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Celebrate Black History Month with these recommended titles by, for and about African Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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American Slave, American Hero: York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Calkins Creek Books, c2006)
Shelf Number: J971.8042/Y61p/TWEEN/BIOGRAPHY
Offers the true account of York, the African-American slave owned by William Clark, who went on and helped make the famous Lewis and Clark expedition the great success it turned out to be, enhanced with vivid illustrations and quotations from the expedition's journals. |
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Birmingham, 1963
Carole Boston Weatherford (Wordsong / Boyds Mills Press, c2007)
Shelf Number: J811/W3626b
Told through the voice of a fictional eyewitness, the tragic events of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963 by the Ku Klux Klan and its effects on the Civil Rights Movement are presented through poetic verse and archival photographs. |
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Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
J. Patrick Lewis (Creative Editions, c2006)
Shelf Number: J781.643/J68l/BIOGRAPHY
Poetry and music lyrics celebrate the life of Robert Johnson, a legendary guitarist who lived during the Depression and became one of the leading musicians of blues music before his untimely death at the age of twenty-seven. |
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
Thomas B. Allen (National Geographic Society, c2006)
Shelf Number: J326.092/T885al/BIOGRAPHY
Drawn from military and intelligence archives, diaries, and memoirs from ex-slaves, this gripping account, accompanied by woodcut illustrations, follows the true-life adventures of African-American spies, including Harriet Tubman, who risked everything in the name of freedom. |
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Carole Boston Weatherford (Walker ,c2007)
Shelf Number: J796.42092/OW97w/TWEEN/BIOGRAPHY
Inspirational biography of the African-American track star, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where Hitler was determined to prove that Aryans were the superior race, details the challenges he overcame to realize his dreams and prove a Nazi dictator wrong. |
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John Henry
Stephen Krensky (Millbrook Press,c2007)
Shelf Number: J398.22097/K9237j/TWEEN
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain. |
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