Resources in the St. Luke Library

Black History Month (PDF)

For Adults and Teens:
(Maya Angelou)- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now; Heart of a Woman; Gather Together in My Name; Even the Stars Look Lonesome; and Song Flung up to Heaven.
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Sun Yung Shin, ed).
Beloved (Toni Morrison).
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates).
Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison).
Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (James McBride).
Color Purple (Alice Walker).
Days of Rondo: Warm Reminiscenses of St. Paul’s Black Community (Fairbanks, Evelyn).
Ghosts of Mississippi (Maryanne Vollers).
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Johnson, James Weldon).
Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir. Josie Johnson (MN).
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches (Martin Luther King).
Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Jesmyn Ward).
Roots (Alex Haley).
Slaves in the Family (Edward Ball).
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr: Selected by Coretta Scott King (Martin Luther King, Jr.).
DVDs: Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS).
Videos:
There are three book/video sets for teens about the civil rights movement by Teaching Tolerance: Mighty Times: Children's March; America's Civil Rights Movement; Shadow of Hate: History of Intolerance in America.
From Slavery to Freedom. Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks.
Malcolm X. Miss Jane Pittman.
Mama Flora’s Family (2-video set). Raisin' in the Sun.
Medgar Evers: For Us the Living. We Shall Overcome.

For Teens:
Biographies about MLK, Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
Becoming Myself: True stories about learning from life. (Cassandra Walker Simmons).
Her Stories: African American Folktales and Many Thousand Gone: African American from Slavery to Freedom. (Virginia Hamilton).
Oh, Freedom: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement (Casey King).
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and its sequels The Land; Let the Circle Be Unbroken; and Road to Memphis (Mildred Taylor).
Rites of Passage: Stories of Growing Up: African American Writers (Tonya Bolden).
Sweet Words So Brave: African American Literature (Barbara Curry).
They Dared to Cross Frontiers (King, Parks, Woolman, Douglas) (Faye De Beck Flynt). 

For Children:
Biographies about Ruby Bridges, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, and Harriet Tubman. Books about Kwanzaa.
Bus Ride (William Miller).
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Slavery) (Jeanette Winter).
Going Back Home: Artist Returns to South (Michelle Wood).
Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom (Sharon Dennis Wyeth).
Many Thousand Gone: African American from Slavery to Freedom (Virginia Hamilton).
More Stories Julian Tells (Ann Cameron).
Sweet Clara & the Freedom Quilt (Deborah Hopkinson).
White Socks Only (Evelyn Coleman).