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.


23 items
Africatown
America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
The Unexpected Diva
a Novel
Let Us March on
a Novel
Half American
the Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
The Swans of Harlem
Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Running While Black
Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
In a League of Her Own
a Novel
Medgar & Myrlie
Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Wake
the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts
The Butler
a Witness to History
Madness
Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Overground Railroad
the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Righteous Troublemakers
Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
Black Ball
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
Fearless and Free
a Memoir
HBCU Made
a Celebration of the Black College Experience
All Blood Runs Red
the Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-- Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
Morningside
The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul
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