Black History Month 2009
Books | Films & Documentaries | Websites | Archived Pages
In celebration of Black History Month, Langsdale Library is highlighting works that touch on this year's theme,“The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas." This year, Black History Month coincides with the NAACP Centennial (1909-2009), a yearlong celebration that begins February 12.
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Books
African Americans and the Living Constitution
John Hope Franklin and Genna Rae McNeil
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995
KF4757.A5 A44 1995
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Daniel Levine
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000
E185.97.R93 L49 2000
The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance, 2nd ed.
William T. Martin Riches
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Net Library E-Book (Access to this electronic book is available to students, faculty, staff, and on-site users at USMAI institutions)
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara Ransby
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Net Library E-Book (Access to this electronic book is available to students, faculty, staff, and on-site users at USMAI institutions)
Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP
Langston Hughes
New York: Norton, 1962
E185.5.N27 H8
In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
Merline Pitre
College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999
Net Library E-Book (Access to this electronic book is available to students, faculty, staff, and on-site users at USMAI institutions)
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
Carolyn Wedin
New York: Wiley, 1998
E185.98.O95 W44 1998
Net Library E-Book (Access to this electronic book is available to students, faculty, staff, and on-site users at USMAI institutions)
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Thomas J. Sugrue
New York: Random House, 2008
E185.9.S95 2008
The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and The Struggle for Black Political Integration
Manfred Berg
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005
JK1924 .B47 2005
Till Victory is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP
Janet Cheatham Bell
New York: Washington Square Press, 2002
XPN6081.3 .T55 2002
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Films & Documentaries
At the River I Stand (1993)
HD5325.S2572 M46 2004 DVD
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement (2006) E185.61 .E943 2006 DVD
Fundi, the Story of Ella Baker (1981) E185.97.B3 F8 1987 VHS
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005) GV1132 .J6 U54 2005 DVD
Voices of Civil Rrights (2006) E185.61 .C5855 2006 DVD
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Websites
African American History Month
http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/
This page links to online collections and exhibits, events, multimedia files, and information for teachers. Sponsors include the Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the National Park Service.
Association for the Study of African Life and History (ASALH) http://www.asalh.org/themes_future.html
This organization sets the theme for U.S. Black History Month each year. You can also find previous and future themes here.
Black History Month Free Resources Site
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/activities/
Includes screensavers, calendars, activities, biographies, a quiz, and other materials.
Black Voices – Black History 365
http://www.blackvoices.com/black-history-month
This AOL portal links to articles, image galleries, discussion boards about the African American experience.
NAACP Centennial Legacy Calendar
http://www.naacp.org/events/centennial/index.htm
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is celebrating its centennial on February 12, 2009 with a yearlong schedule of events. This page provides links to event information, a history of the organization, and a timeline of important events.
National Museum of African American History and Culture http://nmaahc.si.edu/
From the website: “The Smithsonian’s newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), was established in 2003 and is scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2015.”
The site lists current exhibitions and programs, provides educational materials, and hosts the virtual Memory Book ; members of the public are invited to contribute their stories, histories, ideas and images.
Profile America : Black History Month http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/broadcast/radio/special_radio_features.html
From the website: "Profile America is a daily, 60-second feature that uses interesting vignettes from key events, observances or commemorations for that day to highlight information collected by the Census Bureau."
Each 60-second podcast features the contributions of a different African-American. You can listen online, or download the .mp3 file. There is also an RSS feed available .
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