Recommended Reading

 

Makes Me Wanna Holler, by Nathan McCall. An autobiography that captures the pain, anger, and fierce determination of a black journalist writing today for the Washington Post. McCall's honest description of his childhood in a black neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA, his participation in violent criminal acts, his imprisonment for armed robbery, and his success against all odds is a moving story that addresses many of the issues facing African Americans today. Available at Rochester Public Library.

 

Walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement, John Lewis with Michael D'Orso. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Lewis tells his eyewitness account of the Civil Rights Movement, from the lunch counter sit-ins to the Freedom Rides; the voter registration drives; the 1963 march on Washington; the Birmingham church bombings; the murders during the Freedom Summer; Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1964; and the march on Montgomery. Lewis was an active, leading member during all of it and brings the era to life with breathtaking immediacy. Available at Rochester Public Library.

 

 

Links:

African American

 

RISE: Rochester In Support of Everyone: A brief overview of African Americans in Minnesota.

 

The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: a 70-year old African American community newspaper.

 

Black News

 

Insight News

 

The AFRO-American Almanac ®: an on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. Information that will give you a better understanding of the problems we face today as a nation.


Gateway to educational resources on selected prominent African Americans, past and present.

 

Key African American figures in history

 

African American Resource Guide: A starting point for exploring African American history and culture

 

African American World: A PBS site.


African American History & Studies - Directory of Online Resources

 

Black History Network


National Civil Rights Museum online tour

 

National Juneteenth site: Juneteenth commemorates the freeing of the last African American slaves, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Official Kwanzaa website: Kwanzaa is an African American holiday beginning at the end of December that celebrates family and community values.

 

 

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