Black History Month Resources

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Revision as of 02:35, 25 January 2008

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. J305.567 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

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

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

Field, Ron. African Peoples of the Americas: from Slavery to Civil Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 970.0049 FIE

Kallen, Stuart. Life on the Underground Railroad. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000. 973.7 KAL

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

Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: the Black Press abnd Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. 305.48 RHO

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

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