Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Rebecca Hawk, Richard Harrison, Megan Haught, Rich Gause, Emma Gisclair, Sara Duff, Christina Wray, Jacqueline Johnson, Rachel Mulvihill, Sandy Avila, Athena Hoeppner, and Brian Calhoun.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, lib-edi, reading, black history
Description
Here at UCF Libraries we believe that knowledge is key to living a good life and that sharing information benefits everyone. This is why our featured bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to having difficult conversations about racism and American History.
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 UCF Libraries we believe that knowledge is key to living a good life and that sharing information benefits everyone. This is why our featured bookshelf suggestions range from celebrating outstanding African Americans to having difficult conversations about racism and American History. We are proud to present our top 24 favorite books by, and/or about, African Americans.
Keep reading to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the Black History Month titles suggested by UCF Library employees. These 24 books plus many, many more are also on display on the 2nd (main) floor of the John C. Hitt Library next to the bank of two elevators. Blu-rays and DVDs for documentaries and popular films are also included in the display.
Date Created
2-1-2019
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: 2019 Black History Month" (2019). Featured Bookshelf. 47.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/47