Black History Collection

Black History Collection

 

 

Black History (and Geography) in Tennessee

• Family, Wessyngton, and Slavery
• Ida B. Wells
• Highlander Folk School
• The Clinton 12
• Reluctant Relevance (Bobby Cain story)
• Nashville Sit-Ins
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls: A History of Slavery in Tennessee (Written by "History Bill" Carey from Tennessee Magazine)
• Mapping the Destruction of Tennessee's African American Neighborhoods StoryMap

 

Black History in the US

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• Google Earth: The Journey of Us
• 13TH Netflix Documentary
• African American History Museum
• National Museum of African American Music
• 1619 Project

 

Book List (I will gladly add recommendations, and they don't have to be nonfiction)

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
• High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris (also a Netflix series)
• Black Smoke by Adrian Miller
• In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis