Skip to Main Content

Black History Month: eBooks

Recommended reading and viewing from the library's collection in celebration of Black History Month.

eBooks

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. du Bois

Mainstreaming Black Power

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

Michelle Obama in Her Own Words

Kindred

Remaking Black Power: how black women transformed an era

Home to Harlem

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

My Bondage and My Freedom

Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism

The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America

Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male.

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge

The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-century America

Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939

Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South

Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology

Freedom's Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation

Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

The Journey to the Promised Land: The African American Struggle for Development since the Civil War

The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop

Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

Today's Hours

Contact Us

  reference@desales.edu

       610-282-1100 x1266

     @Desales_Trexler