Palomar College Library

 

Black History Month

February, 2008

A Select Bibliography of Resources at Palomar College Library

 

 

WEBSITES

 

NON-PROFIT, EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

 

African and African-American Studies  - Palomar College Library / Subjects

http://www.palomar.edu/library/subjects/africanamerican.htm

 

The African American Mosaic - Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

 

American Memory: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives -  Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

 

Our Shared History: African American Heritage  - United States. National Parks Service

http://www.cr.nps.gov/aahistory/

 

Americans Celebrate Black History Month – U.S. Dept. of State, International Information Programs

http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/african_americans/African_American_History_Month.html

 

African-American World  - Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/

 

Black History Month resources – Tennessee Tech University

http://www.tntech.edu/history/bhmonth.html

 

Celebrating Black History on the Web: University of Colorado

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/us/blackhistory.htm

 

Race and Slavery Petitions Project

http://library.uncg.edu/slavery%5Fpetitions/

 

BLACK WRITERS

 

Digital Schomburg African American women writers of the 19th century

http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

 

Writing Black

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html

 

African American Literature Online

http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature/

 

A brief chronology of African-American literature

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm

 

Coretta Scott King Award for African American writers and illustrators

http://www.ala.org//ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookaward/corettascott.htm

 

MUSEUMS

 

Museum of African-American History Boston & Nantucket

http://www.afroammuseum.org/

 

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

http://anacostia.si.edu/

 

National Civil Rights Museum

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

 

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/

 

HISTORIC PLACES: ONLINE TOURS

 

African American History Month (National Register of Historic Places)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/afam/

 

Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/


OTHER WEBSITES

 

Black history hotlist: a collection of internet sites

http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/blackhistory.html

 

Black Press USA

http://www.blackpressusa.com/

 

Black Facts Online

http://www.blackfacts.com/

 

Black History Pages

http://blackhistorypages.com/

 

Our Black Heritage: Historical African American Documents

http://www.ourblackheritage.com/

 

Biography.com celebrates Black History Month

http://www.biography.com/black_history/index.jsp

 

 

BOOKS

 

The books listed below may be found at Palomar College Library. For location and additional information about each title, click the blue hyperlinks. You may search the catalog of Palomar Library for more books (at the search form, click “keyword” and then type “african americans history”, “american literature afro-american authors”” in the search box), or search the catalogs of other libraries.

 

 

GENERAL

REF E185.96 .A446 2004

African American lives. Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

E184.7 .A344 2005

Afrocentric traditions / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2005.

 

REF E185 .E546 2005

Encyclopedia of African American society. Gerald D. Jaynes, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Publications, c2005. 2 volumes.

 

E185.96 .G38 2000

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Cornel West. The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country.  New York : Free Press, c2000.

 

REF E185 .R44 2000

Reference library of Black America. Jessie C. Smith, Joseph M Palmisano, eds. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale, c2000. 5 volumes.

 

E185 .F47 2003

Ferebee, Dorothy L. How to create your own African American library. New York : Ballantine Books, c2003.

 

GV865 .A1 J34 2007

Jacobson, Steve. Carrying Jackie’s torch: the players who integrated baseball—and America. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2007.

 

R853 .H8 W37 2006

Washington, Harriet A. Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. New York : Doubleday, c2006.

 

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

 

E185.61 .A69 2006

Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

E185.96 .B355 2006

Bausum, Ann. Freedom riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006.

 

REF E184 .A1 C47 2000

Martin, Waldo E. Civil rights in the United States. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000. 2 volumes.

 

E185.61 .C267 2004

Carrier, Jim. A traveler’s guide to the civil rights movement. Orlando : Harcourt, c2004.

 

KF4757 .K58 2004

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

KF4155 .K55 2004
Kluger, Richard. Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality. New York : Knopf, 2004.

 

E185.97 .D750 D8 2003
Due, Tananarive; Patricia Stephens Due. Freedom in the family : a mother-daughter memoir of the fight for civil rights. New York : One World, c2003.

 

E185.97 .K5 F695 2002
Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Penguin Group, 2002.

 

E185.615 .B67 2006
Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.

 

UG834 .A37 S36 1998
Scott, Lawrence P. Double V : the civil rights struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1998.

 

SLAVERY

 

E441 .B47 2003

Berlin, Ira. Generations of captivity : a history of African-American slaves. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

 

LC2802 .S9 W55 2005

Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press., c2005

 

E450 .T63 2000

Tobin, Jacqueline L.; Dobard, Raymond G. Hidden in plain view : the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad. New York : Anchor Books, 2000, c1999.

