Have you seen Cudahy Library’s display of books and DVDs for Black History Month? Located on the 1st floor near the New Books shelf, this display highlights some of our favorite resources. This is just a tiny fraction of what is available in our collection, so check out our Black World Studies research guide or ask a librarian if you’d like to explore more!
On Display:
Books:
Invisible Man / Ellison, Ralph
PS 3568 .E793 E7 1992
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes Were Watching God : A Casebook / edited by Cheryl A. Wall.
PS3515 .U789 T639 2000
Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison.
PS 3563 .O8749 S6
Kindred / Octavia E. Butler
PS3552 .U827 K5 1988
The Illustrated Souls of Black Folk / W.E.B. Du Bois
E185.6 .D797 2005
The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
E185.6 .W685 2010
Dark Days, Bright nights : From Black Power to Barack Obama / Peniel E. Joseph.
E185.615 .J677 2010
Dark Journey : Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow / Neil R. McMillen.
E185.93 .M6 M33 1989
The Greatest, My Own Story / Muhammad Ali, with Richard Durham.
GV 1132 .A44 A33 1975
Satchmo Blows Up the World : Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War / Penny M. Von Eschen.
ML3795 .V63 2006
Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans / Thomas Brothers.
ML419 .A75 B78 2006
Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait
GV 865 .R6 R592 1996
DVDs:
Blacking Up : Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity
046-03295
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
046-03268
The Color Purple
046-01994
Do the Right Thing
046-00201 AB
Other Suggested Titles:
March. Book one / [written by] John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
E840.8.L43 L48 2013
Sweet land of liberty : the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North / Thomas J. Sugrue.
E185.9 .S95 2008
The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America / Nicholas Lemann.
E 185.6 .L36 1991
Roots / Alex Haley.
E 185.97 .H24 A33
I’ve got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle / Charles M. Payne
E185.93 .M6 P39 2007
This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s / Gerald L. Early.
E185.615 .E16 2003
Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr / Michael Vinson Williams.
F349 .J13 W55 2011
The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley.
E185.97 .L5 A3 1999
For the love of the game : my story / by Michael Jordan
GV 884 .J67 A28 1998 (Cudahy Oversize, Deck C)
Jackie Robinson : a biography / Arnold Rampersad.
GV 865 .R6 R34 1997
Coltrane : the story of a sound / Ben Ratliff.
ML419 .C645 R37 2007
So what : the life of Miles Davis / John Szwed.
ML419 .D39 S98 2002
