Black History Month

February is Black History Month and the Cuyahoga Falls Library has hundreds of resources to share. The library remains committed to developing a diverse collection, representing a wide range of perspectives. Here are a few titles that celebrate black voices and Black history in America.

Roots / Alex Haley.
Native Son / Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad
The Bluest Eye / by Toni Morrison.
The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead.
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America’s great migration / Isabel Wilkerson
The Color of Compromise : the truth about the American church’s complicity in racism / Jemar Tisby
Their eyes were watching God : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Mary Helen Washington.
The changeling : a novel / by Victor LaValle.
Invisible man / Ralph Ellison.
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin.
How long ’til black future month? / Stories / N. K. Jemisin
March / Graphic Novel Series / John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Run / Graphic Novel / John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

28 days : Moments in Black History that Changed the World / Charles R. Smith Jr. ;illustrated by Shane W. Evans
The ABCs of Black History / words by Rio Cortez; pictures by Lauren Semmer

Hand in Hand : Ten Black Men Who Changed America / by Andrea Davis Pinkney paintings by Brian Pinkney
Little Leaders : Bold Women in Black History / Vashti Harrison
The Undefeated / by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
What is the Civil Rights Movement? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley
Young, Gifted and Black : Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present / words by Jamia Wilson illustrated by Andrea Pippins

Cool Cuts / written & illustrated by Mechal Renee Roe
A Girl Like Me / Angela Johnson (local author-lives in Kent)
Going Down Home with Daddy / written by Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
Hands up! / by Breanna J. McDaniel ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Magnificent Homespun Brown : A Celebration / written by Samara Cole Doyon ; illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
Me & Mama / Cozbi A. Cabrera
Overground Railroad / Lesa Cline-Ransome, James Ransome

Black Heroes of the Wild West / a toon graphic by James Otis Smith, introduction by Kadir Nelson
New Kid and Class Act / Jerry Craft

Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel / James Patterson and Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
Before the Ever After / Jacqueline Woodson
Blended / Sharon M. Draper
Genesis Begins Again / Alicia D. Williams
King and the Dragonflies / Kacen Callender
Loretta Little Looks Back : Three Voices Go Tell It : A Monologue Novel / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrations by Brian Pinkney
The Only Black Girls in Town / by Brandy Colbert
What Lane? / Torrey Maldonado

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