Incoming Resources
- The ABCs of Black history, words by Rio Cortez; pictures by Lauren Semmer
- From slavery to freedom, a history of African Americans, John Hope Franklin, Evelyn Higginbotham
- Still I rise, a graphic history of African Americans, Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird ; illustrations by Elihu "Adolfo" Bey ; foreword by Charles Johnson ; historical consultants, Earl Lewis, Nell Painter
- Generations of captivity, a history of African-American slaves, Ira Berlin
- Creating Black Americans, African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present, Nell Irvin Painter
- The souls of Black folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois ; introduction by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr
- Making Black America, through the grapevine, a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media and WETA Washington, DC ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; producer, Kevin Burke ; directors, Stacey L. Holman, Shayla Harris ; series producer, Stacey L. Holman ; producer, Shayla Harris
- How the word is passed, a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation, Robert J. Norrell
- The souls of Black folk, W.E.B. Du Bois ; introduction by Herb Boyd
- American founders, how people of African descent established freedom in the new world, Christina Proenza-Coles ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers
- Lift every voice, the NAACP and the making of the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Sullivan
- Lift every voice, African American oratory, 1787-1900, edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert J. Branham
- Blacks in America, 1954-1979, by Florence Jackson
- How the word is passed, a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
- The Young Oxford history of African Americans, Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis, general editors
- African American historic places, National Register of Historic Places ; edited by Beth L. Savage ; editorial director, Carol D. Shull ; editorial assistant, Rama Ramakrishna
- One drop, shifting the lens on race, Yaba Blay ; with photography direction by Noelle Théard
- Hard road to freedom, the story of African America, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- African American almanac, 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence, Lean'tin Bracks ; foreword by Jesse Carney Smith
- African American chronology, by Alton Hornsby, Jr. and Deborah Gillan Straub
- African Americans, voices of triumph, by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- The Columbia guide to African American history since 1939, edited by Robert L. Harris, Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
- Making Roots, a nation captivated, Matthew F. Delmont
- Up from Slavery, an autobiography, by Booker T. Washington ; introduction by Wayne LaPierre
- Chicken soup for the African American soul, celebrating and sharing our culture one story at a time, Jack Canfield ... [et al.]
- An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States, Kyle T. Mays
- The long shadow, produced by Sally Holst, Jed Riffe and Frances Causey ; written/directed by Frances Causey
- Black movements in America, Cedric J. Robinson
- Stony the road, Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- The historical and cultural atlas of African Americans, Molefi K. Asante, Mark T. Mattson
- Four hundred souls, a community history of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- The sounds of slavery, discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech, Shane White and Graham White
- Life upon these shores, looking at African American history, 1513-2008, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- A pictorial history of African Americans, Langston Hughes ... [et al.]
- Dark sky rising, Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr with Tonya Bolden
- 1001 things everyone should know about African American history, Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Heart and soul, the story of America and African Americans, words and paintings by Kadir Nelson
- Dark sky rising, Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with Tonya Bolden
- The African American years, Gabriel Burns Stepto
- Aristocrats of color, the Black elite, 1880-1920, Willard B. Gatewood
- The souls of black folk, W. E. B. Du Bois
- Philip Reid saves the Statue of Freedom, Steven Sellers Lapham & Eugene Walton ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- The struggle for freedom, a history of African Americans, Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash
- Chocolate cities, the Black map of American life, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson
- The Bantu speaking heritage of the United States, by Winifred Kellersberger Vass ; foreword by Baruch Elimelech
- Voices of black America, [historical recordings of speeches, poetry, humor & drama]
- African voices in the African American heritage, Betty M. Kuyk
- Forty years a guinea pig, E. Frederic Morrow
- Four hundred souls, a community history of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi, and Keisha N. Blain