16 Books to Read for Black History Month
From great triumphs to continuing struggles, learn more about African American history with these books.
By
Sarah Mangiola, Catherine Phelan & Kara Brand | Updated Feb 9, 2021 | Published Feb 23, 2018The Children
By David Halberstam
The Warmth of Other Suns
By Isabel Wilkerson
A Black Women's History of the United States
By Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
MLK: An American Legacy
By David J. Garrow
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The Black Calhouns
By Gail Lumet Buckley
Major Taylor
By Conrad Kerber
Dear Benjamin Banneker
By Andrea Davis Pinkney
Honorary White
By E. R. Braithwaite
Paul Robeson
By Martin Duberman
A Slave No More
By David W. Blight
From Slave Ship to Harvard
By James H. Johnston
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Story of Ruby Bridges
By Robert Coles
The New Jim Crow
By Michelle Alexander
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
By Alex Haley
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