Books for Black History Month

February is Black History month. Check out the titles below to see some of the library's most recent ebooks about Black History or visit the library during our in-person hours to see our print book display.

For a deeper experience, please visit SBCC's Umoja Center for information about related activities on campus, take a look at our Professional Development Libraries to learn more about equity in education, or choose a workshop from SBCC's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training Options. 

Haymarket Books also has free ebooks available in support of black history and the freedom to read diverse literature.

Some Recent eBooks:

• Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
  by Francesca T. Royster, 2022
• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
  by Mary-Frances Winters, 2020
• Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject
  by Mandela Gray, 2022
• Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
  by Psyche A. Williams-Forson, 2022
• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, 2022
• The Idea of Prison Abolition
  by Tommie Shelby, 2022
• Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
  by Alison Mariella Désir, 2022
• Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
  by Danyel Smith, 2021
• They Got Daddy: One Family's Reckoning with Racism and Faith
  by Sharon Tubbs, 2023
• The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era
  by Chris Joyner, 2022
• Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America
  by Jimmie R. Hawkins, 2022
• Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
  by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, 2022
• The Young Black Leader’s Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs: What the Giants Want You to Know
  by Aaron S. Williams, et al., 2022

More eBooks:

• To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
  by Jonathan W. White and Edna Greene Medford, 2021
• African Americans in Indianapolis: The Story of a People Determined to Be Free
  by David L. Williams, 2022
• The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
  by L. H. Stallings, 2021
• Antiblackness
  by Moon-Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas, 2021
• Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965
  by Cherisse Jones-Branch, 2021
• Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
  by Bryant Terry, 2021
• A Black Intellectual's Odyssey From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League
  by Martin Kilson, et al., 2021
• Booker T. Washington
  by Mark Christian, 2021
• Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry
  by Brian G. Shellum, 2021
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, 2021
• Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
  by Jarvis R. Givens, 2021
• Jackie Robinson: A Life in American History
  by Courtney Michelle Smith, 2021
• Jesse Owens
  by F. Erik Brooks, et al., 2021
• A Letter to my White Friends and Colleagues: What You Can do Right Now to Help the Black Community
  by Steven S. Rogers, 2021
• Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow
  by Steven S. Rogers, 2020
• Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
  by Erin Austin Dwyer, 2021
• More Than our Pain: Affect and Emotion in the Era of Black Lives Matter
  by Beth Hinderliter and Steve Peraza, 2021
• Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
  by Richard A. Courage, et al., 2021
• Rosa Parks: A Life in American History
  by Darryl Mace, 2021
• Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
  by Kevin M. Levin, 2019
• Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time
  by Susan Delson, 2021
• Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970
  by Laura Warren Hill, 2021
• Teaching Black History to White People
  by Leonard N. Moore, 2021
• Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition
  by Schomburg Center and Michelle D. Commanderd, 2021
• West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line
  by Lynn M. Hudson, 2020
• Whose Blues?: Facing up to Race and the Future of the Music
  by Adam Gussow, 2020
• William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
  by William C. Kashatus, 2021
• You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience -- An Anthology
  by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown, 2021