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AFRICAN-AMERICAN

HISTORY RESOURCES

 

Web Resources    Adult Section    Juvenile Section

 

 

WEB RESOURCES

 

Instruction on how to obtain more information about African-American History,

through Jersey Clicks and the library's Information Page

 

NOTE:  You must have a valid library card for Somerville Public Library, in order to access this information

For more information about how to get a card, visit the Frequently Asked Questions on this site

 

1. Go to:  http://www.lmxac.org/somervillelib/reference.htm

2. Select Ebscohost

3. Search with phrase “ African-American History”

 

1. Go to: http://www.lmxac.org/somervillelib/reference.htm

2. Select Proquest

3. Search with phrase “ African-American History”

 

1. Go to: http://www.lmxac.org/somervillelib/reference.htm

2. Select InfoTrac

3. Search with phrase “ African-American History”

 

1. Go to: http://www.lmxac.org/somervillelib/

2. Select JerseyClicks

3. Search with phrase “ African-American History”

 

You may also visit http://www.jerseyclicks.org to find the same information

 

 

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ADULT SECTION

 

Title

 Author

 Call Number

The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Herbert George Gutman

301.42 GUT

The Black Urban Condition: A Documentary History, 1866-1971

Hollis Ralph Lynch

301.45 LYN

Harlem at War : The Black Experience in WWII

Nat Brandt

305.896 BRA

American Nightmare : The History of Jim Crow

Jerrold M Packard

305.896 PAC

Voices of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s

Henry Hampton, et al

323.1 VOI

American Patriots : The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm

Gail Lumet Buckley

355.008 BUC

The Harlem Renaissance

 

700.89 HAS

Crossing the Danger Water : Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing

Deirdre Mullane

810.8 CRO

Afro-American and the Second World War

Neil A Wynn

940.53 WYN

Post-soul Nation : the explosive, contradictory, triumphant, and tragic 1980s as experienced by African Americans

Nelson George

973.049 GEO

1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African-American History

Jeffrey C Stewart

973.049 STE

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States

Herbert Aptheker

974.0496 APT

Autobiography of a People : Three Centuries of African American History Told by those who lived it

Herb Boyd

973.0496 BOY

Black Heroes in our Nation's History; a Tribute to those Who Helped Shape America

Phillip T Drotning

973.0496 DRO

America is Me : 170 fresh questions and answers on Black American history

Kennell A Jackson

973.0496 JAC

Africans in America : America's journey through slavery

Charles Richard Johnson

973.0496 JOH

Everybody Say Freedom : Everything you need to know about African-American history

Richard Newman

973.0496 NEW

Upon these Shores : Themes in the African American experience, 1600 to the present

William R Scott

973.0496 SCO

Slave Nation : How slavery united the colonies & sparked the American Revolution

Alfred W Blumrosen

973.3 BLU

The Trouble They Seen : Black people tell the story of Reconstruction

Dorothy Sterling

973.8 STE

This was Harlem : a cultural portrait, 1900-1950

Jervis Anderson

974.71 AND

First Freed : Washington, D.C. in the emancipation era

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

975.3 FIR

The Black West

William Loren Katz

978 KAT

Hobbstown : the Forgotten Legacy of a Unique African-American Community

Cindy Williams Newsome

NJR 974.944

100 Greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia

Molefi K Asante

REF 920 ASA

The Timetables of African-American History : a chronology of the most important people and events in African-American history

Sharon Harley

REF 973 HAR

Atlas of African-American history

James Ciment

REF 973.0496 CIM

African American Lives

Henry Louis Gates, et al

G DVD 973.0496 AFR WIDE

Voices of black America historical recordings of poetry, humor & drama, 1908-1947 : Book T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and more.

Book T. Washington, et al

BKCD 810.9 VOI

Africans in America America's Journey Through Slavery

Charles Richard Johnson

BKTAPE 973.04 JOH

 

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CHILDREN / JUVENILE SECTION

 

The Blues Singers. Ten Who Rocked the World

Julius Lester

J 920 LES

Bound for America. The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World

James Haskins et al

J 382.44 HAS

Don’t Hold Me Back. My Life and Art

Winfred Rembert

J 759.13 REM

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

J F CUR

Forbidden Schoolhouse. The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students

Suzanne Jurmain

J370.92 JURMAIN

Goin’ Someplace Special

Patricia C. McKissack

E MCK

Henry’s Freedom Box

Ellen Levine

E LEV

How They Got Over. African Americans and the Call of the Sea

Eloise Greenfield

J 920 GRE

John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire

Josephine Nobisso

E NOB

A Kid’s Guide to African American History

Nancy I. Sanders

J 973.0496 SAN

Let It Shine; Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

J 323.092 PIN

Minty; A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Alan Schroeder

J B TUBMAN

Rosa

Nikki Giovanni

J B PARKS

The Story of Ruby Bridges

Robert Coles

J 370.19 COL

The Tuskegee Airmen Story

Lynn M.Homan

J F HOM

When Marian Sang

by Pam Munoz Ryan

J B ANDERSON

 

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