Black History Month Resources
February is Black History Month. We hope you'll celebrate Black History Month by taking some time to learn about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans throughout U.S. History through resources available at the William A. Wise Law Library.
-
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe / edited by Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman
- Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / Saidiya Hartman
- Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / David Brion Davis
Slavery (Colonial to Civil War)
- White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 / Winthrop D. Jordan
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith
- Slavery and the founders : race and liberty in the age of Jefferson / Paul Finkelma
- The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / Andrew Delbanco
- Slavery and sacred texts : the Bible, the Constitution, and historical consciousness in antebellum America / Jordan T. Watkins
- Black slaves, Indian masters : slavery , emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American South / Barbara Krauthamer
Early United States History
- The origins of African - American interests in international law / Henry J. Richardson, III
Reconstruction
- The indomitable George Washington Fields : from slave to attorney / by Kevin M. Clermont
- Capitol men : the epic story of Reconstruction through the lives of the first black congressmen / Philip Dray
- Time of hope, time of despair : Black Texans during Reconstruction / James M. Smallwood
- The resurgence of race : Black social theory from Reconstruction to the Pan-African Conferences / William Toll
Jim Crow
- By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners / Margaret A. Burnham
- Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
- Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Civil Rights Movement
- Black Americans and the civil rights movement in the West / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz ; foreword by Quintard Taylor
- The Civil rights movement in America : essays / by David Levering Lewis ... [et al.] ; edited by Charles W. Eagles
- Legal aspects of the civil rights movement / Edited by Donald B. King [and] Charles W. Quick, with an introd. by James M. Nabrit, Jr
- Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement / Patricia Sullivan
- Crusaders in the courts : legal battles of the civil rights movement / by Jack Greenberg
Black Power Movement
- Remaking Black power [electronic resource] : how Black women transformed an era / Ashley D. Farmer
- Waiting 'til the midnight hour : a narrative history of Black power in America / Peniel E. Joseph
- Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League / Stefan M. Bradley
- Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
Post-Civil Rights Era
- Social and legal theory in the age of decoloniality : (re-)envisioning Pan-African jurisprudence in the 21st century / edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Samuel K. Amoo
- The enigma of Clarence Thomas / Corey Robin
Current & On-Going
- Insurrection : rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship / Hawa Allan
- The state of black America : progress, pitfalls, and the promise of the Republic / Center for Urban Renewal and Education ; edited by William B. Allen ; with the assistance of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
- Jim Crow wisdom : memory and identity in Black America since 1940 / Jonathan Scott Holloway
- Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture / Randall Kennedy
- An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States / Kyle T. Mays
-rc
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 - 00:00