 

E441 .H73 2005

Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. Slavery and the making of America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

 

WOMEN

 

REF E185.86 .B542 2005

Black women in America. Darlene Clark Hine, ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 3 volumes.

 

E185.96 .P5 2000

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters. San Diego : Harcourt, c2000.

 

E185 .O43 2001

Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970.  New York : Scribner, c2001.

 

F334 .M753 P373 2000
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York : Viking, 2000.

 

E748.T58 W37 2005

Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, Stadiem, William. Dear Senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond. New York : Regan Books, c2005.

 

E185.97 .H825 B47 2005

Berry, Mary Frances. My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations. New York: Knopf, 2005.

 

E185.86 .Z66 2006

Zook, Kristal Brent. Black women’s lives: stories of power and pain. New York: Nation Books, 2006.

 

MILITARY

 

REF UB418 .A47 W45 2004

Weir, William. The encyclopedia of African American military history. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

 

E185.63 .W4 2005

We were there : voices of African American veterans from World War II to the war in Iraq. New York : Amistad, 2005, c2004.

 

E185.63 .B93 2001

Buckley, Gail. American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm.  New York : Random House, c2001.

 

REF U52 .O5 2004

On the trail of the buffalo soldier II : new and revised biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917. Irene Schubert, Frank N. Schubert, eds. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

 

E540.N3 F73 2004

Freedom’s journey : African American voices of the Civil War. Donald Yacovone, ed. Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2004.

 

D769.306 761st .A24 2004

Abdul-Jabbas, Kareem; Walton, Anthony. Brothers in arms : the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s forgotten heroes.  New York : Broadway Books, 2004.

 

MEDIA

 

KF4757 .B57 2002
Birth struggle of the 1964 Civil Rights Act [videorecording] / produced by CBS News. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002. VHS tape.

 

E185.97 .K5 C58 2004
Bagwell, Orlando. Citizen King [videorecording]. [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, c2004. DVD.

 

RA1057.55 .A375 2006

African American lives [videorecording]/ a film by Kunhardt Productions. Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, c2006. DVD.

 

E441 .D2495 2006 EB

Davis, David. Inhuman bondage [electronic book]: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World.  New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.

 

ARTICLES

 

The full-text of the following articles may be found by clicking on the blue hyperlinks. Find additional articles in other online databases. Passwords are required for off-campus access to these databases.

 

“Month to remember a bleaker past.” Toronto Star 4 Feb. 2006: E04. NewspaperSource. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&an=6FP1985856437

Simmons, Deborah. “Is America there yet?”  Washington Times 6 Feb. 2006: A17. NewspaperSource. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&an=4KB20060206113353

Murt, Thomas P. “Buffalo soldier speaks to Army Reserve soldiers about Black History Month.”  Murt Army Reserve Magazine Summer 2005: 41-42. MasterFILE Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&an=18320798

Lum, Lydia. “Incorporating the Ideals of Black History Month—In Our Daily Lives.”  Black Issues in Higher Education 10 Feb. 2005: 36. MasterFILE Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&an=16171026

Standard, Kenneth G. “Our responsibility to Thurgood Marshall and Dr. King.” New York Amsterdam News 3 March 2005: 13. MasterFILE Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&an=16345643

“African-American Voices” [quotations in honor of the year 2001 Black History Month] Christianity Today 5 Feb. 2001: 70. NewspaperSource. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&an=4035219

“Historical significance of Black History Month.” Black History Bulletin Jan-Jun 2002, Vol. 65 Issue ˝, p 39. Academic Search Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 22 Nov. 2006.  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8945312&site=ehost-live

Jalata, Asafa. “Revisiting the Black struggle: Lessons for the 21st century.” Journal of Black Studies Sep. 2002: Vol. 33, No. 1, 86-116.  JSTOR. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 20 Nov. 2006.  http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9347%28200209%2933%3A1%3C86%3ARTBSLF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

Keels, Crystal L. “Celebration or placebo?” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 23 Jan. 2006: 28. Academic Search Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 22 Nov. 2006. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19952820&site=ehost-live

Pye, David Kenneth. “Complex Relations: An African-American Attorney Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta.” Georgia Historical Quarterly Winter 2007, Vol. 91 Issue 4, p453-477.  Academic Search Premier. Ebscohost. Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA. 24 Jan. 2008. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=27955258&site=ehost-live

Wade-Lewis, Margaret. “I remember Rosa Parks: The impact of segregation.” Black Scholar Winter 2006, Vol. 35 Issue 4, 2-12. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Ebscohost, Palomar College Lib., San Marcos, CA 22 Nov. 2006. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pbh&AN=21034068&site=ehost-live

 

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