Every year, October is Black History Month. Black History Month was first celebrated in the U.K. in 1987, and in the U.S.A. in 1970 — but it’s precursor, Black History Week, has its origins all the way back in 1926!
Black History Month is about highlighting and celebrating Black History!
SGS LRCs have loads of books — both fiction and non-fiction — and DVDs about Black History, and/or written by Black authors, and we’ve put together a Bookflix Special highlighting just some of the awesome resources we have!
For a full size and interactive version of this month’s Bookflix, click here:
Black History Month Bookflix – Non Fiction
Black History Month Bookflix Fiction
(From the interactive version you can click on any book or DVD you like the look of, and you will be pinged straight to its page in our catalogue where you can immediately reserve it for collection!)
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History and Non-Fiction
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, Vashti Harrison
The Oxford Companion to Black British History, David Dabyden
Roots, Alex Haley
They Had A Dream: the struggles of four of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, Jules Archer
Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader, Kuresi Owusu
Invictus, John Carlin
Momma Cherri’s Soul In A Bowl Cookbook, Charita Jones
Rosa Parks: A Life, Douglas Brinkley
1001 African Names, Julia Stewart
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
Biography
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama
Film
A United Kingdom
12 Years A Slave
Ali
Belle
The Color Purple
Fiction by Black Authors
On The Come Up, Angie Thomas
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Pet, Akawaeke Emezi
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Home Going, Yaa Gyasi
The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor
N-W, Zadie Smith
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds
Destroyer, Victor LaValle
Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Under The Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
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