Contributors
Suggestions for this list from: Sara Duff, Megan Haught, Nadia Fortune, Caroline Gray, Emma Gisclair, Sandy Avila, Peggy Nuhn, Rebecca Hammond, Jacqueline Johnson, Larry Cooperman, and Ven Basco.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, reading, lib-edi, diversity, black history
Description
Here at the library we are passionate about celebrating African American culture and history. We are proud to present our top 20 favorite books by, and/or about, African Americans.
Abstract
The national celebration of African American History was started by Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian and the founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and first celebrated as a weeklong event in February of 1926. After a half century of overwhelming popularity, the event was expanded to a full month in 1976 by President Gerald Ford.
Here at the library we are passionate about celebrating African American culture and history. We are proud to present our top 20 favorite books by, and/or about, African Americans.
Date Created
2-1-2018
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
STARS Citation
Haught, Megan M., "Featured Bookshelf: 2018 Black History Month" (2018). Featured Bookshelf. 20.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/20