This year is no different…well it’s a little different, this year I decided to do a list of non-fiction books. Feb. 1, 2018. Black History Month focuses on history, just like the name suggests. February is recognized as Black History Month in both Canada and the United States. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Booklist‘s Ray Olson marks 2009’s Black History Month with a list of 10 best reviewed black history non-fiction books: The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves, Changing face of Charing Cross Road’s bookshops. Every year I try to come up with a list of diverse books I feel could be read to celebrate our Black History. Don’t limit these just to “little kids.” Many of these are complex enough to share with all ages!

Woodson chose this week because it marked the birthdays of two Americans that had a significant impact on the lives and social conditions of African Americans – Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. ": A Psychologist Explains the …

Nonfiction Black History Picture Books. This month of remembrance began 83 years ago when historian Carter G. Woodson designated the second week of February as “Negro History Week”. 11 Nonfiction Books To Read For Black History Month — All Written By Women. It’s Black History Month! A Splash of Red: the Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Booklist‘s Ray Olson marks 2009’s Black History Month with a list of 10 best reviewed black history non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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It also suggests, for some people, reading only older, classic books about the history of black people in the United States. What better way to celebrate than by reading a book? Black History Month Reads. By Kerri Jarema.