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Knock at the Door of Opportunity by Christopher Robert Reed
Publication Date: 2014

This volume investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s.
Black Exodus by Alferdteen Harrison
Publication Date: 2012

Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century.
Black Moses by E. David Cronon; John Hope Franklin (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 1960

In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric.
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins; Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2007

Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. This new edition features a foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad, who notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history."

Juneteenth

Hidden Black History: From Juneteenth to Redlining by Amanda Jackson Green
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781728429779

Publication Date: 2021

Many important moments in history have not been taught in schools or explored in the mainstream media. These events often include people of color and involve Black history. This “whitewashing” of history, intentional or not, puts all Americans at a disadvantage. Learn about Black history moments that shaped America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 to the Freedom Summer of 1964, and read about efforts to reshape how we teach Black history in schools in the 21st century.
General Gordon Granger by Robert C. Conner
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 1612001858

Publication Date: 2013-11-15

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of U.S. troops in Texas, his actions sparked the "Juneteenth" celebrations of slavery's end, which continue to this day.
Juneteenth by Lynn Peppas
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 1427194459

Publication Date: 2010-04-30

Every year on June 19th, people of all backgrounds celebrate the day that African Americans were freed from slavery in the United States. The occasion is marked by picnics and even rodeos that celebrate famous black cowboys! Young readers will be fascinated to learn about the history of the Civil War and the law that freed the slaves.

Public Law 117–17
An Act to Amend Title 5, United States Code, to Designate Juneteenth National Independence Day as a Legal Public Holiday.

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Books: Black Migrations

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555 .L62515 1952a

Publication Date: 1952

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read, a first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South...
The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann
Call Number: E185.6 .L36 1991

Publication Date: 1992

Provides identity to those who have been participants in Afro-American diaspora, and examines the issues of urban disintegration and rural poverty. Between the early 1940s and the late 1960s, more than five million African Americans left the fields and farms of the Deep South and headed for the big cities...
They Followed the Trade Winds by Miles M. Jackson
Call Number: HN933 .S6 v.44

Publication Date: 2014

A comprehensive written treatment of the African American presence in Hawaii. It appeared as Social Process in Hawaii (Volume 43, 2004). This volume adds topics in new studies on African Americans in Hawaii.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010

Publication Date: 2010

This book chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.

More Books for Black History Month

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston; Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)
Call Number: E445.A3 H87 2018

Publication Date: 2018

Tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis.
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Call Number: E185.97.O23 A3 2004

Publication Date: 2004

In this memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey...
Freedom Flyers by J. Todd Moye
Call Number: D790.252 332nd .M69 2012

Publication Date: 2012

Denied the right to fully participate in the U.S. war effort alongside whites at the beginning of World War II, African Americans - spurred on by black newspapers and civil rights organizations such as the NAACP - compelled the prestigious Army Air Corps to open its training programs to black pilots, despite the objections of its top generals.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016b

Publication Date: 2016

The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z466 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Malcolm X by Manning Marable; G. Valmont Thomas (Read by)
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57636 2011

Publication Date: 2011

Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans...