Library Guides: Exhibits at University of Missouri Libraries: Black History Month

College of Arts and Science: Black Studies

College of Arts and Science: Black Studies
The central mission of the Black Studies Department is to prepare students to critically understand, conduct research, and interpret the complex histories, societies, and cultures of people of African descent in the United States, Africa and the Diaspora.

Black History Month Resources

Library Research Guides

African-American Census Reports
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Black Veterinary History
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Additional Library Research Guides

Child Soldiers
Gender, Race, and Class in Popular Culture
Hip Hop
Slam Poetry
Harlem Renaissance
Black Studies 3703 Guide to Resources the Contemporary African Diaspora
Black Studies 4808 Historical Studies of Black Women

Online Resources

African American Biographical Database

African-American History-Archival Sources (Washington University in St. Louis)

African American Perspectives

American Slave Narratives

Archives of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change

Black Archives of Mid-America

Black Panther Chronology

BlackPast. Org

Black Power Movement

Documenting the American South

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

The Great Migration

Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism

The Making of African American Identity, Pt. 1; 1500-1865

The Making of African American Identity, Pt. 2; 1865-1917

The Making of African American Identity, Pt. 3: 1917-1965

The Poetry of Maya Angelou

Resources for African American History Research (SHS Missouri)

Rosa Parks Papers Collection at Library of Congress

Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970

Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

Women and the Blues

e-Books

Afro-Nostalgia by Badia Ahad-Legardy
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9780252043666

Publication Date: 2021-04-12

As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.
Black Country Music by Francesca T. Royster
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9781477326497

Publication Date: 2022-10-04

How Black musicians have changed the country music landscape and brought light to Black creativity and innovation. After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people.
Black Cowboys of Rodeo by Keith Ryan Cartwright; Danny L. Glover (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9781496226105

Publication Date: 2021-11-01

They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America's struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice.
The Black Fives by Claude Johnson
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9781419744365

Publication Date: 2022-05-24

The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, team
Black Girls Sew by Hekima Hapa; Lesley Ware
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9781419754845

Publication Date: 2022-06-07

Hekima Hapa and Lesley Ware's Black Girls Sew supplies tools, builds skills, and offers encouragement to help young sewists create a powerful sense of self and style.
Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Call Number: e-book

ISBN: 9781469668451

Publication Date: 2022-08-16

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating.

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