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Highlighted TUC Library Resources in Honor of Black History

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

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, 1st edition - Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein, editors (Print book)

The African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History – Abdul Alkalimat 

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

The Black Campus Movement : Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 - Ibram X. Kendi

Black Folk Then and Now (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, and Wilson J. Moses

Black Nationalism in American History : From the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man March - Mark Newman

The Black Officer Corps : A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration Through Vietnam - Isaac Hampton II

The Black Stork : Eugenics and the Death of Defective Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 - Martin S. Pernick

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)

Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, And Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Transformed Their Families – John Blake 

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)

From Storefront to Monument : Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement - Andrea A. Burns

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

King’s Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech – Eric J. Sundquist and Mark Crispin Miller

Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine – Uché Blackstock, MD

Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Living Black History : How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future - Manning Marable

Long is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP – Kevern Verney, Lee Sartain, and Adam Fairclough

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – Antonia Hylton

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison – Geneva Cobb Moore and Andrew Billingsley

The Measure of a Man – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis – Kevin Mumford

The Power of Black Music : Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States - Samuel A. Floyd

Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers – Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman : Black History and Poetics in Performance - Gale P. Jackson

The Richard Wright Encyclopedia – Jerry W.  Ward, Jr., Robert J. Butler

Schooling the System : A History of Black Women Teachers - Funké Aladejebi

Slavery by Another Name : The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War Two - Douglas A. Blackmon

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

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower – Deborah Gray White, Merline Pitre, Mia Bay, Elsa Barkley Brown, Leslie Brown, Sharon Harley, Darlene Clark Hine, Chana Kai Lee, Jennifer L. Morgan, and Neil Irvin Painter

The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow – Donnie Williams and Wayne Greenhaw

To Make Our World Anew, Volume II : A History of African Americans Since 1880 – Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis

We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program – Richard Paul and Steven Moss

The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches – Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy

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)

Hidden Figures (DVD)

12 Years a Slave (DVD)

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 History (66 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