Black History Month

Key Titles

Gain a deeper appreciation for African American heritage with these titles from Gale. You can order them by calling us toll-free at 1-800-877-GALE.

Blackbirch Press | Charles Scribner's Sons | Distributed eBooks | Gale | Greenhaven Press | KidHaven Press | Lucent Books | Macmillan Reference USA | Primary Source Media | Sleeping Bear Press | Thorndike Press | Thorndike Young Adult | Twayne Publishers

Titles available in these formats:
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From Charles Scribner's Sons^® :

       Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students
       African American Writers
  The African-American Years
  New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
       The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
       Scribner Writers Online
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Distributed eBooks

From Cartographica
       Atlas of the Civil War
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From Greenwood
       African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence
       Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1820 to 1860
       Barack Obama: A Biography
       Black Congressmen During Reconstruction: A Documentary Sourcebook
       The Civil War
       The Civil War: Primary Documents on Events from 1860 to 1865
       The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones in African American History
       LeBron James: A Biography
       Nelson Mandela: A Biography
       Race and Racism in Literature
       Slave Revolts
       The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia
       Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
       A Voice from the Civil Rights Era
       Walter Dean Myers
       The World of Toni Morrison: A Guide to Characters and Places in Her Novels
       A Zora Neale Hurston Companion
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From Grey House
       African Biographical Dictionary
       Ancestry in America: A Comparative City-by-City Guide to over 200 Ethnic Backgrounds
       From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Woman
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From Sage
       Encyclopedia of African American Society
       Encyclopedia of Black Studies
       Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society
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From Salem Press
       American Ethnic Writers
       Notable African American Writers
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From Scarecrow
       Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
       Historical Dictionary of African-American Television
       Historical Dictionary of the Civil War
       Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction
       Historical Dictionary of the Old South
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From Sharpe
       Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America
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From Shrimer
       American Musical Traditions
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From U·X·L
       Activists, Rebels and Reformers
  African American Eras Library
       American Civil Rights Reference Library
       American Civil War Reference Library
  American History through Literature, 1820-1920
  American Social Reform Movements Reference Library
       Artists
       Experiencing the American Civil War
       Harlem Renaissance
       Performing Artists
  Prejudice in the Modern World
  Reconstruction Era Reference Library
  The Sixties in America Reference Library
       Slavery Throughout History Reference Library
  UXL American Decades
  UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography
  UXL Newsmakers
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From Gale^®:

  African American Almanac
       Almanac of Famous People
  American Decades
  American Decades Primary Sources
  American Men & Women of Science
  Biography and Genealogy Master Index
       Biography Resource Center
       Biography Resource Center: African Americans
       Biography Resource Center: Lives and Perspectives Collection
       Black Literature Criticism
       Black Literature Criticism: Classic & Emerging Black Writers
  Contemporary Black Biography, Vol 1-70
  Contemporary Musicians
  Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television
  Dictionary of American History
       Dictionary of Literary Biography
       Discovering Collection
  Encyclopedia of World Biography
  Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
       Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America: Primary Documents
  Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War
  Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America
  History Behind the Headlines
       History Resource Center: US
       Junior Reference Collection
       Literature Resource Center
       LitFinder
       Newsmakers
  Notable Black American Men
       Notable Black American Women
  Notable Sports Figures
       Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
       Slavery and Anti-Slavery
       Sources in US History Online: Slavery in America
       Sources in US History Online: The Civil War
  Who's Who Among African Americans
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From Greenhaven Press:^®

       History Firsthand
       Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints
       Opposing Viewpoints Series
       Profiles in History
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From Lucent Books^®:

       Lucent Library of Black History
       Maya Angelou
       Rihanna
       Will Smith
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From Macmillan Reference USA^TM:

       African American Culture and History: A Student's Guide
       African-American Culture and History
       Civil Rights in the United States
  Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
       Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
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From Primary Source Media^TM:

