Thursday, February 9, 2017

February Is African Heritage Month











CEC Library Resources

Black Fiction:

A Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Waiting To Exhale by Terry McMillan
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz

Biographies:

Black in the White House: Life Inside George W. Bush’s West Wing by Ron Christie
Black Women Who Made A Difference in Nova Scotia edited by Dolly Williams
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Grant Fuhr: The Story of a Hockey Legend by Grant Fuhr
Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Life, Martyrdom, and Meaning for the World by William Robert Miller
My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King
Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley
Political Profiles: Michelle Obama by Jeff C. Young
Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
Sister To Courage: Stories From The World of Viola Desmond by Wanda Robson
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon Tattrie
They Had A Dream by Jules Archer
Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup

Websites





This site contains the following: 500 Notable African American Biographies; Quizzes & Crosswords; African-American Quotations; Contemporary Issues and History and Timelines.

Contains video clips, speeches, and a history of the civil rights struggle.



Presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.



This site, Nova Scotia Museum site, explores the years between 1783 and 1785, when more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia as a direct result of the American Revolution.