Highlighted TUC Library Resources in Honor of Black History
In recognition of Black History, the TUC Library has put together a list of resources for the TUC Community. It includes biographies of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, feature films including Selma and 12 Years a Slave, several streaming documentaries, a large selection of ebooks, and websites. Please read on for the list.
BOOKS AT THE TUC LIBRARY
African Americans and US Popular Culture – Kevern Verney
An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP – Shawn Leigh Alexander
Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers – Gerald R. Gems
Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle - Robert W., Jr. Widell
Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes In Their Times, 1960-1980 – William L. Van Deburg
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History – Stephanie Y. Evans
The Black Women Oral History Project - Ruth Edmonds Hill
Blacks in Osteopathic Medicine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – Darnita Anderson Hill (Print book)
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama – Peniel E. Joseph
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X – Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Print book)
Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen – Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack
Envisioning Black Colleges : A History of the United Negro College Fund - Marybeth Gasman
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy – Susan M. Reverby
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, editors (Print only)
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country - Amanda Gorman (Print book)
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope – Jon Meacham (Also in print)
Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World – Yolanda Williams Page
King: A Biography, 3rd edition- David Levering Lewis
Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine – Uché Blackstock, MD
Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – Antonia Hylton
The Measure of a Man – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers – Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia – Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Robert J. Butler
Schooling the System : A History of Black Women Teachers - Funké Aladejebi
The Souls of Black Folk – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, Arnold Rampersad
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement – Emilie Raymond
Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party – Paul Alkebulan
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program – Richard Paul and Steven Moss
MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARIES AT THE TUC LIBRARY
(streaming videos and DVDs)
I Am Not Your Negro—James Baldwin and Race (streaming)
Ken Burns: The Central Park Five (streaming)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (streaming)
Selma (DVD)
Green Book (DVD)
Miss Evers’ Boys (DVD)
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (DVD)
The Power to Heal Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (DVD)
The History of Black Music (streaming) Part 1 & Part 2 (click on which part you want to view)
Civil Warriors (streaming) CIVIL WARRIORS is a feature film about the experiences of two black families from upstate New York -- fathers and sons who enlisted in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) and fought in the American Civil War.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice (streaming)
Fighting Back – (1957-1962) (streaming) States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi
The Black Panthers - Vanguard of the Revolution (streaming)
ACADEMIC ONLINE CHANNELS
(collections of streaming videos on specific topics)
American Experience - Eyes On The Prize (14 videos)
Black Power Movement, 1966-1975 (35 videos)
Freedom Rides, U.S. South, 1961 (90 videos)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (111 videos)
Martin Luther King's March On Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963 (16 videos)
U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- (25 videos)
Voting Rights Act Passed, U.S., 1965 (11 videos)
WEBSITES
Black History Month - blackhistorymonth.gov
Black History Month - National Park Service
Black History Month : A Commemorative Observances Legal Research Guide - Library of Congress
Celebrate Black Art and Artists for Black History Month - National Gallery of Art
The King Center - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
National Museum of African American History and Culture - Smithsonian Institute
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