Celebrate Black History Month …….

Celebrate Black History Month at the SCC Libraries:

Nonfiction:

America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Narrative History from the Nineteenth Century into the Twenty-First Century. By Bobby Lovett  LC2781 .L68 2011

Summary: Bobby Lovett researched the survival of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States. Readers will be able to trace the development and challenges of higher education in several African American institutions.

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. By Danielle McGuire  E185.61 .M4777 2010

Summary: Danielle McGuire brings a different perspective to the Rosa Parks’ story. The author researched reports of sexual assaults against black women in the south and how those actions motivated the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks is portrayed as a civil right activist for black women.

Also in the library……

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.  By David Remnick E908 .R46 2010

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship.  By Juliet Walker  HD2358.5 .U6 W345 2009   

We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.  By Kadir Nelson GV875 .A1 N45 2008

The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature.  By April Langley PS153 .N5 L35 2008