Black History - Selected Non-Fiction

This list contains 37 titles

A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Claire Hartfield.

by Hartfield, Claire.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Other title: Chicago Race Riots of 1919.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 305.896/HAR.
Book A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete since 1946 / Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. ; with the assistance of Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk, and Francis Harris.

by Ashe, Arthur.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, NY : Warner Books, c1988Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/ASH.
Book A most beautiful thing : the true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team / Arshay Cooper.

by Cooper, Arshay [author.].

Edition: First Flatiron books edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 797.12/COO.
A promised land / Barack Obama.

by Obama, Barack.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Crown, [2020]Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/OBA.
Book African Americans of Martha's Vineyard : from enslavement to presidential visit / Thomas Dresser.

by Dresser, Tom.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: MV/975.9004/DRESSER .
Book Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose.

by Hoose, Phillip M, 1947- [author.].

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 796.323/HOO.
Book Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss

by Maraniss, David.

Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/OBA.
Becoming / Michelle Obama.

by Obama, Michelle, 1964-.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Crown, [2018]Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/OBA.
Book Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court / by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld

by Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- [author] | Obstfeld, Raymond, 1952- [author].

Edition: First editionMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile; Availability: No items available.
Book Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

by Coates, Ta-Nehisi.

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Online access: Cover image Availability: Items available for loan: 22 . Location(s): Call number: 305.8/COATES.
Book Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Alan Steinberg ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

by Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- | Steinberg, Alan, 1945-.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : William Morrow and Co., c1996Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/ABDUL-JABBAR .
Book Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights / Rich Wallace + Sandra Neil Wallace.

by Wallace, Rich [author.] | Wallace, Sandra Neil [author.].

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Other title: Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/DANIELS.
Book Children of the dream : our own stories of growing up Black in America / [compiled by] Laurel Holliday.

by Holliday, Laurel, 1946-.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Pocket Books, c1999Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 920.056/HOL .
Color blind : a story of racism / written by Johnathan Harris ; art by Donald Hudson and Garry Leach.

by Harris, Johnathan | Hudson, Don (Illustrator) [ill.] | Leach, Garry [ill.].

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Pre-adolescent; Publication details: Los Angeles : Zuiker Press, [2019]Other title: Colorblind.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: GRAPHIC/305.896/HAR.
Crossing the line : a fearless team of brothers and the sport that changed their lives forever / Kareem Rosser.

by Rosser, Kareem [author.].

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 796.35/ROS.
Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl.

by Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-.

Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Basic Books, 2020; �2019Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Location(s): Call number: 362.1/MET.
Every body looking / Candice Iloh.

by Iloh, Candice.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: New York : Dutton Books, [2020]Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: FIC/ILO.
Book Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly

by Lee Shetterly, Margot [author].

Edition: First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback editionMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 920/SHETT.
How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi.

by Kendi, Ibram X.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : One World, [2019]Other title: Antiracist.Availability: Not available: Checked out (1).
Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography / by Walter Dean Myers.

by Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-.

Material type: Text Text Publication details: New York : Scholastic, c1993Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/MAL .
Book Martha's Vineyard basketball : how a resort league defied notions of race and class / Bijan C. Bayne.

by Bayne, Bijan C.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 796.323/BAYNE.
Book My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies / Resmaa Menakem

by Menakem, Resmaa [author].

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Location(s): Call number: 305.896/MEN.
Paul Robeson : no one can silence me : adapted for young adults / Martin Duberman ; foreword by Jason Reynolds.

by Duberman, Martin B | Reynolds, Jason.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: New York : The New Press, 2021Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/ROB.
Race against time : the untold story of Scipio Jones and the battle to save twelve innocent men / Sandra Neil Wallace & Rich Wallace.

by Wallace, Sandra Neil | Wallace, Rich.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane, [2021]Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 976.7/WAL.
Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people / Kekla Magoon.

by Magoon, Kekla.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2021Other title: Black Panther Party's promise to the people.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 323.1196/MAG.
Book Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas / Maya Angelou.

by Angelou, Maya.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Random House, c1976Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/ANGELOU .
Book Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi.

by Kendi, Ibram X [author.].

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 305.8/KEN.
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2019Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 973/GAT.
Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line / Andrew Maraniss.

by Maraniss, Andrew | Maraniss, Andrew. Strong inside.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Pre-adolescent; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 2018; �2017Other title: True story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/WAL.
Book The autobiography of Medgar Evers : a hero's life and legacy revealed through his writings, letters, and speeches / edited and with commentaries by Myrlie Evers-Willams and Manning Marable.

by Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 | Evers-Williams, Myrlie | Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2005Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/EVERS.
The Black friend : on being a better white person / Frederick Joseph.

by Joseph, Frederick (Activist).

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2020Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 305.8/JOS.
The Dozier School for Boys : forensics, survivors, and a painful past / Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD.

by Murray, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1958-.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2020]Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 365.42/MUR.
Book The dream lives on : Martin Luther King, Jr. / by Sandra Millner

by Millner, Sandra.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : MetroBooks, c1999Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 921/KIN.
Book The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

by Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Location(s): Call number: 921/LACKS .
Things that make white people uncomfortable : adapted for young adults / Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin.

by Bennett, Michael, 1985- | Zirin, Dave.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2019Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 305.8/BEN.
Book We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.

by Nelson, Kadir [author.].

Edition: First editionMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile; Publication details: 2008Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 796.357/NELSON .
We were eight years in power : an American tragedy / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

by Coates, Ta-Nehisi.

Edition: 2018 One World trade pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : One World, 2018; �2017Other title: We were 8 years in power.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 973.932/COA.