Black History Month Guide

Black History Month

February 2008

A Hilton M. Briggs Library Resource Guide

Background Excerpt

The History and Origins of Black History Month

"Originally established as Negro History Week in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a noted African-American author and scholar, this event evolved into the establishment in 1976 of February as 'Black History Month'. This commemoration has increasingly been referred to as "African-American History Month," although both names are currently in use.

Since 1926, The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) has established the national theme for the month-long celebration of African American History Month. The National Theme for the celebration of Black History Month in the year 2008 is Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism.

Source

~U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs. African American History Month. Accessed February 6, 2007 online at: http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html .

Selected Reference Sources - Located in the Reference Area on the Main Level

Call Number	Title / Author
REF E185 .A2527 2001	African American Culture and History: A Student's Guide.
REF PS338.N4 A69 2004	African American dramatists : an A to Z guide / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.
REF PS153.N5 A344 1991	African American writers.
REF N6538 .N5C42	Afro-American artists; a bio-bibliographical directory.
REF PS153.M56 P42 1992	American ethnic literatures : Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers and their backgrounds : an annotated bibliography.
REF E184.A1 S575 1998	Atlas of American Diversity.
REF E185.86 .B542 2005	Black women in America / Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief.
REF E185.86 .B542 1993	Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia.
REF E184.A1 E58 1994	Encyclopedia of multiculturalism.
REF E185.6 .E54 2006	Encyclopedia of the great Black migration / edited by Steven A. Reich.
REF LB2338 .F5643	Financial aid for African Americans.
REF E184.A1 G14 2000	Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America.
REF PS153.N5 C45	Index to Black poetry.
REF GV583 .A75 1988	A hard road to glory : a history of the African-American athlete.
REF PS153.N5 S5	Living Black American authors: a biographical directory.
REF E184.A1 G874 1999	Multicultural resources on the Internet.
REF LC1099.3 .P46 1994	The peoples multicultural almanac : America from the 1400s to present.
REF PN1991.8.A35 S36 2005	Swingin' on the ether waves : a chronological history of African Americans in radio and television programming, 1925-1955 / Henry T. Sampson.

Books - Located on the Upper Level / Government Documents - Lower Level

Government documents and books are both available for checkout.

