Truxal Library Exhibit: Black History Month 2025, Black Joy: An Agent of Change
Selection of Books
Dear Black Girls –by Call Number: E185.86 .W55476 2024ISBN: 9781250290045Publication Date: 2024-02-06
This Is the Honey –by Call Number: PS591 .B53 T55 2024ISBN: 9780316417525Publication Date: 2024-01-30
Black on Black –by Call Number: E185.615 .B54145 2023ISBN: 9781335449382Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts –by Call Number: TX715.2 .S68 W485 2024ISBN: 9780593236512Publication Date: 2024-01-23
I Finally Bought Some Jordans –by Call Number: E185.97 .A69 A3 2024ISBN: 9780063140417Publication Date: 2024-03-12
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism –by Call Number: N6538 .B53 H37 2024ISBN: 9781588397737Publication Date: 2024-02-27
Radical Reparations –by Call Number: E185.89 .R45 H86 2024ISBN: 9780063004726Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Medgar and Myrlie –by Call Number: F349 .J13 R45 2024ISBN: 9780063068797Publication Date: 2024-02-06
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love –by Call Number: HN59.2 .T484 2021ISBN: 9780593314692Publication Date: 2021-05-11
Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366) –by Call Number: PS153 .B53 B53 2023ISBN: 9781598537345Publication Date: 2023-11-14
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness –by Call Number: PS3612 .E98 T69 2022ISBN: 9781524732585Publication Date: 2022-12-06
1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever –by Call Number: GV863 .A1 M28 2014ISBN: 9780306823329Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Achieving the American dream: The Life of the Honorable Aris T. Allen –by Call Number: R695 .M38 1990Publication Date: 1990
African Founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals –by Call Number: E185 .F485 2022ISBN: 9781982145095Publication Date: 2022-05-31
The Age of Phillis –by Call Number: PS3560 .E365 A74 2020ISBN: 9780819579492Publication Date: 2020-03-03
And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK –by Call Number: E185.86 .G3734 2015ISBN: 9780062427007Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Arthur Ashe : a life –by Call Number: GV994 .A7 A77 2018ISBN: 9781439189047Publication Date: 2018-08-21
Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: the power of the ballot –by Call Number: F189 .B19 N445 2019ISBN: 9781467139939Publication Date: 2019-01-21
The Big Payback –by Call Number: ML3918 .R37 C52 2010ISBN: 9780451229298Publication Date: 2010-12-07
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life –by Call Number: PS153 .B53 F74 2017ISBN: 9780813940311Publication Date: 2017-09-12
The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt –by Call Number: E807 .W36 2020ISBN: 9780802129109Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Black Country Music –by Call Number: ML3524 .R69 2022ISBN: 9781477326503Publication Date: 2022-10-01
Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires –by Call Number: HC102.5 .A2 W55 2018ISBN: 9780062437594Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history –by Call Number: TL539 .H285 2008ISBN: 9780061261381Publication Date: 2008-01-22
Brothers in Valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor –by Call Number: E185.63 .J44 2019ISBN: 9781493031740Publication Date: 2018-10-26
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century –by Call Number: NX460.5 .H57 C85 2023ISBN: 9781941366547Publication Date: 2023-06-27
Dream a World Anew : the African American experience and the shaping of America –by Call Number: E185 .D66 2016ISBN: 9781588345684Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Educated for Freedom: the incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew up to Change a Nation –by Call Number: E449 .D835 2020ISBN: 9781479847471Publication Date: 2020-01-14
First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Public High School –by Call Number: LD7501 .W3 S84 2013ISBN: 9781613740095Publication Date: 2013-08-01
The first twenty-five : an oral history of the desegregation of Little Rock's public junior high schools –by Call Number: LC214.23 .L56 F56 2017ISBN: 9781682260470Publication Date: 2018-02-28
Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city –by Call Number: HV6483 .B35 M66 2020ISBN: 9780525512363Publication Date: 2020-06-23
A Fool's errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump –by Call Number: E185.53 .W3 N383 2019ISBN: 9781588346681Publication Date: 2019-09-24
To Repel Ghosts –by Call Number: PS3575 .O798 T6 2001ISBN: 9781581950335Publication Date: 2001-06-01
The forgotten first : Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the breaking of the NFL color barrier –by Call Number: GV939 .A1 J63 2021ISBN: 9781538705483Publication Date: 2021-09-21
From Totems to Hip-Hop –by Call Number: PS613 .F76 2003ISBN: 9781560255000Publication Date: 2002-12-30
Fugitive pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching –by Call Number: LC2741 .G48 2021ISBN: 9780674983687Publication Date: 2021-04-13
