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Black History Month 2024

Celebrate Black History Month with these great non-fiction titles that explore the history of Black Lives in America.

Grand Rapids Public Library

26 items

  • Africatown

    America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

    Tabor, Nick,
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — 305.896 T114a
  • The Sergeant

    the Incredible Life of Nicholas Said : Son of An African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army

    Calbreath, Dean,
    BookNew York ; London : Pegasus Books, 2023. — Biography Said, Nicholas
  • Illustrated Black History

    Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

    McCalman, George,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 920.009296 M125i
  • Black AF History

    the Un-whitewashed Story of America

    Harriot, Michael,
    BookNew York, NY : DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow, [2023] — 973.0496073 H239b
  • The Black Reparations Project

    a Handbook for Racial Justice

    BookOakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] — 305.896073 B561r
  • The 272

    the Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

    Swarns, Rachel L.,
    BookNew York : Random House, [2023] — 306.362 Sw25t
  • 50 Events That Shaped African American History

    An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

    BookSanta Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019] — R 973.0496 F466 v.2
  • The Grimkes

    the Legacy of Slavery in An American Family

    Greenidge, Kerri K.,
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 920.009296 G839g
  • Of Greed and Glory

    in Pursuit of Freedom for All

    Plant, Deborah G., 1956-
    BookNew York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 326.0973 P694o
  • Psalms of My People

    a Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-hop

    Duncan, Lenny,
    BookMinneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2024]
  • The Survivors of the Clotilda

    the Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

    Durkin, Hannah,
    BookNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 306.36209761 D935s
  • The Last Slave Ship

    the True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and An Extraordinary Reckoning

    Raines, Ben,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 306.362 R135L
  • Sheridan's Secret Mission

    How the South Won the War After the Civil War

    Cwiklik, Robert,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 973.82 C991s
  • Madness

    Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

    Hylton, Antonia,
    BookNew York : Legacy Lit, 2024. — 362.21 H997m
  • Black Women Taught Us

    An Intimate History of Black Feminism

    Jackson, Jenn M.,
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — 305.48896 J135b
  • The African-American Heritage Cookbook

    Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances From Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute

    Tillery, Carolyn Quick,
    BookNew York, NY : Dafina, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024] — 641.59296 T463a 2024