Celebrate Black History Month | Yavapai Library Network

1) Illustrated Black history: honoring the iconic and the unseen

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"A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more--with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Illustrated Black History is a breathtaking collection of original portraits depicting black heroes--both famous and unsung--who made their mark on activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology,...

2) Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019

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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...

3) We were eight years in power: an American tragedy

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award,...

4) The Black joy project

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Cruz, Kleaver

5) Blue skies, black wings: African American pioneers of aviation

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Broadnax, Samuel L

6) Hidden figures: the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

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Shetterly, Margot Lee

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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.

7) Hidden women: the African-American mathematicians of NASA who helped America win the space race

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Rissman, Rebecca

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Includes stories about Katherine Johnson, Miriam Mann, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn, Annie Easley, and Christine Darden.

8) African American women chemists

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Brown, Jeannette E

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9) The disordered cosmos: a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred

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Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda

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"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to...

10) The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country

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Gates, Henry Louis

11) Black wings

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A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.

12) Kimberly Bryant: founder of Black Girls Code

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Hulick, Kathryn

13) The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activism in the north

14) Lockheed, Atlanta, and the struggle for racial integration

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Patton, Randall L

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"Lockheed, Atlanta, and the struggle for racial integration tells the story of business/government equal employment opportunity policies by examining Georgia's Lockheed Aircraft, 1950-1990 ... This book connects the local story of workplace desegregation to national narratives of civil rights reform; affirmative action; the role of government and public/private partnerships; and the business reaction to both state intervention in employment generally...

15) The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

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Skloot, Rebecca

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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...

16) More than a game: a history of the African American experience in sport

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Wiggins, David Kenneth

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"More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race" --

17) The affirmative action puzzle: a comprehensive and honest exploration of one of the most controversial legal and social issues in US history

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Urofsky, Melvin I

18) An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States

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Mays, Kyle T

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The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel...

19) Historical dictionary of African American cinema

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Berry, Torriano

20) Black AF history: the un-whitewashed story of America

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Harriot, Michael

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"From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log...