Lets Celebrate Black History

Bibliography of books found on the shelves of the PFTSTA Library

305.8 ARO

Aronson, Marc. Race : a history beyond black and white. 1st ed. New York :
Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Marc Aronson traces the history of racial prejudice in the Western world
from ancient times to the present, identifying events and individuals that
have influenced people's conceptions about race.

305.8 WRI

Wright, Simeon, 1942-. Simeon's story : an eyewitness account of the

kidnapping of Emmett Till. 1st ed. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010.
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old AfricanAmerican who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white
woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the
1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was
kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family
and the community.

305.896
OSB

Osborne, Linda Barrett, 1949-. Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil
rights in the Jim Crow years. New York : Abrams Books for Young
Readers, 2012.. Describes the lives of African Americans during the Jim
Crow years, a period of legal segregation and discrimination from the
1890s through the 1950s, including photographs and interviews with
African Americans who were young during this time and other primary
resources.

306.3 FRA

Fradin, Judith Bloom. 5,000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight
from slavery. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.
Presents a detailed account of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape
from slavery in 1848, and describes the institution of slavery in the
South along with the abolitionist movement and the Underground
Railroad.

323 BAU

Bausum, Ann. Freedom riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of
the Civil Rights Movement. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,
c2006.
Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in
1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.

323.1 FIN

Finlayson, Reggie. We shall overcome : the history of the American civil

rights movement. Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, c2003.
Uses the words of spirituals and other music of the time to frame a
discussion of the civil rights movement in the United States, focusing on
specific people, incidents, and court cases.

323.119
BOW

Bowers, Rick, 1952-. Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network
that tried to destroy the civil rights movement. Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic, c2010.

Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted

to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive
propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as
communists.
323.1196
FRE

Freedman, Russell. Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus

boycott. New York : Holiday House, c2006.
Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the major
persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal
rights on Montgomery's city buses.

323.1196
LEW

Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- author. March.

Presents in graphic novel format events from the life of Georgia
congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his
meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the birth of the Nashville
Student Movement.

323.1196
PAR

Partridge, Elizabeth. Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and

don't you grow weary. New York : Viking, 2009.
Recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery
to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to
vote.

323.1196
RAP

Rappaport, Doreen. Nobody gonna turn me 'round : stories and songs of the
civil rights movement. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press,
2006.
Chronicles the events of the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965,
and includes songs, poems, memoirs, and letters from the period.

364.1 ARE

Aretha, David. The murder of Emmett Till. 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan
Reynolds Pub., c2008.
Chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager,
Emmett Till, by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W.
Milam, the trial and acquittal that followed, and how the incident
impacted the civil rights movement.

364.15 CRO

Crowe, Chris. Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till
case. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till,
in Mississippi, in 1955.

371.829
STO

Stokes, John A., 1931-. Students on strike : Jim Crow, civil rights, Brown, and
me : a memoir. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.
John A. Stokes, one of the leaders of the student strike at R. R. Morton
High School in 1951, describes the conditions in which he and his fellow
classmates learned and provides an account of how they fought against

segregation.
398.2 HAM

Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002. The people could fly : American Black

folktales. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, c1985.
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and
desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in
hope.

664 ARO

Aronson, Marc. Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery,
freedom, and science. Boston : Clarion Books, c2010.
Songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations
help trace the history of sugar and the sugar trade.

700.89
WOR

Worth, Richard. The Harlem Renaissance : an explosion of African-American

culture. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2009.
Explores the Harlem Renaissance, a reawakening of African-American
culture, including literature, the arts theater, and music, motivated by a
goal to achieve equal rights.

741.5 STU

Sturm, James, 1965-. Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow. 1st ed. New York :
Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, c2007.
A graphic novel account of the career of Negro League pitcher Satchel
Paige, discussing the show he put on as a popular player, as well as the
respect he demanded as an African-American.

808 MEM

Memories of sun : stories of Africa and America. 1st ed. New York :
Amistad/Greenwillow Books, c2004.
Presents a collection of short stories and poems by authors from both
continents about life in various African countries and some of the
experiences and impressions of Americans in Africa and of Africans in
America.

810.9 HIL

Hill, Laban Carrick. Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem

Renaissance. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2003.
Offers a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how it
sparked a period of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming
for many African-Americans.

811 HUG

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Langston Hughes. New York : Sterling Pub.,

c2006.
An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems by noted African-American
poet Langston Hughes, and contains a detailed introduction and
biography, as well as brief notes accompanying each poem.

