Selected Black History Month Readings
Up From Slavery
E 185.97 .W4 A37 1976
African Saints, African Stories: 40 Holy Men and Women
BR 1700.3 .B76 2008
The Souls of Black Folk
E 185.5 .D81 2009
Between the World and Me
E 185.615 .C6335 2015
Black Boy
PS 3545 .R815 Z96 2020
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
E 449 .D749 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PS 3551 .N464 Z466 2015
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
E 185 .625 .T38 2003
Barracoon: The Story of the Last
"Black Cargo"
E 444 .L49 H87 2018
So You Want to Talk about Race
E 184 .A1 O454 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist
E 185.97 .K43 A3 2020
The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader
E 449 .D7491 1996
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
F 334 .M753 P3883 2015
Closer to Freedom
E 443 .C36 2004
Uncommon Faithfulness
BX 1407 .N4 U53 2009
The Classic Slave Narratives
E 444 .C63 1987
Notes of a Native Son
E 185.61 .B18 N6 1984
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
E 185.97 .B26 A3 2020
Time on Two Crosses
E 185 .615 .R84 2003
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
E 185 .F8266 2011
This Bridge Called My Back
PS 509 .F44 T5 2015
The Truths We Hold
E 901.1 .H37 A3 2020
Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
E 185.97 .L79 H37 2008
New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and
American Culture, 1965-1975
E 185.86 .V36 1992
Writing to Save a Life
D 810 .N4 W49 2016
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
E 184 .S75 O79 2018
Freedom's Daughters
E 185 .O43 2001
Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement
E 185.97 .B214 R36 2003
The Sword and the Shield
E 185.97 .K5 J67 2020
Black Is Beautiful
BH 301 .B53 T39 2016
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
PS 3555 .L625 Z48 2019
The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology
Online Access - EBSCO eBook Collection
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
E 184.6 .L48 2009
Hot Music
PS 153 .N5 T67 2015
The History of Black Catholics in the United States
BX 1407 .N4 D38 1995
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time
BX 4412 .M67 2002
Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience
Br 563 .N4 C67 2018
Four Early 20th Century Piano Suites by Black Composers
M 24 .F75 1997
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
ML 410 .P835 B76 2020
Juneteenth Texas
Online Access - EBSCO eBook Collection
A Promised Land
E 908 .A3 2020
Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction
HQ 1190 .M383 2012
Sonata in E Minor - For Piano
M 23 .P9 1997
A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers
M 1619 .N48 2004
From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music
ML 390 .W16 2007
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
PN 4874 .G387 A3 2019
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
E 185.2 .B545 2009
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
E 185.97.L79 S83 2018
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures
PS 169 .L5 D38 2019
Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare
RA 448.5 .N4 M33 2018
Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature
PS 217.W66 H37 2020
Black Cultural Mythology
PS 153 .T43 2020
Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist
ML 410 .W278 A3 2009
I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still
ML 410 .S855 S69 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
PS 3515 .U789 T5 1978
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
ML 1700 .A53 2018
It's Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music
ML 3545 .H88 2016
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir
F 189 .B153 C63 2009
Blake or, The Huts of America
PS 1534 .D134 B57 2017
A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
F 456 .M66 2021
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
F 548.9 .R66 2020
Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle
E 185.97 .E345 A63 2011
Jesus and the Disinherited
BS 2417 .S7 T5 1996
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
PS 3562.075 .Z23 1982
