Black History Month Resources
From Rsgc Library
The following is a list of items related to the theme of African American/Canadian history available in the library. A list of web links on African American/Canadian history appears at the bottom.
Library materials relating to African American/Canadian history can be shelved in different areas of the library based on the primary emphasis of the contents. Some of the major categories include:
- 305: Social groups
- 320: Political science
- 323: Civil and Political Rights
- 370: Education
- 916: Africa
- 921: Biography
- 960: History of Africa
- 971: History of Canada
- 973: History of the United States
This list focuses on the North American experience. The library has a collection of books about African politics, history, and culture that is not listed here.
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Junior Information Books
Carson, Mary Kay. The Underground Railroad for Kids: from Slavery to Freedom. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005. J 973.7 CAR
Carter, Velma and Levero (Lee) Carter. The Black Canadians: Their History and Contributions. Edmonton: Reidmore, 1993. J 971 CAR
Cooper, John. Seasons of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Toronto: Tundra, 2005. J 323.1196 COO
Equiano, Olaudah. The Kidnapped Prince: the life of Olaudah Equiano. New York: Yearling, 1995. J 305.567 CAM
Ferris, Jeri. Go Free or Die: A Story about Harriet Tubman. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books. 1988. J 305.5 FER
Gorrell, Gena. The Story of the Underground Railroad. North Star to Freedom. Toronto: Stodddart, 1996. J 973.71 GOR
Granfield, Linda. Amazing Grace: the Story of the Hymn. Toronto: Tundra, 1997. J 973.71 GRA
Greenwood, Barbara. The Last Safe House: a Story of the Underground Railroad. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1998. J 973.71 GRE
Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1996. J 973.7 HAM
Livesey, Robert and A. G. Smith. Black Heritage (Discovering Canada). Markham: FItzhenry & Whiteside, 2006. J 971.0049 LIV
Mara, Wil. Martin Luther King Jr. New York: Children's Press, 2002. J 323.092 MAR
Pastan, Amy. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Photographic Life. London: DK Publishing, 2004. J 323.092 PAS
Sadlier, Rosemary. The Kids Book of Black Canadian History. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2003. J 305.896 SAD
Sadlier, Rosemary. Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997. J 305.5 SAD
Shadd, Adrienne, Cooper, Afua, and Karolyn Smardz Frost. The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2002. J 971.3541 SHA
Picture Books
Coles, Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges. New York: Scholastic, 1995. PB 370.19 BRI
Edwards, Pamela Duncan. The Bus Ride that Changed History: the Story of Rosa Parks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. PB 323.092 EDW
Feelings, Tom. The Middle Passage. New York: Dial Books, 1995. PB 759. 13 FEE
Haskins, James and Kathleen Benson. African Beginnings. New York: William Mororw, 1998. PB 960 HAS
Knight, Margie Burns and Mark Melnicove. Africa is not a Country. Brookfield: Millbrook Press, 2000. PB 916 KNI
Rappaport, Doreen. Freedom River. New York: Hyperion, 2000. PB 973.7 RAP
Raven, Margot Theis. Night Boat to Freedom. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.
Ringgold, Faith. If a Bus Could Talk: the Story of Rosa Parks. New York: Aladdin, 2003. PB 323.092 PAR RIN
Comics and Graphic Novels
Anderson, Ho Che. King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2005. 921 AND
Helfer, Andrew and Randy Burke. Malcom X: A Graphic Biography. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. 320.54 HEL
Senior Information Books
Brown, Ricard D. and Stephen G. Rabe (eds.). Slavery in America. Toronto: D.C. Heath, 1976. 301.44 SLA
Carson, Clayborne. (ed.) The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 1998. 323.092 KIN
Clairmont, Donald H. and Dennis William Magill. Africville: the Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999. 971.6 CLA
Coddon, Karin. (ed.) Runaway Slaves. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven, 2004. 973.7 RUN
Collison, Gary. Shadrach Minkins: from Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 973.7 COL
Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angelique: the Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006. 971.4 COO
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. 921 DOU
Field, Ron. African Peoples of the Americas: from Slavery to Civil Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 970.0049 FIE
Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Penguin Lives) New York: Viking, 2002. 323.092 KIN FRA
Hill, Daniel G. The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Toronto: Stoddart, 1981. 971 HIL
Hurmence, Belinda. Slavery Time: When I was Chillun. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1997.
Kallen, Stuart. Life on the Underground Railroad. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000. 973.7 KAL
Gilbert, Olive. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Mineola: Dover, 1997. 305.5 TRU GIL
Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: Penguin, 1993. 973 LEV
Liston, Robert. Slavery in America: the Heritage of Slavery. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. 301.45 LIS
Meltzer, Milton. There Comes a Time: the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Random House, 2001. 973 MEL
Owens, Leslie Howard. This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 301.44 OWE
Pachai, Bridglal. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: the Survival of Nova Scotia's Blacks, Volume II: 1800-1989. Halifax: The Black Educators Association, 1990. 971.6 PAC
Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: Harper Trophy, 1996. 921 TUB
Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: the Black Press abnd Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. 305.48 RHO
Roper, Moses. Narrative of My Escape from Slavery. Mineola: Dover, 2003. 305.5 ROP
Schnieder, Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. An Eyewitness Story of Slavery in America from Colonial Times to the Civil War. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001. 973.0496 SCH
Slavery: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1992. 973.0496 SLA
Tait, Terence D. Black and White in North America: Selected Resources. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 973 BLA
Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada: A History. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 971 WIN
World Book. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Biographical Connections) Chicago: World Book, 2007. 323.092 SCH
Multi-Media
Canada: a People's History. Volume 5 Disc 1: The Great Enterprise: 1850-1867. (includes special documentary edition with extra features). DVD DVD 971 CAN
Era of Segregation: a Personal Perspective. VHS (30 min.) MLC 323 ERA
Historica Heritage Minutes (minutes on Jackie Robinson, the Springhill mining disaster, the Underground Railroad). VHS VC 971 HIS
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail. (American Documents Series). VHS (25 min.) MLC 323.092 MAR
Race to Freedom: the Underground Railroad. VHS (100 min.) MLC 973.7 RAC
Then and Now (Canada in View Series). VHS (24 min.) MLC 971 THE
Web Links
African Heritage (from the Halifax Public Library)
Africans in America (from PBS)
Black History Month (Heritage Canada)
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education (from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
Voices from the Days of Slavery (Library of Congress American Memory Project)
Junior Fiction
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1995. J F CUR
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. New York: Delacorte, 1999. J F CUR
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. Toronto: Scholastic, 2007. J F CUR
Fitzhugh, Louise. Nobody's Family is Going to Change. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2003. J F FIT
Senior Fiction
Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. New York: Dell, 1953. F BAL
Clarke, Austin. The Question. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1999. F CLA
Clarke, Austin. Storm of Fortune. Toronto McClelland and Stewart, 1998. F CLA
Hill, Lawrence. Any Known Blood. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1997. F HIL
Hill, Lawrence. The Book of Negroes. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2007. F HIL
