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New Books for Black History Month

February 1, 2019 | SuzyQ

We owe the celebration of Black History Month to Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the son of slaves who went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He launched Negro History Week in 1926 in order to bring national attention to the contributions of blacks throughout American history. Woodson chose the second week of February for this recognition because it marks the birthdays of two men whose lives greatly influenced the black American population — Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The celebration evolved into Black History Month (also known as African-American History Month) - in 1976.

Frederick Douglass : America's prophet by D. H. Dilbeck
Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours by 1944- Joseph Rosenbloom
The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke by 1950- Jeffrey C. Stewart
Denmark Vesey's garden : slavery and memory in the cradle of Confederacy by Ethan J Kytle
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Jim Brown : last man standing by Dave Zirin
Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement by Janet Dewart Bell
The prison letters of Nelson Mandela by 1918-2013 Nelson Mandela
Arthur Ashe : a life by Raymond Arsenault
Tigerbelle : the Wyomia Tyus story by Wyomia Tyus
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom by David W Blight
Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry by 1972- Imani Perry
Becoming by 1964- Michelle Obama
The bone and sinew of the land : America's forgotten black pioneers & the struggle for equality by Anna-Lisa Cox
The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by 1952- Andrew Delbanco
Heavy : an American memoir by Kiese Laymon
There will be no miracles here by Casey Gerald
Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster by 1954- Stephen L. Carter