Atkins' February 2020 book display celebrates Black History Month. Literature has been a space for black authors to share stories and readers can choose from an array of fiction, historical texts, essays, and memoirs. From literary icons to new talents, we're highlighting books you should add to your reading list today.
Hunger : a memoir of (my) body
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Black History in Its Own Words
I am not your Negro : a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck
Breathe : a letter to my sons
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The original Black elite : Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir
Bluff City : the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
Between the World and Me
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Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
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Color stories : black women and colorism in the 21st century
Standing in their own light : African American patriots in the American revolution
Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Becoming
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Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS effect : platform, presence, and agency
Getting what we need ourselves : how food has shaped African American life
Misty Copeland
Pioneering African-American women in the advertising business: Biographies of MAD Black WOMEN
Motherhood So White
Strange fruit. Volume II, More uncelebrated narratives from Black history
Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
Hurricane Child
Hair Love
Dear Martin
On the Come Up
The Journey of Little Charlie
The Parker Inheritance
Patina
Piecing me together
Trailblazer : a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology
A History of African American Poetry
Children of the night : the best short stories by Black writers
Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Three Days Before the Shooting
Red at the bone
The Yellow House
The Water Dancer: a novel
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Difficult Women
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
An American Marriage: a novel
How we fight for our lives : a memoir
We Cast a Shadow: a novel
The world doesn't require you : stories
Heads of the Colored People: stories
No One Is Coming to Save Us: a novel
American Spy: a novel
In West Mills: a novel
Atkins' February 2017 book display celebrated Black History Month, the culture & history, & highlighted important voices. Topics ranged from art to voting, & from biographies to great storytelling fiction.
The Black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
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Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
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The Presidency in Black and White: my up-close view of three presidents and race in America
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Who We Be: the colorization of America
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From Slavery to Freedom: a history of Negro Americans
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Warmth of Other Suns: the epic story of America's great migration
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Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
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Death of a King: the real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final year
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Assata: an autobiography
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Up from Slavery: an autobiography
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the politics of race in America
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Time on Two Crosses
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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Frederick's Journey
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Thriving in the Shadows: the Black experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
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Keep on walkin', keep on talkin' : an oral history of the Greensboro civil rights movement
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Black Gay Man: essays
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Sexual Discretion
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Not straight, not white : black gay men from the March on Washington to the AIDS crisis
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The Slave Ship
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Women, Race and Class
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Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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King : a comic book biography
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Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
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March. Book Three.
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Rhythm ride : a road trip through the Motown sound
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Trombone Shorty
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man
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Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
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Disgruntled: a novel
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Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird
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Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Blues people; Negro music in white America
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African American Masters: highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the first lady of the Black Press
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The Defender: how the legendary black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama
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Super Black: American pop culture and black superheroes
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
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The Illegal: a novel
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Things Fall Apart
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Memory of Kin: stories about family by black writers
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Annie Allen
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Black boy : a record of childhood and youth
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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The Price of the Ticket : Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
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Gorilla, My Love
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Kindred
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God Help the Child
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Paradise
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The Grey Album: on the blackness of blackness
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
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Hair Raising: beauty, culture, and African American women
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High on the Hog: a culinary journey from Africa to America
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Soul Food: the surprising story of an American cuisine, one plate at a time
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The Jemima Code: two centuries of African American cookbooks
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Atkins' February 2020 book display celebrates 