  African American Culture and History: The L.S. Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana
  African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s
  The Africo-American Presbyterian, 1880-1938
  Alexander Crummell Collection
  Alexander Pierre Tureaud Papers, 1909-1972
  Allan Morrison Papers, 1940-1968
  American Negro Historical Society Collection, 1790-1905
  Anti-Slavery Collection: From the Oberlin College Library
  The Archives of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1942-1976
  The Bee, Ripley Bee & Independent Press, 1847, 1850-1868
  Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records, 1968-1980
  Black and Third World Periodicals: Sample Issues, 1844-1963
  Black Newspapers: Sample Issues, 1845-1966
  Blacks in the Railroad Industry, 1946-1954
  Blacks in the U.S. Armed Forces: Basic Documents, 1639-1973
  Civil Rights and Social Activism in the South
  Clarence Cameron White Papers, 1901-1940
  Daniel Ellis Byrd Papers
  The Detroit Urban League Papers
  Earl Conrad/Harriet Tubman Collection
  Eusebia Cosme Papers, 1927-1973
  FBI File on A. Philip Randolph
  FBI File on Adam Clayton Powell
  FBI File on Elijah Muhammed
  FBI File on Malcolm X
  FBI File on Marcus Garvey
  FBI File on Muslim Mosque, Inc.
  FBI File on Paul Robeson
  FBI File on Roy Wilkins
  FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina
  FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America
  FBI File on the Murder of Lemuel Penn
  FBI File on the National Negro Congress
  FBI File on the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
  FBI File on Thurgood Marshall
  FBI File on W. E. B. Du Bois
  FBI File: MIBURN (Mississippi Burning)
  FBI Files on the NAACP
  FBI Files on the Rev. Jesse Jackson
  FBI Surveillance File: Malcolm X
  FDR and Race Relations
  Fredi Washington Papers, 1925-1979
  Freedmen's Aid Society Records, 1866-1932
  Freedom Civic Association Records
  The General Education Board Archives: Series 1: Appropriations; Subseries 3: New Southern Program and Related Programs, 1931-1961
  The General Education Board Archives: Series I: Appropriations; Subseries 1: Early Southern Program
  Grassroots Social Activism Records of the Highlander Folk School and Highlander Research and Education Center, 1932-1978
  Gwendolyn Bennett Papers, 1916-1981
  Hugh Smythe Papers
  John Edward Bruce Papers, 1872-1918
  The John Patterson Green Papers,1869-1910
  John Preston Davis Papers
  Katz/Prince Collection
  Langston Hughes Collection, 1926-1967
  Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File
  Maximilien, Eugene - Haitian Collection, 1847-1933
  The Minority Voter, Election of 1936 and the Good Neighbor League
  NAACP Office of Field Director of Louisiana Records, 1964-1976
  National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses Records, 1908-1951
  Negro Labor Committee Record Group, 1925-1969
  Oakley Johnson Papers
  Papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1883-1961
  The Papers of Countee Cullen, 1921-1969
  Papers of Edwin Doak Mead and Lucia Ames Mead, 1876-1936
  The Papers of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977
  The Papers of Mary McLeod Bethune, 1923-1942
  The Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society, 1817-1902
  The Papers of the Pennsylvania State Abolitionist Society, 1775-1916
  Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Division of Work for Colored People Records, 1924-1945.
  The Records of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1760-1972
  Records of the Free Southern Theater, 1963-1978
  Richard Parrish Papers, 1950-1975
  The Robert Goodloe Harper Papers
  Sabin Derivative - Slavery: Unit 1 Prior To 1850
  Sabin Derivative - Slavery: Unit 2 Post 1850
  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Selected Collections
  Series 1: Civil Rights and Social Activism in Alabama
  Series 1: Civil Rights and Social Activism in Alabama: Part 1: The Papers of John LeFlore, 1926-1976
  Series 1: Civil Rights and Social Activism in Alabama: Part 2: Records of the Non-Partisan Voters League, 1956-1987
  Series 2: The Legal Battle for Civil Rights in Alabama
  Series 2: The Legal Battle for Civil Rights in Alabama: Part 1: Vernon Z. Crawford Records, 1958-1978 Civil Rights Cases
  Series 2: The Legal Battle for Civil Rights in Alabama: Part 2: Selections from the Blacksher, Menefee & Stein Records
  Series 3: James A. Dombrowski and the Southern Conference Educational Fund
  Slave Trade Papers
  The Slave Trade, 1858-1892: British Foreign Office: File 541, Confidential Print Series
  The Slavery and Abolition Collections
  Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1780-[1860]
  Slavery, Source Material and Critical Literature (Lost Cause Press)
  Slavery, Source Material and Critical Literature: Unit 1-17
  State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1811-1860
  Stetson Kennedy Collection, 1916-1950
  Straight University Catalogs (1870-1934) and New Orleans University Catalogs (1873-1935)
  Struggle of 'Colored Citizens' before the Civil War
  Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial
  U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Inward Slave Manifests, 1807-1860
  U.S. Customs Service Records: Port of New Orleans, Louisiana Outward Slave Manifests, 1812-1860
  Universal Negro Improvement Association Records, 1921-1986
  Universal Negro Improvement Association: Records of the Central Division, New York, 1918-1959
  West Indian (Haiti) Collection
  William and Sarah Scarborough Papers, 1879-1935
  William Pickens Papers
  Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York
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From Sleeping Bear Press

       D is for Drinking Gourd
       Friend on Freedom River
       The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale
       Let Them Play
       Pappy's Handkerchief
       Riding to Washington
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Thorndike:

       Thorndike African-American -- Large Print
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From Twayne Publishers^TM

       African American History Series
       African American Reference Library
       African American Voices
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