Town Of Pelham Public Library: Black History Resources For Children And Adults

Press release from Town of Pelham Public Library:

2022-01-26

In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of books, music, movies, and other resources that you can find at the library or in our digital collections. In addition to the resources below, you can also check out the White Plains Library’s excellent African American Trailblazers collection, their #BlackJoy Picture Books collection, and of course, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards! (Have you read all the 2021 winners yet?) 

At the Library

Children

Teens

Adults

Movies

Borrow Online

Overdrive

Hoopla

Kanopy

A Son of Africa: the Autobiography of a Slave

Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom

Alice’s Ordinary People

Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin

America’s Long Struggle Against Slavery

Anita: Speaking Truth to Power

bell hooks

Birth of a Movement

Black Indians: An American Story

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution

Buffalo Soldiers

The Central Park Five

Eyes on the Prize

February One: The 1960 Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins

Freedom Summer

The Girls in the Band

I Am Not Your Negro

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket

Jimi Hendrix

Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man’s World

The Killing Floor

King: A Filmed Record 

Marcus Garvey: A Giant of Black Politics

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Slavery and the Making of America

Strange Fruit: the Biography of a Song

T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

Tongues United: Giving Voice to Black Gay Men

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

Untold West: the Black West

W.E.B. Du Boise: A Biography in Four Voices

This press release was produced by Town of Pelham Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.