Black History 2008 - Adult Non-Fiction

	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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	Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night Sallie Ann Robinson (Univ. of North Carolina Press, c2007) Shelf Number: 641.59757/R664c Gullah are the hardscrabble South Carolina Low Country descendants of plantation slaves, and their meals reveal African, Jamaican and Caribbean influences. The author combines a memoir of growing up with her nine siblings and down-to-earth recipes to cover each meal of the day.
	Double Outsiders: How Women of Color Can Succeed in Corporate America Jessica Carter (JIST Pub., c2007) Shelf Number: 650.1082/C3238d Double Outsiders is the first book of its kind to help women of color overcome the barriers they may face along their career path.
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	A Forgotten Horseman: A Son’s Weekend Memoir Lee Downing (s.n., 2006) Shelf Number: 636.1/D7514/Biography This book is about a summer weekend the author spent as a ten year old boy helping his father at a horse show and the invaluable lessons of life he learned from his dad and his fellow forgotten horsemen.
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	Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper Jacqueline Bacon (Lexington Books, c2007) Shelf Number: 071.471/B1287f Freedom's Journal is a comprehensive study of the first African-American newspaper, which was founded in the first half of the 19th Century.
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	Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Felicia Pearson (Grand Central Pub., c2007) Shelf Number: 791.45092/P3616g/BIOGRAPHY Now an actress in TV’s The Wire, the author delivers a powerful poetic tale of her life so far: born a crack baby, raised in foster care, lived on the streets, dealt drugs, and went to prison for killing a woman in self-defense when she was only 15. Her memoir is even more horrifying than the cold-blooded killer she portrays on TV. Pearson's homosexuality is handled with directness. Dealt such a raw hand by life, Pearson's discovery by an actor makes a welcome end to this brutally honest tale of a life that came close to being a waste.
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	Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life Beverly Lowry (Doubleday / Random House, c2007) Shelf Number: 326.092/T885lo/BIOGRAPHY Denied an education, Tubman could not tell her own story, so many of the details have been lost. Lowry fills in the gaps by providing a “reimagined” biography of the famous Underground Railroad conductor using previous biographies, archival material, and new findings, including a runaway-slave ad (mentioning Tubman by name) found in a dumpster by a determined researcher. A richly told story of a woman who risked her life repeatedly to free slaves and to serve in the Union army during the Civil War.
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