Black History - Nonfiction

These true accounts of what African Americans have had to endure to shape American history is both tragic and inspiring. Celebrate African American History all year long with one of these books.

Crowe, Chris – Getting Away with Murder : The True Story of the Emmett till Case

Finlayson, Reggie – We Shall Overcome : the History of the American Civil Rights Movement

Flowers, A. R. – I See the Promised Land

Freedman, Russell – Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : The Story Behind an American Friendship

Hill, Laban Carrick – Harlem Stomp! : a Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne – To the Mountaintop! : My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement

Levinson, Cynthia – We've Got a Job : The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Moore, Wes – Discovering Wes Moore

Myers, Walter Dean – Bad Boy : a Memoir

Myers, Walter Dean – Malcolm X : By Any Means Necessary