Black History Display Sponsored by the Jeptha Lodge # 90 Free and Accepted Masons-Prince Hall
Affiliated
The Maywood Public Library has two book displays on the third floor. When patrons of the Library enter the Adult Services Department, they will first see a book and wall display with a banner for Black History Month. A second display can be found in front of the Reference Desk, which is sponsored by the Jeptha Lodge # 90 Free and Accepted Masons-Prince Hall Affiliated.
Some of the books found in this display include: 
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations by Ira Berlin
973.0496/BER
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad by William A. Owens
973.0496/OWE
Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America’s Main Street by Jonathan Tilove
973.0496/TIL
Unshakable Faith: Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver by John Perry
920/PER
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
Up from Slavery from Mill Creek
Entertainment
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/UP 3045
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo
973.714/GUE
The Anti-Slavery Movement edited by Jodie Zdrok-Ptasz
326.8/ANT
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer
973.711/MAY
50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years by Juan Williams
323.4/WIL
Martin Luther King: “I Have a Dream” from MPI Home Video
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/KIN 604
Partners to History by Donzaleigh Abernathy
323.1/ABE
A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula F. Pfeffer
921/RAN
SWAN Online Catalog
Government
Capitol Men by Philip Dray
973.81/DRA
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
921/OBA
Black Americans in Congress by Mark Salser
328.7309/BLA
Science and Technology
Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators by James Michael
Brodie
920/BRO
Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouche
609.2/FOU
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century by James H. Kessler
920/DIS
Blacks in Science and Medicine by Vivian O. Sammons
509/SAM
Speeches
Been to the Mountaintop by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/KIN 603
Ripples of Hope edited by Josh Gottheimer
323.173/RIP
Biographies
Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith Before and After Malcolm X by Russell Rickford
921/SHA
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by Ralph Abernathy
921/ABE
Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
921/KIN
Monsieur de Saint-George: Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary, a Legendary Life Rediscovered by Alain Guede
921/SAI
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
921/DUM
Fifty Black Women Who Changed America by Amy Alexander
920/ALE
Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present– 25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumph of Their Childhoods edited by Bill Adler
301.4519/GRO
The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending the Myths, Reclaiming Joy by Toby Thompkins
305.4889/THO
Youth Services
Forever Free: From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Bill of 1875, 1863-1875 by
Christopher E. Henry
J/323.1/HEN
The March on Washington by James Haskins
J/323.119/HAS
Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put Black in American History by James Haskins
J/921/WOO
Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People by James Haskins
J/792.808/HAS
African American Women Scientists and Inventors by Otha Richard Sullivan
J/920/SUL
African American Scientists by Jetty St. John
J/920/STJ
Fort Mose and the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America by Glennette Turner
J/975.918/TUR
Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West by Lillian Schlissel
J/978/SCH
Audiovisuals
The Murder of Emmett Till narrated by Andre Braugher
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/MUR 837
Underground Railroad hosted by Alfre Woodard
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/UND 689
Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm: Famous Public Figures from TMW Media Group
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/BLA 3578
Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/BLA 2858
Black American Experience: Ida B. Wells/ Fannie Lou Hamer from History on Video
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/BLA 3576
The Two Nations of Black America with Henry Louis Gates
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/TWO 1319
Quilts for Black History Month
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