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