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Library Displays | Black History Month

Books and resources from themed monthly displays in Raugust Library.

Celebrate Black History Month with Raugust Library

white tile, black text reading "Black History Month"Black History Month celebrates the history, culture, contributions, struggles, and triumphs of the African American Community in the US. It was first celebrated as a weeklong event in February 1926 and expanded to a month in the 1970s.

The books featured here include

  • History, culture, and criticism
  • Children's and YA/teen literature
  • Fiction, poetry, and memoir

 

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Books on Display

The Dead Are Arising Cover Image
A Little Devil in America Cover Image
The 1619 Project Cover Image
Antiracist Baby Board Book Cover Image
Four Hundred Souls Cover Image
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist Cover Image
How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image
The New Jim Crow Cover Image
Between the World and Me Cover Image
Born a Crime Cover Image
Just Mercy Cover Image
The Warmth of Other Suns Cover Image
The Black Prairie Archives Cover Image
Becoming Cover Image
Somewhere in the Darkness Cover Image
Bad Boy Cover Image
Communion Cover Image
Where We Stand Cover Image
Rock My Soul Cover Image
Happy to Be Nappy Cover Image
The Bluest Eye Cover Image
To Make Our World Anew Cover Image
Darkest America Cover Image
Life upon These Shores Cover Image
How Blacks Built America Cover Image
And Still I Rise Cover Image
The Making of Black Lives Matter Cover Image
Autobiography (LH13) Cover Image
Zora and Langston Cover Image
Their Eyes Were Watching God Cover Image
Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
Native Son Cover Image
Richard Wright Cover Image
Black Boy Cover Image
Richard Wright: Early Works (LOA #55) Cover Image
When Harriet Met Sojourner Cover Image
Frederick's Journey Cover Image
The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass Cover Image
Black Power Cover Image
The Black Panthers Cover Image
Martin Luther King :
Martin Luther King Jr. , Heroism, and African American Literature Cover Image
Birmingham Revolution Cover Image
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Cover Image
Malcolm X Cover Image
All Deliberate Speed Cover Image
The Source of Self-Regard Cover Image
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) Cover Image
If Beale Street Could Talk Cover Image
Rosa Parks Cover Image
March cover art