Iona Library Resources: Black History Month

Thank you to the Iona Library staff members who curated a special selection of books, databases and articles for us to learn more about Black history. Please enjoy!

Books 

• Every nation has its dish: black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America 
• To address you as my friend: African Americans' letters to Abraham Lincoln 
• Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son  
• Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race  
• New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition 
• ​Black power: the politics of liberation in America 
• Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America 
• Kwame Brathwaite : black is beautiful 

Articles

• Black Birds in the Sky: The Legacies of Bessie Coleman and Dr. Mae Jemison  

Databases

• Black Studies video collection, from Alexander Street Press 
• Slavery and AntiSlavery Gale Archive  
• HeinOnline's Slavery in America and the World 
• Loewenthiel Collection of African American Photographs, from JSTOR 
• Photographs from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on JSTOR