Lynnfield Public Library Shared Black History Month Books

Lynnfield MA

20 February, 2021

7:40 AM

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Press release from the Lynnfield Public Library: February 19, 2021 February is Black History Month. We've picked out just a few suggestions of books by Black authors and/or about Black people and characters. We recommend reading these books all year long, but February is a great time to start! Children Mae Among the Stars by Rhoda Ahmed This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges Claudette Colvin (She Persisted) by Lesa Cline-Ransome The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America by Russell Freedman Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies by Mireille Harper I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani Mahiri King What is the Civil Rights Movement? by Sherri Smith Young Adult Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African-American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Alexander Adult The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine I am Not Your Negro (DVD) We Were Eight Years in Power: an American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates This press release was produced by the Lynnfield Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.