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*Recommended
for Teens
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF A PEOPLE: THREE CENTURIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT edited
by Herb Boyd.
The
voices of the famous as well as the obscure
re-create the African American experience.
E185
.A97 2000
BLACK
DIPLOMACY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE STATE
DEPARTMENT, 1945-1969 by Michael L. Krenn.
After
World War II, African Americans waged a largely
unsuccessful struggle to increase their numbers and
influence in the Foreign Service and the State
Department.
JZ1480
.K74 1999
*BLACK
HANDS, WHITE SAILS: THE STORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
WHALERS by Patricia C. McKissack and
Frederick L. McKissack.
Between
1750 and 1880, runaway slaves and free black seamen
found racial equality and opportunities for
advancement aboard whaling ships.
SH381.5
.M38 1999
BORN
IN BONDAGE: GROWING UP ENSLAVED IN THE ANTEBELLUM
SOUTH by Marie Jenkins Schwartz.
E443
.S39 2000
“BURY
ME NOT IN A LAND OF SLAVES”: AFRICAN-AMERICANS
IN THE TIME OF RECONSTRUCTION by Joyce
Hansen.
E1852
.H32 2000
THE
COMPLETE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL AND SELECTED LETTERS OF
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON edited by
Christopher Looby.
Higginson,
a prominent clergyman, author, and abolitionist,
was a colonel in the first regiment of freed slaves
in the Union Army.
E492
.94 33 .H53 2000
CONTEMPT
OF COURT: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY LYNCHING THAT
LAUNCHED 100 YEARS OF FEDERALISM by Mark
Curriden and Leroy Phillips.
After
he was wrongly convicted of rape, Ed Johnson’s
lynching led to the only Supreme Court criminal
trial.
KF224
.J63 C87 1999
*THE
FACE OF OUR PAST: IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN FROM
COLONIAL AMERICA TO THE PRESENT edited by
Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin.
E185.86
.F33 1999
LAY
THIS BODY DOWN: THE 1921 MURDERS OF ELEVEN
PLANTATION SLAVES by Gregory A. Freeman.
A
white plantation owner, in an attempt to destroy
the evidence that he kept “slaves,”
ordered one black “slave” to help kill
eleven others.
HV6534
.J36 F74 1999
A
LIFE IS MORE THAN A MOMENT: THE DESEGREGATION OF
LITTLE ROCK’S CENTRAL HIGH by I.
Wilmer Counts.
A
photojournalist who covered the school’s
desegregation in 1957 returns forty years later for
another look at Central High.
LC214.23
.L56 .C68 1999x
MY
SOUL IS A WITNESS: A CHRONOLOGY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS
ERA, 1954-1965 by Bettye Collier-Thomas
and V.P Franklin.
E185.61
C697 2000
TO
MAKE OUR WORLD ANEW: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN
AMERICANS edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and
Earl Lewis.
This
book chronicles African Americans from the arrival
of African slaves in 1502 to the present.
E185
.T68 2000
This
selected list was compiled by:
Marylou
Coveney, Dudley Branch
Denise
DeBoer, Fields Corner Branch
Jacqueline
Hogan, Grove Hall Branch
Kathy
Kire, Teen Services
Parker
Hill Branch
Amy
Manson, Connolly Branch
Margaret
Phillibert, General Library, Adult Services
Richard
Wintergreen, Adams Street Branch
Joseph
Wisniewski, Codman Square Branch
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