Celebrate Black History Month

The Biography Channel has a great webpage dedicated to honoring Black History Month in February, with videos, timelines, and photos. For more reading on the subject, check out some of these titles recently added to the library collection:

Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights is a collection of memorable discourse delivered by historical and contemporary figures, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Condoleeza Rice.

Setting Down the Sacred Past by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp traces the formation of African-American religious identity by examining historical narratives.

Freedom Flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, by J. Todd Moye is a new look at the first group of black military pilots, with accounts from interviews done as part of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project.

The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the experiences of the millions of black citizens who moved from the South to the North between 1915 and 1970--the author's mother included among them.

In the fiction category, Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza is a saga spanning seven generations of women who use their musical gifts to help them survive the struggles they face.

For even more items on African-American history, visit the library catalog.