Resources for Black History Month

Online:

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History Month

Black History Month Resources from Gale

Librarians' Internet Index Black History Month Web Sites

Black History Month Resources at Infoplease.com

Nicodemus, Kansas
Learn more about the only remaining all-Black town west of the Mississippi River.


Mabee Library:

The latest selection from Oprah's Book Club:
The measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Sidney Poitier
PN2287.P57 A3 2000

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
with the assistance of Alex Haley; introduction by M.S. Handler; epilogue by Alex Haley; afterword by Ossie Davis
BP223.Z8 X1385 1992b

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
edited by Clayborne Carson
E185.97.K5 A52 1998

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
Richard Wright
PS3545.R815 Z5

Best Literature by and about Blacks
Phillip M. Richards, Neil Schlager
Mabee Reference Z1229.N39 R53 2000


Washburn University:






Lee Mun Wah, filmmaker and lecturer, will facilitate a discussion on racial diversity after the film screening of his internationally reknowned documentary The Color of Fear on Tuesday, Feb. 6. The film will begin at 6 p.m. in the Washburn Room, Memorial Union, followed by the discussion. The multicultural affairs office in Morgan 110 has a limited number of tickets available to Washburn students for $5 each and faculty and staff for $10 each. The price includes a boxed dinner.


Recent Award Winners:

The 2007 BCALA (The Black Caucus of the American Library Association) Literary Awards:

Fiction Winner
After, A Novel by Marita Golden

Fiction Honor Book Winners
Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley (WU Mabee Stacks PS3563.O88456 F67 2006)
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin

Nonfiction Winner
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (WU Law Main Stacks E901.1.O23 A3 2006)

Nonfiction Honor Book Winners
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Coretta Scott King Awards:

Copper Sun Sharon Draper, author (WU Curric. Prev. PRE D)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Kadir Nelson, illustrator (WU Curric. Prev. PRE W)
Standing Against the Wind Traci L. Jones, author (1 copy ordered for WU Curric. Lib.)

Kansas Day and the One Book Project

Kansas Day

Kansas Day, a "birthday" celebration held the date Kansas became a state, will take place on January 29, 2007. Here are a few links to Web pages with additional Kansas Day information and activities:

Kansas Day Links from the Kansas State Library

Kansas Day at the Museum and Kansas Day at the Capitol

Events Highlight State's Birth (registration at cjonline.com required)

Kansas State Symbols and Facts

Here at Washburn, British journalist Paul Harris will discuss "What's the Matter with Everyone Else?": A Foreign Perspective on Kansas" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in Henderson Living Resources Center Room 208. Read the press release HERE.

Kansas Center for the Book's One Book Project

Also on Kansas Day, the first One Book project from the State Library's Kansas Center for the Book will begin and continue through April 30. The inaugural One Book is The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks.

Items Available at Mabee Library

The Learning Tree
PS3566.A73 L4

The Learning Tree [videorecording]
PS3566.A73 L42 1987

Browse through other Gordon Parks-related materials HERE.