LIBRARY

Hidden Figures
QA27.5 .L44 2016
The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.

George Washington Carver
S417.C3 V45 2015
Among his many accomplishments, his scientific breakthroughs with peanuts and sweet potatoes replenished the cotton-leached soil of the South and helped spare multitudes of sharecroppers from poverty. 

Slave Narratives
E444 .S56 2000
Works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. 

Teenie Harris, Photographer
TR140.H372 F56 2011
As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation's most influential black newspapers, Teenie hit the streets to record historic events and the people who lived them. 

What the Children Told Us
BF109.A1 S66 2022
The story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the undeniable psychological effects of racial segregation.

Built from the Fire
F704.T92 L84 2023
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification. 

King: a Life
E185.97.K5 E44 2023
King was a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime. 

Culture, Gender, Race, and U. S. Labor History
HD8066 .C78 1993
By placing workers and their organizations convincingly within the context of their culture, this volume helps to demonstrate the ways the labor movement has remade this nation and how the nation has shaped the labor movement.

Many Thousands Gone
E446 .B49 1998
A leading historian of southern and African-American life reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation.

For Freedom's Sake: the Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
E185.97.H35 L44 1999
Documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action, her rise to national prominence as a civil rights activist, and the personal costs of her ongoing struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South.

From Black Power to Prison Power
KF228.N2 T53 2012
This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union.

A Working People
HD8081.A65 R45 2013
A historian examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America's black workforce since Emancipation. 

On Her Own Ground
HD9970.5.C672 W3533 2001
A biography of Madam C.J. Walker, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Contains personal letters, records, and rare photographs from the family collection. 

The Black Angels
RT83.5 .S65 2023
Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the "Black Angels." For twenty years, they risked their lives work­ing under appalling conditions while caring for New York's poorest residents.