Celebrate Black History
Celebrate Black History Month at the SCC Library
Breath, Eyes, Memory
by, Edwidge Danticat
PS3554. A5815 B74 1994
This novel is told by Sophie, a young Haitian American girl. Sophie follows her mother to the United States from Haiti. As her mother finds work, Sophie must come to terms with the conflicts of growing up in New York.
Escape to Freedom: a Play About Young Frederick Douglass
by, Ossie Davis
PS3507. A74444 E84 1990
Frederick Douglass became the first black man to hold a diplomatic office. This book emphasizes his contributions to black history.
The Darker Face of the Earth: a Play
by, Rita Dove
PS3554. O884 D68 2000
This book uncovers the tragedy of interracial love on a plantation during the pre-Civil War in South Carolina. A rich white woman who gives birth to a slave’s child.
The Good House
by, Tananarive Due
PS3554. U3413 2003
This novel centers on a haunted house under a deadly family curse. Angela Toussaint returns to her dead grandmother’s house seeking to heal her relationships with her son and husband. What planned to be a family retreat becomes destruction, Angela must somehow uncover the secrets of her unknown heritage before everything is lost.
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