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 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 
