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Unsung Heroes & Events in Black History

Learn more about these little known people and events this Black History Month. Spanning non-fiction, historical fiction, and biographies.

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23 items

  • Africatown

    America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

    Tabor, Nick,
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — 305.896 Tab
  • BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — Warren
  • BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — Moon
  • Half American

    the Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

    Delmont, Matthew F.,
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2022] — 940.54 Del
  • The Swans of Harlem

    Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

    Valby, Karen
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — 792.809 Val
  • BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — Alders
  • Medgar & Myrlie

    Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

    Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-
    BookNew York, NY : Mariner Books, [2024] — 323.092 Rei
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

    Hall, Rebecca, 1963-
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — Hall
  • The Butler

    a Witness to History

    Haygood, Wil
    BookNew York : 37 Ink/Atria, [2013]. — 973.92 Hay
  • Madness

    Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

    Hylton, Antonia
    BookNew York, NY : Legacy Lit, 2024. — 362.21 Hyl
  • Overground Railroad

    the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

    Taylor, Candacy A.,
    BookNew York, NY : Amulet Books, 2022. — 305.8 Tay
  • Righteous Troublemakers

    Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America

    Sharpton, Al
    Downloadable AudiobookHarlequin Audio, 2022
  • Black Ball

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

    Runstedtler, Theresa,
    BookNew York : Bold Type Books, 2023. — 796.323 Run
  • BookNew York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025] — XX(1752262.3)
  • HBCU Made

    a Celebration of the Black College Experience

    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024. — 378.198 Hbc
  • All Blood Runs Red

    the Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-- Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

    Keith, Phil, 1946-
    BookToronto : Hanover Square Press, [2019] — B Bullar
  • Morningside

    The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

    Shetterly, Aran
    Downloadable AudiobookHarperAudio, 2024