Black History Month – Embrace the Present

Celebrate Black History Month @ the SCC Libraries…..

Non-Fiction Collection

The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the

Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television

by Brett Pulley  HE8700.8 .P85 2004

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Ida: A Sword among Lions; Ida B. Wells and the

Campaign against Lynching

by Paula Giddings  E185.97 .W55 G53 2008

Journalist, Ida B. Wells, not always celebrated by

contemporaries because of her difficult personality,

crusaded against lynching, not least by revealing the

connection between racism and sexuality.

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Come on, People!: on the Path from Victims to Victors

by Bill Cosby  E185.625 .C75 2007

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Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to

Power by Marcus Mabry  E840.8 .R48 M33 2007

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Letter to My Daughter

by Maya Angelou PS3551. N464 Z468 2008

Maya Angelou dedicated this book to the daughter she never had but sees all around her. This book reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living  a meaningful life. This book transcends genres and categories (guidebook, poetry, and memior).

Fiction Collection

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

This novel reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. This is a disturbing story of a mother who abandons her daughter in order to save her from a life of slavery.

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.