This Black History Month why not take a moment to celebrate Black Firsts and Black Achievement? Here is a list of books currently available at Heights Libraries. Just click a link to place a hold.
- Timelines of African-American History: 500 Years of Black achievement
- First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
- Black Heroes
- Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America
- A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School
- The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is The Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
- American to the Backbone: The Life of James W.C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists
- Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievement
- The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
- Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
- Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
- Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the first Black Congressmen
- The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
- The Triple Nickles: America’s First All-Black Paratroop Unit
- Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
- Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball’s First Black Major Leaguer
- The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America’s First Black Sports Hero
- 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
