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Reference Desk > Pathfinders > Celebrate Black History Month
Celebrate Black History
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                                           February
      
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Mirror to America: The autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin-read by the author
 
VN-CD REDI SSH R 79
The Slave Ship A human History by Marcus Rediker-read by David Drummond
  
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Martin Luther King, JR. by Marshall Frady
 
B KING, M. KING
 
305.8 POTTER
 
323.4 WILLIAMS
 
J811.54 NELSON
Freedom Business: The freedom business: including A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa by Marilyn Nelson
 
 
    
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When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, the Reverend Martin Luther King was but a modest young Baptist minister suddenly thrust into the leadership of local bus boycott. What started as a one-day protest of unfair bus laws turned into the 381-day boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
 
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The Express: the Ernie Davis Story
Based on the real-life story of college football hero Ernie Davis, The Express will remind some moviegoers of the heart-tugging Brian's Song. Ernie Davis was a star athlete at Syracuse University and the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. Unlike other winners of that era, he wasn't allowed to attend his banquet dinner because the venue didn't serve blacks. He died of leukemia at the age of 23 in 1963. That element of his story is well known to football fans.
 
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Proud
Based on the true and heroic story of the USS Mason, a Navy battleship manned by an African-American crew during WWII, when segregation was still enforced. Based on the book by Mary Pat Kelly. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Roots
From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant.
 
 
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Something the Lord Made
It begins in 1930s Nashville when imperious cardiac surgeon Blalock hires Thomas, an African American carpenter, as his janitor. When the latter reveals a passion for medicine and facility with surgical instruments, Blalock promotes him to lab tech. Thomas isn't given a raise, works side jobs to make ends meet, and is expected to be grateful. Along the way, he follows Blalock from Vanderbilt to Johns Hopkins, where they save thousands of lives through their pioneering work, but will Thomas ever get any credit?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave narratives The material used for this beautifully made HBO documentary dates back to the 1930s, when journalists conducted thousands of interviews with former slaves who'd been emancipated at the end of the Civil War. A selection of these faithfully transcribed "slave narratives" are vividly read (acted, really) here by a host of distinguished performers, ranging from Samuel L. Jackson to Oprah Winfrey, from Don Cheadle to Angela Bassett, with narration by Whoopi Goldberg.
 
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New York noir: the history of black New York  This critically acclaimed film examines the history of New York's African-American citizens and culture from the early 1600s through today. Featured are segments on civil rights, politics, business, military heroes, the Harlem Renaissance and much more. Above all else, the film honors and pays tribute to the many great contributions African-Americans have made to New York the nation and indeed, the world.
 
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Rising From the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter  Chronicles the relatively unheralded Pullman Porters, generations of African American men who served as caretakers to wealthy white passengers on luxury trains that traversed the nation in the golden age of rail travel.
 
796.83 U
Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson  Even though this 220-minute production is a biographyon heavyweight champion Jack Johnsonthe film resonates about the how race was dealt with in the early part of the 20th century. Here's a man so smart and patient in the ring who took great liberties in his day-to-day life, unafraid to showcase his success, and ruffle the morals of the time (including, most scandalously, marrying a white woman). Viewing film of his prizefights, the amateur eye can understand Johnson's style and bravura.
   
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African American Lives hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. DuBois professor of the Humanities and chair of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, takes Alex Haley’s Roots saga to a whole new level. Using genealogy and DNA science, Dr. Gates tells the personal stories of eight accomplished African Americans, tracing their roots through American history and back to Africa. Participants include Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.

 

 
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African American Lives 2  hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  
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Nightfighters: The True Story of the 332nd Fighter Group, The Tuskegee Airmen The 332nd Fighter group has a unique place in the annals of WWII air force fighter groups. The group was completely Black and confounded the expectations and prejudices held by white Americans in the 1930's and 1940's, excelling as pilots and becoming a crack unit, accomplishing goals others couldn't.
 
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940.5481 A
 
973.049 A
African-American Leaders of the 20th Century
 
973.93 M
 
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Prince Among Slaves  Tells the true story of a little known African American hero, an African prince who was sold into slavery in the American South in 1788. His name was Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, and he remained enslaved for forty years, before ultimately regaininh his freedom and returning to Africa.
 
  
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Underground Railroad  The Underground Railroad, "the first civil rights movement," was no mere act of civil disobedience. The secret network of guides, pilots, and safe-house keepers (the Railroad's "conductors") was built by runaway slaves who, over the decades, communicated their experiences through songs and secret gestures, and were supported by abolitionists (many of them former slaves) who risked their own freedom to help free the enslaved. The "passengers" risked their lives.
 
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Eyes on Prize (6 video series)
 
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The Black Past: Remembered & Reclaimed 
 
The National Civil Rights Museum            
 www.civilrightsmuseum.org                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
The King Center
   
The National Association for the the Advancement of Colored People
 
The DuSable Museum of African-American Hisory
 
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
 
The George Washington Carver Cultural Center Phoenix, Arizona
 
 
Museum of African American History Boston, Massachuesetts
 
 
The Kelton House Museum and Garden Columbus, Ohio
 
The National Afro American Cultural Center near Dayton, Ohio
 
The Dunbar House  Dayton, Ohio
 
Monteith Home Elyria, Ohio
 
Sandusky's Underground Railroad Tour  Sandusky, Ohio
 
The King Arts Complex Columbus, Ohio

West African Art & Artifact Museum  Marietta, Ohio

 

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