Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Megan Haught, Mary Page, Min Tong, Sandy Avila, Susan MacDuffee, Rebecca Hammond, Larry Cooperman, Cindy Dancel, Richard Harrison, Peggy Nuhn, and Martha Cloutier.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, black history, reading, edi
Description
Here at the library we are passionate about celebrating African American culture and history (no seriously, I got a massive amount of emails with suggestions).
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 (no seriously, I got a massive amount of emails with suggestions). We are proud to present our top 22 favorite books by, and/or about, African Americans, plus two streaming films.
Date Created
2-1-2017
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: 2017 Black History Month" (2017). Featured Bookshelf. 9.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/9