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Black History Month Suggestions

American Story, An by Debra Dickerson
Autobiography of a People by Herb Boyd
Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson
Colonel’s Dream, The by Charles Chesnutt
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Fighting for America by Christopher Moore
Finding Oprah's Roots by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Forever Free by Eric Foner
Freedom in the Family by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
Harlem Renaissance, The by Steven Watson
History of African-American Artists by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson
Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely
John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois
King of the World by David Remnick
Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Motown in Love by Herb Jordan
Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
Negro's Civil War by James McPherson
Nigger by Randall Kennedy
Partners to History by Donzaleigh Abernathy
Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
Souls of Black Folk, The by W.E.B. Du Bois
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
Toussaint Louverture by Madison Smartt Bell
Uncle Tom or New Negro by Rebecca Carroll
Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey Ward
Untold Glory by Alan Govenar
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Voices of Freedom by Henry Hampton
Voices in Our Blood by Jon Meacham
Vintage Baldwin by James Baldwin
Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes