Suns: the epic story of America's great migration

Print and audiobooks available

Women, Race and Class

Available through YLN

More Voices to Read or Watch

Black Voices Collection - Libby (eBooks and audibooks)
Follow this link for instructions on how to set up your free account through Yavapai Library Network.
44 of the Best Books by Black Authors You Should Read in Your Lifetime
By McKenzie Jean-Philippe, 4 June 2020, Oprah Magazine
Nonfiction Books by African-American Authors
Good Reads book list, includes links out to curated lists from 2017-2021.
Gale Diversity Studies Collection
Provided through Hazy Library
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality
Database of primary sources through history and contemporary times.
Films on Demand: Black Lives Matter Collection
Provided through Hazy Library