The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
F 704 .T92 P36 2021
Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology
BR 1360 .J66 2020
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
E 185.2 .L57 1980
From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854-1897), First Black American Priest of the Untied States
BX 4705 .T6813 H4 2006
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World
HT 1096 .O34 2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
E 185 .F625 2021
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
E 444 .U57 2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
BR 563 .N4 G295 2021
Theologizing in Black
BR 1360 .J66 2020
South to Freedom
HT1053 .B38 2020
Carry On
E 840.8 .L43 A3 2021
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
HM 671 .K333 2021
Freedom Narratives of African American Women
Online Access - Overdrive
Alabama v. King
E 185.61 .A166 2022
Selected Poetry and Literature Titles
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
PS 508 .N3 P596 2017
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
PS 508 .N3 P59 1994
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #97)
PS 3552 .A45 A6 1998
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PS 3551 .N464 Z466 2015
Wade in the Water
PS 3619 .M5955 A6 2018
Antebellum Dream Book
PS 3551 .L3494 A84 2001
The Best of Simple
PS 3515 .U274 B4 1990
The Body's Question
PS 3619 .M5955 B63 2003
Life on Mars
PS 3619 .M5955 L54 2011
Passing
PS 3523 .A7225 P377 2020
Quicksand
PS 3523 .A7225 Q55 2010
The Bluest Eye
PS 3563 .O8749 B55 1993
Sula
PS 3563 .O8749 S8 2004
Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era
Online Access - EBSCO eBook Collection
The Blacker the Berry
PS 3539 .H957 B53 2015
The Fire in the Flint
PS 3545 .H6165 F52 1996
Flight
PS 3545 .H6165 F58 1998
Black No More
PS 3537 .C76 B56 2018
The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher
PS 3511 .I7436 Z78 2008
Kernel of Sanity
PS 3556 .R3633 K47 2014
Fairview: A Play
PS 3604 .R873 F35 2019
The Piano Lesson
PS 3573 .I45677 P5 1990
Fences
PS3573.I45677 F4 1986
Home to Harlem
PS 3525 .A24785 H6 1987
Cane
PS 3539 .O478 C3 2011
Harlem Shadows
PS 3525 .A24785 A6 2018
Harlem Gallery and Other Poems
PS 3539 .O334 A6 1999
Tar Baby
PS 3563 .O8749 T37 2004
Love
PS 3563 .O8749 L68 2003
A Mercy
PS 3563 .O8749 M47 2009
Home
PS 3563 .O8749 H66 2013
God Help the Child
PS 3563 .O8749 G63 2015
Desdemona
PS 3563 .O8749 D47 2012
American Sublime
PS 3551 .L3494 A8 2005
The Venus Hottentot
PS 3551 .L3494 V46 2004
Crave Radiance
PS 3551 .L3494 C73 2010
Domestic Work
PS 3570 .R433 D66 2000
Bellocq's Ophelia
PS 3570 .R433 B45 2002
Native Guard
PS 3570 .R433 N38 2006
Monument
PS 3570 .R433 A6 2018
Blue Laws
PS 3575 .O798 A6 2016
For the Confederate Dead
PS 3575 .O798 F67 2007
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
NX 512.3 .A35 Y68 2012
The Racial Imaginary
PS 228 .R32 R33 2016
The White Card
PS 3568 .A572 W45 2019
Recyclopedia
PS 3563 .U3954 R43 2006
Grace Notes
PS 3554 .O884 G7 1991
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
PS 3562 .O75 A6 2020
Lion's Blood
PS 3552 .A6954 L56 2002
Dessa Rose
PS 3573 .I45546 D47 2018
African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
PS 591 .N4 A35 1992
Felon: Poems
PS 3602 .E826 A6 2019
Shadow and Act
PS 153 .N5 E4 1995
Survival Math
E 185.86 .J332 2020
This Mournable Body
PR 9390.9 .D36 T48 2018
The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
E 185 .H565 2021
Most Way Home
PS 3575 .O798 M67 1995
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
PS 591 .G33 F87 2020
The Essential Clarence Major
PS 3563 .A39 A6 2020
The Tradition
PS 3602 .R699 A6 2019
The New Testament
PS 3602 .R699 A6 2014
The Book of American Negro Poetry
Online Resource - Overdrive Electronic Book
Harlem Shuffle
PS 3573 .H4768 H37 2021
All That She Carried
E 445 .S7 M55 2021
I Am Not Your Negro
E 185.61 .B196 2017
Black Catholic History - On July 24, 1990, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus of the United States designated November as Black Catholic History Month to celebrate the long history and proud heritage of Black Catholics.
