| Books for Adults:
Say It Plain: Live Recordings of the 20th Century's Great African-American Speeches (with CD)
Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground
Railroad
by Ann Hagedorn
Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
by Townsend Davis
This Far by Faith: Stories from the African-American Religious Experience
by Juan Williams
The African-American Bookshelf: 50 Must Reads from Before the Civil
War Through Today
by Clifford Mason
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who Changed America
by Brain Lanker
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
by
Lisa E. Farrington
The Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for
the Right to Fight for Their Country
by Bill Harris
Free at Last! Free at Last: His Truth is Marching On (audio)
by Coretta Scott King
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
and
Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs.
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Native Son
Richard Wright
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
The Sea Birds Are Still Alive
by Toni Cade Bambara
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
by Maya Angelou
Movies:
On the Road with Duke Ellington
Jazz in Five Points
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Color Purple
4 Little Girls, a Spike Lee Documentary
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (series)
Roots (series)
Eyes on the Prize Public Viewing |
Books for Kids:
Slaves Who Dared: The Stories of Ten African-American Heroes
by Mary Garrison
Abolitionists: A Force for Change
by Sarah E. De Capua
They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle
by Jules Archer
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
by Christine King Farris
Coretta Scott King
by Cynthia Klingel
Frederick Douglass: Leader Against Slavery
by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States
by Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack
Joe-Joe's First Flight
by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Freedom Summer
by Deborah Wiles
Bud Not Buddy
by Christopher Curtis
More great titles can be found on Kids
BookBuzz.
African American Fiction for Teens can be found on eVolver.
Music:
The Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944
Live at the Jazz Workshop
Thelonious Monk
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
Genius Loves Company
Ray Charles
Speakerboxxx
OutKast
10
LL Cool J
Nellyville
Nelly
Goodies
Ciara
Late Registration
Kayne West
More Resources:
 Available
at any Denver Public Library or from home with a library card.
Browse the Western
History Photo Collection
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African-American writers of Fiction with Novelist.
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