Call Number	Title / Author
Govt. Document LC 1.2:OD 9	The African American odyssey.
Book E185.925 .A45 2003	African American women confront the West : 1600-2000 / edited by Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore.
BOOK E185.61 .B7916 2006	At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch.
Book F349.B5 M37 2000	Beaches, blood, and ballots : a black doctor's civil rights struggle / Gilbert R. Mason, with James Patterson Smith.
Book S521.5.A2 F53 2006	Black farmers in America / photographs by John Francis Ficara ; essay by Juan Williams.
Book E185.97.M79 G74 1999	Before his time : the untold story of Harry T. Moore, America's first civil rights martyr / Ben Green.
Book BR563.N4B38 2006	The Black church in America : African American Christian spirituality / Michael Battle.
Book HD8081.A65 H66 1999	Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle / Michael Keith Honey.
Book HQ536 .L335 2000	Black working wives : pioneers of the American family revolution / Bart Landry.
Book KF4155 .B7583 2005	Brown v. Board of Education : its impact on public education, 1954-2004 / introduction by Juan Williams ; edited by Dara N. Byrne.
Book E185.615 .C587 2006	The Civil Rights movement in American memory / edited by Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford.
Book N6538.N5 F27 2005	Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists / Lisa E. Farrington.
Govt. Document CR 1.2:AF 8/V.1-2	The crisis of the young African American male in the inner cities : a consultation of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, April 15-16, 1999, Washington, D.C.
Book F376 .H66 2000	Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir / Peter Jan Honigsberg.
Book ML200 .P47 2004	Dvořák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America’s music and its African American Roots / Maurice Peress.
Book E185.97.B214 R36 2003	Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision / Barbara Ransby.
Book E185.61 .A69 2006	Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault.
Book E185.61 .G899 2005	Groundwork : local black freedom movements in America / edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard ; with a foreword by Charles Payne.
Book PS153.N5 H38 1999	The Harlem renaissance : the one and the many / Mark Helbling.
Book E444.T82 C57 2004	Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom / Catherine Clinton.
Govt. Document HE 20.3202:H 75	Heart-healthy home cooking African American style / National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Office of Research on Minority Health.
Book E169.1 .L527 2004	Hip, the history / John Leland.
Govt. Document C 60.2:H 62	Historically black colleges and universities [electronic resource] : an assessment of networking and connectivity / Prepared for U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration Technology Opportunities Program, Prepared by Henry Ponder, Mildred Freeman and Stephanie Myers.AVAILBLE ONLINE AT: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS10491
Book PN2270.A35 H55 2003	A history of African American theatre / Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch.
Book GV885.73.W18 K87 2004	Hot potato : how Washington and New York gave birth to Black basketball and changed America’s game forever / Bob Kuska.
Book E185.61 .N879 2005	The house I live in : race in the American century / Robert J. Norrell.
Book E185.96 .H86 2006	The human tradition in the civil rights movement / edited by Susan M. Glisson.
Book E185.61 .E76 2005	I am a man! : race, manhood, and the civil rights movement / Steve Estes.
Book E185.86 .B635 2000	"I will wear no chain!" : a social history of African-American males / Christopher B. Booker.
Govt. Document HE 20.3302:H 34	Improving your health : tips for African American men and women.
Book PS374.D4 M85 1999	Multicultural detective fiction : murder from the "other" side / edited by Adrienne Johnson Gosselin.
Book PS374.S58 R87 1999	Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.
Book U52 .O5 2004	On the trail of the buffalo soldier II : new and revised biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled and edited by Irene Schubert, Frank N. Schubert.
Book ML3477 .E2 2004	One nation under a groove : Motown and American culture / Gerald Early.
Book PS591.N4 O97 2006	The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry / edited by Arnold Rampersad ; associate editor, Hilary Herbold.
Book E450 .P27 2004	Passages to freedom : the Underground Railroad in history and memory / edited by David W. Blight.
Book E185.97.K5 S866 2004	Ring out freedom! : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement / Fredrik Sunnemark.
Govt. Document ED 1.102:2004001786	Status and trends in the education of Blacks [electronic resource] / Kathryn Hoffman, Charmaine Llagas ; Thomas D. Snyder, project officer. AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS38554
Book ML3508 .A53 2007	This is our music : free jazz, the Sixties, and American culture / Iain Anderson.
Book E540.N3 C58 2006	Uncommon valor : a story of race, patriotism, and glory in the final battles of the Civil War / Melvin Claxton and Mark Puls.
Book PN2286 .M5	Voices of the Black theatre / by Loften Mitchell.
Book E185.615.J68 2006	Waiting 'til the midnight hour : a narrative history of Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph.

Internet Resources

Web Site Title	Web Address
African-American History Month - The Whitehouse	http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070205-5.html
The African-American Mosaic - Library of Congress	http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
African-American History and Culture - The Smithsonian	http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
Africans in America	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
The Amistad Research Center	http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History	http://www.asalh.org/
Black History Hotlist	http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Black History Month Origins from the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History	http://www.asalh.org/blackhistorymonthorigins.html
Black History Month - Biography.Com	http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/
Black History Month - Infoplease.com	http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
Black History Month in the United Kingdom	http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/
Black Voices - AOL	http://blackvoices.aol.com/main
BlackPast.org: An Online Reference Guide to African American History	http://BlackPast.org
Celebrating Black History Month - The Gale Group	http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm
CNN - Black History Month	http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/index.html
The History Channel - Black History Month	http://www.historychannel.com/minisites/blackhistory/
The Internet African American History Challenge	http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
National Civil Rights Museum	http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
Road to Equity (CNN Special)	http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/road.to.equality/
Voices from the Gaps - Women Artists and Writers of Color	http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

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Phone Number:	(202)865-0053
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