Stop by to check out the Black History Month book display set up by Library Clerk Lois at NOPL Brewerton through February! Lois explained, “The display contains books in two categories — those that recount the achievements of famous Black Americans, and those that chronicle the oppression that Black Americans have endured over the centuries in this country. At a time when national parks are removing accounts of slavery from their displays in an attempt to downplay this part of American history, I felt it was very important to include both. As the saying goes, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ – George Santayana from his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905”
If a book you’re interested in has already been borrowed from the display, you can visit the OCPL catalog to borrow another copy or place a hold. Just click the title or book cover below.
We Shall Overcome, by Herb Boyd
This dramatic evocation of the forever poignant and courageous struggle of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is told in words, pictures, and the voices of participants, and is accompanied by two audio CDs narrated by Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee.
Life’s Too Short: a memoir by Darius Rucker
Raised by a single mother in Charleston, South Carolina, Darius Rucker founded Hootie & the Blowfish with three classmates at the University of South Carolina in 1986. What began as a party band playing frat houses and dive bars quickly became a global rock pop phenomenon.
Also available as an audiobook (MP3 & CD)
My Remarkable Journey, by Katherine G. Johnson
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change.
Also available in Large Print and as an ebook & audiobook (MP3 & CD)
Lovely One (adapted for young adults), by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, chronicles her life story and her extraordinary path to becoming a jurist on America’s highest court in this inspiring, intimate memoir.
Also available as an E-Book
Four Hundred Souls: a community history of African America, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
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. This book contains the writings of eighty black writers from many disciplines — historians and artists, journalists and novelists–each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period.
Also available in Large Print & as an Ebook, Playaway Digital Audio, MP3 Audiobook
His Truth is Marching On : John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother’s unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father’s tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also available in Large Print & as an audiobook (MP3 & CD)
