Honor the Legacy

DC Public Library pays tribute to the achievements of African Americans through a wide range of programs including music, films, theatre, book discussions and lectures. Enjoy programs across the public library system Feb. 1-28, 2013.

Events | Online Resources | Good Reads for Youth | Good Reads for Adults | Bibliography

Events

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Online Resources

Your Library has a wealth of online resources that can help enrich your African-American history, life and culture, from Colonial times and slavery, to the Civil War, to the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement. It all can be found in Black Studies Online Research. 

	Delve into black history with more than 500 scholarly articles and more than 4,000 slave narratives in The African American Experience.
	You can read articles from four Historic Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World The Baltimore Afro-American Chicago Defender New York Amsterdam News Information dates back to the late 1800s.
	The African American Studies Center contains over 5,000 biographies, more than 7,500 articles, and hundreds of maps, documents, images, timelines, websites and charts and tables of African-American life, history and culture.
	The Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

Good Reads

For Youth

Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! By Wynton Marsalis JUV E Marsalis	We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March By Cynthia Levinson JUV 323.11 Levinson	Jazz Age Josephine By Jonah Winter JUV 92 Baker	Fire in the Streets By Kekla Magoon YA Magoon	The Silence of Our Friends By Mark Long G. N. Fiction Long

The librarians at Deanwood Library have also created a reading list for children and teens with books on the civil rights movement.

For Adults 

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen by Charles Molesworth	The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama by Elijah Wald	Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing our World by Crystal McCrary	It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell	The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch	The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion by William Gildea	Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America by David Ikard	This is the Day: The March on Washington by Leonard Freed

Want more recommendations? Check out these selected works related to Black History Month.