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Black History Month Resource Guide

Reading Recommendations in Celebration of Black History Month

Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America by Bernadette Atuahene

Black History Month 2023: Comprehensive Reading List from the Drexel University Libraries

A Legacy to Share : Navigating Life's Challenges & Celebrating Our Greatest Achievements Drexel University Black Alumni Council

They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia's Black Women Leaders : Allener M. Baker-Rogers, Fasaha M. Traylor

Let your motto be resistance : African American portraits Willis, Deborah

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

John Lewis: Good Trouble [film]

Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people : Magoon, Kekla

How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee River Collective : Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta

Freedom libraries: the untold story of libraries for African Americans in the South : Selby, Mike

In resistance: studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American history : Okihiro, Gary Y.

Black freedom, white resistance, and red menace: civil rights and anticommunism in the Jim Crow South : Katagiri, Yasuhiro

Wounds of the spirit : Black women, violence, and resistance ethics : West, Traci C.

Black womanhood: images, icons, and ideologies of the African body

A Panther is a black cat : Major, Reginald

Faith Ringgold : Farrington, Lisa E.; Ringgold, Faith

The shadow of the panther : Huey Newton and the price of Black power in America: Pearson, Hugh.

Africaville : Colvin, Jeffrey

Other Guides, Collections & Reading Lists

13 Pioneering Black American Librarians You Oughta Know [Bookriot]
2023 African American Booklist [Detroit Public Library]
28 Days of Black History [Anti-Racism Daily]
A Research Guide to Black Librarianship at the Schomburg Center [NYPL Guide]
ACLS Humanities eBooks
ASALH Negro History Bulletin [JSTOR]
Black Film Archive by Maya S. Cade
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Black Futures Month
Black History Month Resource Round-up [ALA Programming Librarian]
Black Studies: African American and Pan African Diaspora [UCLA Guide]
Blackest Book Club Book List
BlackPast.org
Commemorating Black History Month: A Choice Resource Round-Up (2023)
Commemorating Black History Month with TIE and Choice Content (2024)
Commemorating Black History Month with TIE and Choice Content (2025)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards List [American Library Association]
Documentary Film to Spotlight Black Librarianship [School Library Journal]
Ethnic NewsWatch
Examining Black History Month Programming in Public Libraries [University of Michigan]
International African American Museum
Land, Wealth, Liberation: The Making and Unmaking of Black Wealth in the U.S. [IU Guide]
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences LibGuide: Black History Month
ProQuest One Literature: Black Writing Collection
ProQuest Historical New Amsterdam News
ProQuest Historical Philadelphia Tribune
Resources for Understanding and Engaging with Afrofuturism [Choice: Toward Inclusive Excellence (TIE)]
Resources on Race & Disability [Black, Disabled and Proud]
Taylor & Francis Celebrates Black History Month: Free Chapter Sampler
Umbra Search
Word In Black
What a Wonderful World: Celebrating Black Artists & Culture

Last Updated: Oct 29, 2025 3:47 PM
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