The History of Black Catholics in the United States
BX 1407 .N4 D38 1995
To Stand on the Rock
BX 1407 .B63 B76|Z2011
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
BX 1407 .B63 W55 2022
African Saints, African Stories: 40 Holy Men and Women
BR 1700.3 .B76 2008
From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854-1897),
First Black American Priest of the United States
BX 4705 .T6813 H4 2006
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
BX 4655.3 .R69 2019
Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience
BX 1407 .N4 U53 2009
The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille
BX 4496.7 .Z8 C67 2009
A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver, 1581-1654
BX 4700 .C65 L8 1947
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration
BX 1407 .C74 2017
"Stamped with the Image of God": African Americans as God's Image in Black
BX 1407 .N4 S73 2003
Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk; Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology
BX 1407 .N4 B56 1997
To Stand on the Rock
BX 1407 .B63 B76|Z2011
Juneteenth - On June 19, 1865, word reached over 250,000 enslaved black people in Texas that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by Abraham Lincoln more than two and half years earlier and that they were granted freedom.
The Long Emancipation
E 441 .B48 2018
On Juneteenth
E 185.93 .T4 G67 2021
To Raise Up a Nation
E 540 .N3 K56 2013
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
E 441 .R28 2015
Freedom Narratives of African American Women
Online Access - Overdrive
The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman
Suggested Videos, Online Resources, and Readings
- Juneteenth and General Order No. 3 - Galveston Historical Foundation "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. – General Order No. 3"
- Tolton | A film about the first Black Catholic Priest in the United StatesA film about the first Black Catholic Priest in the United States and his heroic journey towards the Priesthood. Being born into slavery in 1854, he faced many adversities and obstacles. However, this is the story of his perseverance through it all.
- What Juneteenth Can Tell Us About the Value of Black Life in America Juneteenth has taken on a symbolic national reverence as the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas, but, in reality, the emancipation proclamation didn’t end slavery, and neither did the civil war. Reporter Nicole Ellis revisits Galveston, Tex., where Gen. Gordon Granger delivered an order that emancipated 250,000 enslaved people on June 19, 1865. Granger clarifying words on the value of Black life in America distinguishes Juneteenth as emancipation day. But our ability to live up to that ideal as a nation is best measured in the days, weeks and years that followed.
- Black Catholic History Month Resource Packet Black Catholics trace their faith history back to Christian antiquity long before other nations heard the "Good News." Christian Africa was indeed a "leading light" in early Christendom. Black Catholics point to three popes who were born in Africa: Saints Victor I, Melchiades, and Gelasius I. All three shepherded the early church through tough and tumultuous times in history. Black Catholics claim many Black Saints like Saints Cyprian, Zeno, Anthony of Egypt, Moses the Black, Pachomius, Maurice, Athanasius, Pisentius, Mary of Egypt, Cyril of Alexandria, Monica of Hippo, Augustine of Hippo, Perpetua, Felicitas, and Thecla. Some of these mystics, monastics, ands, martyrs literally made the church what it is today.
African American Museum - Dallas
History of the AAM
In 1974, the Dallas African American Museum was founded on the campus of Bishop College. The original name of the Museum was the "Southwest Research Center and Museum of African-American Life and Culture." After its founding, the Museum developed and sponsored programs and activities that highlighted its mission. It sponsored African and African-American art exhibitions, a lecture series named in honor of Bishop College's first African-American president Joseph J. Rhoads, and a biennial Texas women's conference that was eventually named for Dallas journalist and local historian Dickie Foster.
In 2019, the African American Museum celebrated its 45th Anniversary. With widespread community support, it has become one of the most successful museums promoting and preserving African American history and culture in the United States. For example, in 2019-2020, the Museum sponsored two widely acclaimed exhibitions: "The Paradox of Liberty: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello" and "The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection." These two exhibitions attracted over 75,000 visitors to the Museum and highlighted the success of the Museum in attracting a diverse audience from the local community as well as people visiting Dallas from elsewhere.
The African American Museum continues to collect the personal papers of people in the local community and artifacts that highlight the African and African-American experience. Currently, the Museum holds fifty-eight archival collections and over 200 artifacts,
3536 Grand Avenue, Dallas, TX