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Black History Month- Adult Nonfiction

Read about the experience and lives of Black Americans. These are titles worth exploring all year long.

Arapahoe Libraries

21 items

  • All That She Carried

    the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    Miles, Tiya, 1970-
    BookNew York : Random House, 2021. — B ASHLEY
  • America on Fire

    the Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

    Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983-
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 305.800973 HINTON
  • The Black Church

    This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

    Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2021. — 277.300899 GATES
  • Black Food

    Stories, Art and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora

    BookCalifornia ; New York : 4 Color Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, [2021] — 394.120899 BLACK
  • Four Hundred Souls

    a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    BookNew York : One World, [2021] — 973.049607 FOUR
  • Hidden Figures

    the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

    Lee Shetterly, Margot,
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, [2016] — 510.9252 LEE SHETTERLY
  • How the Word Is Passed

    a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

    Smith, Clint,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — 973.049607 SMITH
  • BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — B KING
  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Alexander, Michelle,
    BookNew York : New Press, 2020. — 364.973 ALEXANDER
  • Say Their Names

    How Black Lives Came to Matter in America

    Bunn, Curtis,
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — 323.119607 BUNN
  • South to America

    a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    BookNew York, NY : ECCO, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 917.504 PERRY
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Reynolds, Jason,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — YA 305.800973 REYNOLDS
  • The Three Mothers

    How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

    Tubbs, Anna Malaika,
    BookNew York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021. — 306.874308 TUBBS
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

    Hall, Rebecca, 1963-
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 306.362082 HALL GRAPHIC NOVEL COLL
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    BookNew York : Random House, 2010. — 304.8 WILKERSON