AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY/EXPERIENCE
IN NON-FICTION
Call Number Author Title
J 301.451 DuBois The Writings of W.E.B. DuBois
(1975)
J 301.451 Meltzer In Their Own Words: A History of the
American Negro (1964)
J 301.452 Lester To Be a Slave (1968)
J 306.362 Rappaport No More! Stories and Songs of Slave
Resistance (2002)
J 323.1 Haskins March on Washington (1993)
J 326 Jackson The Black Man in America (Vol.
1-5)
(1970)
J 394.268 Hoyt-Goldsmith Celebrating Kwanzaa (1993)
J 394.268 Pinkney Seven Candles for Kwanzaa
(1993)
J 398.2082 Hamilton Her Stories (1995)
J 398.208996 Lester Last Tales of Uncle Remus
(1994)
J 398.208996 Medearis Freedom Riddle (1995)
J 398.208996 Sanfield The Adventures of High John the
Conqueror
(1989)
J 398.2096 Williams And in the Beginning (1992)
J 700.89 ----- Children of Promise
(1991)
J 759.13 Lawrence Great Migration: An American Story (1993)
J 780.8996 Igus I See the Rhythm (1998)
J 782.25 ----- All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of
African
American Spirituals (1991)
J 784.75 Glass Songs and Stories of
Afro-Americans (1971)
J 796.357 Gardner Forgotten Players (1993)
J 796.357 Golenbock Teammates (1990)
J 810.8 Rollins Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas
Poems (1993)
J 811 Lawrence Harriet and the Promised Land
(pre-2) (1993
J 811 Merriam I am a Man: Ode to Martin Luther King
(1971)
J 811.08 ----- Pass it On: African American Poetry for
Children (1993)
J 811.5 ----- My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black
Poetry (1994)
J 811.54 Adoff All the Colors of the Race
(1982)
J 811.54 Giovanni Spin a Soft Black Song (1985)
J 811.54 Greenfield Night on Neighborhood Street (1991)
J 811.54 Little Children of Long Ago (1988)
J 811.54 Myers Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and
Verses (1993)
J 811.54 Thomas Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
(1993)
J 812 Childress When the Rattlesnake Sounds
(1975)
J 812.08 Henderson Walk Together: Five Plays on Human Rights
(1972)
J 812.54 ----- Plays of Black Americans
(1987)
J 812.54 Davis Escape to Freedom (1978)
J 920.0092 Altman Extraordinary Black
Americans: From
Colonial to Contemporary Times (1988)
J 920.0092 Turner Take a Walk in Their Shoes
(1989)
J 920.0092 Richardson Great Black Americans (1976)
J 920.075 Hurmence Slavery Time When I Was Chillun
(1997)
J 920.078 Pelz Black Heroes of the Wild
West (1990)
J 925 Haber Black Pioneers of Science
and Invention
(1970)
J 940.4 Cooper Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in
World War I (1997)
J 966.3 Barboza Door of No Return (1994)
J 970.3 Johnson Seminole Diary: Remembrances of a Slave
(1994)
J 973 King Oh Freedom! (1997)
J 973 Myers Now is Your Time: African American
Struggle for Freedom (1991)
J 973 Smead Afro-Americans (1989)
J 973.0496 Rappaport Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to
Freedom (1991)
J 973.34 Davis Black Heroes of the American
Revolution
(1976)
J 973.7 Hamilton Many Thousand Gone (1993)
J 973.7 Haskins Black, Blue and Gray (1998)
J 973.7444 Cox Undying Glory (1991)
J 974.71 Hansen Breaking Ground, Breaking
Silence (1998)
J 974.8 Thomas Life in the Ghetto (13 yr old author)
(1991)
J 975 Bial Strength of These Arms
(1997)
J 975.8 Branch The Water Brought Us (1995)
J 978.1 Chu Going Home to Nicodemus
(1994)
JR 809 Murphy Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for
Children
and Young Adults (1999)
JR 973.04 ----- Ebony Pictorial History
of Black America
(Volumes
1-4) (1971)
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