Web Sites for Black History Month
Black History, Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
There are links to six web sites that were created as models to suggest ways to integrate the World Wide Web and videoconferencing into classroom learning.
Books for Black History Month
Black Books Galore! A Guide to Great African American Children's Books. Donna Rand (Z1361N39R33 1998)
Picture Books
Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers. Deborah Hopkinson.
Big Jabe. Jerdine Nolan.
Bus of Our Own Freddi Evans.
Down the Winding Road. Angela Johnson.
Ellington Was Not a StreetNtozake Shange
Faraway Home. Jane Kurtz.
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-insCarole Boston Weatherford
Freedom River. Doreen Rappaport
Freedom's Fruits. Hooks, William.
Going Someplace Special. Patricia McKissack
Imani's Music. Sheron Williams.
In the Time of the Drums. Kim Siegelson.
Invisible Princess. Faith Ringgold.
Jump Rope Magic. Afi Scruggs.
Leola and the Honeybears: An African-American Retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Melodye Benson Rosales.
Mississippi MorningRuth Vander Zee
Mr. WilliamsKaren Barbour.
Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family. Dolores Johnson.
Piano. William Miller.
Place Called Freedom. Scott Sanders.
Quinnie Blue. Dinah Johnson
Rent Party Jazz William Miller
Secret of the Stones. Robert San Souci.
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children. Sandra Pinkney.
Show WayJacqueline Woodson.
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Deborah Hopkinson.
Sweet Smell of RosesAngela Johnson
Tambourine Moon. Joy Jones.
Under the Quilt of Night Deborah Hopkinson.
UptownBryan Collier.
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys. Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard.
The Wagon. Johnston, Tony.
Fiction
The $66 Summer John Armistead.
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Day of Tears Julius Lester
F is for Freedom Roni Schotter.
Francie Karen English.
Gloria's Way Ann Cameron.
Grandma's General Store: The ArkDorothy Carter
Jip: His Story Paterson, Katherine
The Land Mildred Taylor.
McKendree Sandra Belton.
Miles' Song Alice McGill
Mississippi Trial, 1955Chris Crowe
The Starplace Vicki Grove.
Walking to the Bus Rider Blues Harriette Gillem Robinet
Yankee Girl Mary Ann Roadman.
Information
Addy's World 1864: Growing Up During the Civil War. Susan Sinnott (F468.9 S583)
African American Quilting: The Warmth of Tradition. Sule Wilson. (TT835 W55)
Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans in the Civil War. Jim Haskins. (E540 N3H37)
Bound for the Promised Land. Michael Cooper. (E185.6 C78)
Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young People. Charles Sullivan, ed. (PS591 N3C43)
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United StatesPatricia and Fredrick McKissack. (E453 M28 2003)
Dear Mr. RosenwaldCarole Boston Weatherford. (PS3573 E135 D42 2006)
A Drawing in the Sand: A Story of African American Art. Jerry Butler. (N6537B89A2)
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights MovementAnn Bausum (E185.96 B355 2006)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Russell Freedman (F334 M79 N43 2006)
Furaha Means Happy: A Book of Swahili Words. Ken Wilson-Max (PL8703 W545)
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of hte Harlem Renaissance Laban Carrick Hill. (E185.6 H515 2004)
I Have a Dream: The Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most Famous Speech Kerry Graves. (E185.97 K5 G73)
In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artists. Compliled by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson. (E185.86 I6)
Life Under the Jim Crow Laws. Charles George (E185.61 G287 2000)
Lincoln and Slavery. Peter Burchard. (E457.2 B98 1999)
Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940. James Haskin and Kathleen Benson. (E185.6 H34 2000)
Rap and Hip Hop: The Voice of a Generation. Sherry Ayazi-Hashjin. (ML3531 A93)
Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church. Tonya Bolton. (PS3552 O3828 R63 2002)
They Came in Chains: The Story of the Slave Ships. Milton Meltzer. (E446 M48)
Through My Eyes. Ruby Bridges (F379 N59N435 1999)
Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls. Dinah Johnson. (PS3560 O3747 S58)
Slave Young Slave Long: The American Slave Experience. Meg Greene (443 G76)
We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement Reggie Finlayson. (E185.61 F48)
Poetry and Songs
Freedom Like Sunlight: Praisesongs for Black Americans (PS3562 E9465F74 2000)
In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies. Alice McGill (PS310 N4M37 2000)
Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. (PS 1556 A4 1999)
Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and Other Talking Drums Rhymes. (PS 3571 N775 O43)
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Weatherford. (PS3573 E135 R46 2002)
Wonders: The Best Children's Poems of Effie Lee Newsome. Effie Lee Newsome (PS2527 E887A6)
Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art. (PS591 N4W67)
Biography
Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way. Peter Golenbock. (GV865 A25G64 2001)
Benjamin Banneker. Melissa Maupin. (QB36 B22M38 2000)
John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire. Josephine Nobisso (F614 H6 N63 2000)
Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer. Linda Lowery (F785 N4 L69 1999)
A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War: The Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854. Charlotte Forten. (F74 S1F67)
Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston. A.P. Porter (PS3515 U789Z83)
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King.Doreen Rappaport. (E185.97 K5R36 2001)
Martin Luther King, Jr. with Profiles of Mohandas K.. Gadnhi and Nelson Mandela Lori Meek Schuldt. (E185.97 K55366 2007)
Leon's Story. Leon Tillage (F264 F86T55)
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly. Walter Dean Myers (BP223 Z8L5765)
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter. Alan Govenar (F392 H39M35)
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks. Faith Ringgold (F334 M753R56)
Satchel Paige. Lesa Cline-Ransome (GV865 P3R35 2000)
Colin Powell. John Passaro (E840.5 P68P37 1999)
My Family Shall Be Free: The Life of Peter Sill. Dennis Fradin (E444 S848 2001)
Civil Rights Pioneer: A Story about Mary Church Terrell. Gwenyth Swain (E185.97 T47S93 1999)
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Turth. Anne Rockwell (E185.97T8R63 2000)
Moses: When Harriet tubman Led Her People to Freedom Carole Boston Weatherford. (E444 T82 W42 2006)
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Kathryn Lasky (HD9970.6 C672W3547 2000)
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Dennis Fradin (E185.97 W55 F73 2000)
Little Stevie Wonder Quincy Troupe (PS3570 R63 L58 2006)
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers. Patricia and Frederick McKissak (SH581.5 M38)
Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance Stephen Hardy & Sheila Jackson Hardy (NX512.3 A35H37)