Town Of Pelham Public Library: Black History Resources For Children And Adults

Pelham NY

26 January, 2022

12:27 PM

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Press release from Town of Pelham Public Library: 2022-01-26 In celebration of Black History Month, we've put together a list of books, music, movies, and other resources that you can find at the library or in our digital collections. In addition to the resources below, you can also check out the White Plains Library's excellent African American Trailblazers collection, their #BlackJoy Picture Books collection, and of course, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards! (Have you read all the 2021 winners yet?)  At the Library Children Teens Adults Movies Borrow Online Overdrive Hoopla Kanopy A Son of Africa: the Autobiography of a Slave Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom Alice's Ordinary People Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin America's Long Struggle Against Slavery Anita: Speaking Truth to Power bell hooks Birth of a Movement Black Indians: An American Story The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution Buffalo Soldiers The Central Park Five Eyes on the Prize February One: The 1960 Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins Freedom Summer The Girls in the Band I Am Not Your Negro Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket Jimi Hendrix Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man's World The Killing Floor King: A Filmed Record  Marcus Garvey: A Giant of Black Politics Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Slavery and the Making of America Strange Fruit: the Biography of a Song T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s Tongues United: Giving Voice to Black Gay Men The Trials of Muhammad Ali Untold West: the Black West W.E.B. Du Boise: A Biography in Four Voices This press release was produced by Town of Pelham Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.