ODU Libraries offer a curated virtual book display to the Monarch community as we recognize Black History Month this February!
Explore the history, culture, and contributions of Black communities through a curated selection of resources. This virtual display features e-books, print titles, documentaries, and films that reflect the richness and resilience of the Black experience—past and present.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
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Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence
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Battleground: African American Art, 1985-2015
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Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight
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Black American Portraits from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Black History: More than Just a Month
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The Black History of the White House
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Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
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The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
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Dream and Legacy: Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools
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Empire Roller Disco Photographs
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Faith Ringgold: American People
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
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From Africa: A Celebration of Creativity from Africa, Compiled and Published by Counter-Print
Gordon Parks Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946
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Gordon Parks Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
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Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul
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Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning
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In the Black Fantastic
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Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning
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Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface
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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
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Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints, 1972-2022
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Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
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Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
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Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The Norfolk 17: A Personal Narrative on Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1958-1962
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The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas
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Reggie Burrows Hodges
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Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
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Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend
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Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation
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The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi
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The Underground Railroad
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The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team that Dismantled Jim Crow
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When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
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Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music
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A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
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Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Teaching Black History to White People
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Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
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