George Washington Carver : a life –by Call Number: S417 .C3 V45 2015ISBN: 9780807160749Publication Date: 2015-09-14
A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools –by Call Number: LC212.52 .D48 2018ISBN: 9781541697331Publication Date: 2018-05-15
Highland Beach on the Chesapeake Bay : Maryland's first African American incorporated town –by Call Number: F189 .H493 N45 2008ISBN: 9781578645268Publication Date: 2008-12-01
Hip-Hop Revolution –by Call Number: ML3918 .R37 O33 2007ISBN: 9780700615476Publication Date: 2007-11-19
Ida: a Sword among Lions –by Call Number: E185.97 .W55 G53 2008ISBN: 9780060519216Publication Date: 2008-03-11
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in HarlemCall Number: TR820.5 .P27545 2017ISBN: 9783958291096Publication Date: 2016-06-28
Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray –by Call Number: E185.97 .M95 R67 2017ISBN: 9780190656454Publication Date: 2017-05-01
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever –by Call Number: LD2160 .G37 2020ISBN: 9781328879974Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Lorraine Hansberry: the Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun –by Call Number: PS3515 .A515 Z874 2022ISBN: 9781250205537Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Madam C.J. Walker: The making of an American icon –by Call Number: HD9970.5 .C672 W3525 2021ISBN: 9781442260382Publication Date: 2021-01-29
Meals, Music, and Muses –by Call Number: TX715.2 .A47 S63 2020ISBN: 9781250098092Publication Date: 2020-02-25
The meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own –by Call Number: E909 .O24 M43 2017ISBN: 9781250114969Publication Date: 2017-01-10
A most beautiful thing: The true story of America's first all-black high school rowing team –by Call Number: GV790.92 .C67 A3 2020ISBN: 9781250754769Publication Date: 2020-06-30
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-slave Reparations –by Call Number: E185.97 .H825 B47 2006ISBN: 9780307277053Publication Date: 2006-10-10
My Life, My Love, My Legacy –by Call Number: E185.97 .K47 A3 2017ISBN: 9781627795982Publication Date: 2017-01-17
The New Negro: The life of Alain Locke –by Call Number: E185.97 .L79 S83 2017ISBN: 9780195089578Publication Date: 2018-02-01
No coincidences: Reflections of the first black female graduate of the United States Naval Academy –by Call Number: V415 .M1 M56 2018ISBN: 9780692182499Publication Date: 2018-08-31
Olympic pride, American prejudice: The untold story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics –by Call Number: GV722 1936 .D73 2020ISBN: 9781501162152Publication Date: 2020-02-04
The Other Wes Moore: One name, two fates –by Call Number: F189 .B153 M66 2011ISBN: 9780385528191Publication Date: 2010-04-27
Our team : the epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball –by Call Number: GV875 .C7 E77 2021ISBN: 9781250313799Publication Date: 2021-03-30
Proud: My fight for an unlikely American dream –by Call Number: GV1144.2 .M84 A3 2018ISBN: 9780316518963Publication Date: 2018-07-24
Richard Potter: America's First Black Celebrity –by Call Number: GV1545 .P65 H63 2018ISBN: 9780813941042Publication Date: 2018-02-13
Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry –by Call Number: PS3515 .A515 Z46 2021ISBN: 9781496829634Publication Date: 2020-12-28
Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America –by Call Number: KF8745 .M34 H394 2015ISBN: 9780307957191Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Soaring above Setbacks: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African American Aviator –by Call Number: TL540.B693 A3 1996ISBN: 9781560984580Publication Date: 1996-03-17
Through the Banks of the Red Cedar –by Call Number: GV939 .W36125 W37 2022ISBN: 9781542016674Publication Date: 2021-12-07
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America –by Call Number: PN4874 .G387 A3 2019ISBN: 9781546083443Publication Date: 2019-01-08
The Fire Is upon Us –by Call Number: E185.615 .B77 2019ISBN: 9780691181547Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Watermelon and Red Birds –by Call Number: TX715.2 .A47 T39 2022ISBN: 9781982176211Publication Date: 2022-05-31
We Want to Do More Than Survive –by Call Number: On reserve at Circulation Desk: LC2717 .L68 2019ISBN: 9780807069158Publication Date: 2019-02-19
The swans of Harlem : five Black ballerinas, fifty years of sisterhood, and their reclamation of a groundbreaking history –by Call Number: GV1785 .A1 V34 2024ISBN: 9780593317525Publication Date: 2024-04-30
Critical Insights –by Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R3386 2023ISBN: 9781637004289Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Life Doesn't Frighten Me –by Call Number: PS3551.N464 L54 1993ISBN: 9781556702884Publication Date: 1993-02-06
The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero –by Call Number: GV1051 .T3 K73 2019ISBN: 9781501192593Publication Date: 2019-05-07