811 SHA

Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996. The rose that grew from concrete. New York :
Pocket Books, c1999.
A collection of poems written by rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur at the

age of nineteen.
811 SHA

Shange, Ntozake. Ellington was not a street. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004], c1983.
Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her
childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie,
Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were
instrumental in changing American culture and society.

920 FLE

Fleischman, John, 1948-. Black and white airmen : their true history. Boston,
Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Presents the true story of two men--one African-American, the other
white--who lived in the same Ohio neighborhood, went to the same
school, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, and finally became close
friends nearly sixty years later.

920 FRE

Freedman, Russell, author. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the

story behind an American friendship.
Looks at the lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, including
their friendship and their affect on emancipation and the Civil War.

921 AND

Freedman, Russell. The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and
the struggle for equal rights. New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
Tells the life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous
1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she helped end
segregation in the American arts after being refused the right to perform
at Washington's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin.

921 COL

Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-. Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice. 1st ed. New
York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009.
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an AfricanAmerican girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a
segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa
Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.

921 GIL

Winter, Jonah. Dizzy. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine, 2006.
Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of jazz musician Dizzy
Gillespie.

921 HEN

Johnson, Dolores, 1949-. Onward : a photobiography of African-American

polar explorer Matthew Henson. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,
c2006.
Presents the story of the expedition to the North Pole by explorers Robert
Peary and African-American Matthew Henson, focusing on the
contributions made by Henson.

921 HUN

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. To the mountaintop! : my journey through the civil

rights movement. 1st ed.
The author describes her involvement in the civil rights movement and

the way she felt at the inauguration of Barack Obama, featuring blackand-white photographs, articles from the "New York Times," and more.
921 KIN

Bolden, Tonya. M.L.K. : journey of a King. New York : Abrams Books for Young
Readers, 2007.
Profiles the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and includes over
eighty illustrated photographs that describe his marches, speeches, and
non-violence philosophy.

921 NOR

Fradin, Judith Bloom. Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup,
free Black man. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2012.
Recounts the experiences of Solomon Northup, an African American man
who was kidnapped into slavery and suffered through twelve years of
bondage before being rescued from the Louisiana cotton plantation by
friends from New York.

921 SAN

Neri, Greg. Yummy : the last days of a Southside shorty. 1st ed. New York :
Lee & Low Books, c2010.
A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer,
an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who
went on the run after shooting a young girl and was later found dead,
shot by members of his own gang.

921 STI

Fradin, Dennis B. My family shall be free! : the life of Peter Still. 1st ed. New
York : HarperCollins, c2001.
Shares the story of Peter Still, a boy left behind in slavery when his
mother decided to flee north with her baby daughters in 1806;
discussing how he was able to purchase his freedom after forty years in
bondage, and telling about his risky attempts to win freedom for his wife
and children.

921 TER

Fradin, Dennis B. Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration. New
York : Clarion Books, c2003.
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member,
who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that
led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area
restaurants.

921 WOO

Woodson, Jacqueline, author. Brown girl dreaming.

"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks
that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in
the North and South"--Provided by publisher.

940.54
MOO

Moore, Christopher, 1952-. Fighting for America : black soldiers-- the unsung
heroes of World War II. Presidio Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 2006.
Explores the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II,
presenting letters and oral histories from and about the Tuskegee
Airmen; soldiers at Normandy; members of the 761st Tank Battalion
under George Patton; Dorie Miller, the messman who shot down four

Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor; and others.

940.54 SHE

Sheinkin, Steve. The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil
rights. 1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair
conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and
how the incident influenced civil rights.

940.54 STO

Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles :
America's first black paratroopers. 1st ed.
Tells the story of America's first black paratroopers during World War II.

973 GAT

Gates, Henry Louis. Life upon these shores : looking at African American
history, 1513-2008. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2011.
Traces African American history from 1513-2008, focusing on defining
events, debates, and controversies, covering history, society, politics,
and culture, and including eight hundred images.

973.3 BLA

Blair, Margaret Whitman. Liberty or death : the surprising story of runaway

slaves who sided with the British during the American
Revolution. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
Recounts the experiences of the slaves who answered Lord Dunmore's
1775 promise that any slave who left his master and fought for the
British would have their freedom.

973.7 PIT

Pittman, Rickey. Jim Limber Davis : a Black orphan in the Confederate White
House. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub., 2007.
An illustrated account of Jim Limber, a slave child who was taken in by
the family of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and raised along
with the Davis children until being kidnapped by Yankees.

974.7 BOL

Bolden, Tonya. Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl. New York :

Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2005.
Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Rmond Lyons who was born
in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her
family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she
overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to
graduate from Providence High School.