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