TPL presents Black History Celebration Collection

The Reference Department at the Terrebonne Parish Library System put together a collection of books in celebration of Black History Month. The list includes both fiction and non-fiction books for all ages that are available through TPL!

Non-Fiction:

• How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America by Smith, Clint
• Lifting as we climb : black women’s battle for the ballot box by Dionne, Evette

• An African American Dilemma by Zoe Burkholder

• All boys aren’t blue : a memoir-manifesto by Johnson, George M.
• The Yellow House by Broom, Sarah M.
• A house built by slaves : African American visitors to the Lincoln White House by White, Jonathan W.

• The African American Soldier by Lt. Col. Ret. Michael Lee Lanning

• Augusta Savage : the shape of a sculptor’s life by Nelson, Marilyn
• Black Ballerinas by Copeland, Misty
• The First Black Archaeologist : a life of John Wesley Gilbert by Lee, John W. I.
• African founders : how enslaved people expanded American freedom by Fischer, David Hackett
• How to Raise an Antiracist [electronic resource (eBook)] by Kendi, Ibram X.

Fiction:

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Yinka, where is your huzband? by Blackburn, Lizzie Damilola

• What We Found in Hallelujah by Vanessa Miller

• Things We Couldn’t Say by Coles, Jay
• This Close to Okay : a novel by Cross-Smith, Leesa
• The survivalists : a novel by Cauley, Kashana
• Black enough : stories of being young & black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
• Girl, Woman, Other [electronic resource (eBook)] by Evaristo, Bernardine

• That Dangerous Energy by Aya de León