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. The Library of Congress also has collections of historic documents and resources.

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. 

Recent eBooks:

• The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
  by Mark Whitaker, 2025
• Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
  by Tre Johnson, 2025
• Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
  by Mary Frances Phillips, 2025
• Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
  by Sara Gallagher 2025
• Driven by the Movement: Reports From the Black Power Era
  by JoNina Abron-Ervin, 2025
• Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership
  by Kenja McCray, 2025
• Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
  by Ashley Howard, 2025
• Nursery Rhymes in Black: Poems
  by Latorial Faison, 2025
• The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
  by Calvin Schermerhorn, 2025
• Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
  by Katie Mitchell, 2025
• The Reclamation of Black Lives Matter in Education
  by Mack T. Hines III, 2025
• The Return of Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy
  by Dr. Vincent Edward Oluwole Adejumo, 2025
• This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
  by Gayle F. Waldo, 2025
• Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
  by Elaine Weiss, 2025

More eBooks:

• American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
  by Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, 2024
• Billy Waters Is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain
  by Mary L. Shannon, 2024
• Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
  by Odie Henderson, 2024
• Black Girl IRL: Life Between the Mess and the Magic
  by Gail Hamilton Azodo, 2024
• Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age
  by Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, 2024
• Black Schoolgirls in Space: Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain
  by Esther O. Ohito and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna, 2024
• Black Urban History at the Crossroads: Race and Place in the American City
  by Leslie M. Harris et al, 2024
• The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America: Second Edition
  by Kevern Verney, 2024
• I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
  by Gerald Horne and Tionne Alliyah Parris, 2024
• Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You've Been Told about Black Women
  by Rondrea Mathis et al., 2024
• A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin
  by Susanna Ashton, 2024
• Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America
  by Joel Edward Goza and William J., II Barber, 2024
• The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
  by Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, 2024
• Room Swept Home (poetry)
  by Remica Bingham-Risher, 2024
• Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data
  editor Srimoyee Mitra, 2024
• The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement
  by Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar, 2024
• Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles
  by Charlene Marie Muhammad et al., 2024