LibGuides: US History: African-Americans

Books in the collection

Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Call Number: 92 COL
ISBN: 0374313229
Publication Date: 2009
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Marching for freedom : Walk together, children, and don't you grow weary
Call Number: 323.11 PAR
ISBN: 0670011894
Publication Date: 2009
Recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Call Number: 364.152 WAL
ISBN: 9781604530445
Publication Date: 2008
Describes the events and historical significance of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.
Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history
Call Number: ODON 920 HAR
ISBN: 9780061261381
Publication Date: 2008
A collection of inspirational stories of African-American men and women who broke racial barriers and became pioneers in aviation.

Flight to Freedom
We hope you find this website educational. We warn you: it may not always be pleasant. We have taken from the pages of history — from the words of those who actually escaped servitude to write their own stories — in an effort to give voice to those who have remained for too long without a voice. The great abolitionist Wendell Phillips once said that only when men stopped writing history would the story of the lions be told. It is time to hear the tale of the lions.