Book Guide

A Promised Land book cover

The Truths We Hold book cover

Finding Me book cover

The Light We Carry book cover

Robert Smalls materials

1839 – 1915: A Selective List of Links & Materials Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

Lowcountry Digital Library (images)

View 2 images related to Black institutions and people in the Lucille Hasell Culp Collection in the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Civil War Black Soldiers & Sailors

Black Soldiers and Sailors during the Civil War : Selected Materials & Links Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

South Carolina State Library logo

Guide to Black History Month resources compiled by the SC State Library.

A Call to Conscience book cover

Lowcountry Digital Library (images)

View 92 images of African-American life in Northern Beaufort County in the "Phosphate, Farms and Family" collection in the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Becoming book cover

It Worked for Me book cover

Smokin' Joe the Life of Joe Frazier book cover

To be, or not ... To Bop book cover

SC African-American History, More

"This open repository – created and maintained by SCIWAY as a public resource – seeks to collect reliable information about the black experience in South Carolina, from the long years of slavery to the present day." -SCIWAY.net

AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth.gov

A collaborative project of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

America, a Redemption Story book cover

Music Speaks book cover

Quiet Strength book cover

A Man Named Pearl DVD case

NPR's Black History Month Collection logo

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise film cover

Call Us What We Carry book cover

Black History Month audiobooks cover

Instantly-available, downloadable audiobooks available in Hoopla Digital.

The Secret of the Gullah Treasure book cover

Black Ballerinas book cover

Gullah Images the Art of Jonathan Green book cover

Hidden Figures book covers

Audiobook Download now in Hoopla.

Go Tell It On the Mountain book cover

Jackie Robinson (PBS) film cover

JACKIE ROBINSON, a two-part, four-hour film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon tells the story of an American icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcends even his remarkable athletic achievements. Watch instantly on Hoopla.

Gullah Tears The Enslaved Souls of Charleston book cover

Condoleezza Rice book cover

Yes, Lord, I Know the Road book cover

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks book cover

Black Ink book cover

The Measure of a Man book cover

Great African American Literary Voices cover

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Listen to the audiobook of "Beloved" in the cloudLibrary.

When They Call You A Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir audiobook cover

Gifted Hands the Ben Carson Story book cover

Invisible Man book cover

Up from Slavery audio book cover

The Underground Railroad

Read the eBook of award-winning "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead with the cloudLibrary.

12 Years a Slave audio book cover

Reconstruction Period in SC

Reconstruction Period in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862 – 1893 Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

Gullah Language

Beaufort History Moment: Gullah Language (YouTube) Produced by the Beaufort County Channel

Mitchelville

The First Freedman’s Village, A List of Materials & Links Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

The Blood of Emmett Till audio book cover

The Black History Collect book cover

Making Gullah book cover

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Penn School

Penn School: A Selective List of Materials & Links Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

Homegoing book cover

Barracoon The Story of the Last Black Cargo book cover

African-American Writings

Audio Listen instantly on Hoopla

The Good Lord Bird book cover

Harriet Tubman, Combahee River Raid

A Selective List of Links & Materials. Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection.

American Chronicles Civil Rights audiobook

The Gullahs of South Carolina book cover

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Listen to the audiobook of this award-winning novel by Maya Angelou. Available via the cloudLibrary.

The Black Calhouns

The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights by Gail Lumet Buckley Place book on hold with your library card.

Smokin' Joe Frazier (Book)

Smokin' Joe : the autobiography of a heavyweight champion of the world, Smokin' Joe Frazier by Joe Frazier with Phil Berger Place book on hold with your library card.

The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy book co

Dr. Buzzard & Root Work

Of the many root doctors and conjurers working in coastal South Carolina, the most famous was Stepheney Robinson, 1885 -1947, of St. Helena Island, aka “Dr. Buzzard.”... Written and compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection.

The Autobiography of Malcom X book cover

Sister Outsider audio book cover

A place fa we : Black townships on the coast of the Gullah/Geechee book cover

Kindred book cover

What Truth Sounds Like : Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and our Unfinished Conversation About Rac

Americanah book cover

Smoketown book cover

Mr. Civil Rights (PBS)

Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall And The NAACP Watch instantly on Hoopla.

Missionary Teachers to Freedmen

“Missionary Teachers to the Freedmen”

The Bone and Sinew of the Land book cover

Ain't Burned all the Bright book cover

Sam Doyle

Thomas “Sam” Doyle, 1906 – 1985 : A Selective List of Links & Materials Compiled by the Library's Beaufort District Collection

March Forward, Girl audio book cover

Between the World and Me book cover

More than a Game book cover

Native Son by Richard Wright

Instantly listen to the audiobook of this famous novel, available via Hoopla.

Negroland: a memoir book cover

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America book cover

Slavery By Another Name

Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Place book on hold with your library card.

I, too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry

This is My America book cover

Music Albums: Downloadable

March book cover

Behold the Dreamers book cover

Their Eyes Were Watching God audio book cover

Native Son book cover

The Quilts of Gee's Bend book cover

T'inkin' 'bout famlee: a Geechee down novella cover

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration book cover

I Am Not Your Negro film cover

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul book cover

Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion book cover

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide book cover

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black in the Army Women Helped Change the Course of WWII book cover

28 Days

28 days: Moments in Black history that changed the world by Charles R. Smith, Jr. Place book on hold with your library card.

Their Eyes Were Watching God book cover

The Hate U Give book cover

The Hill We Climb book cover

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

The Crossover book cover

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves: An Anthology book cover

Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes book cover

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America book cover

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina book cover

I Rise book cover

Flygirl book cover

Betty Before X book cover

Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman book cover

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

The Black Kids book cover

Hoopla Audiobooks for Kids

Instantly-available downloadable audiobooks from Hoopla Digital.

You Should See Me in a Crown book cover

A Child's Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events that Shaped

Playing the Cards You're Dealt book cover

Growing up Gullah in the Lowcountry

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 book cover

Shaking Things Up book cover

What Do You Do With A Voice Like That: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan book

Little Leaders Bold Women in Black History book cover

Crown An Ode to the Fresh Cut book cover

Hidden Figures The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book cover

Young Black and Gifted: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present book cover

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk to Freedom book cover

Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment book cover

Finding Langston book cover

All American Boys book cover

Ada Twist, Scientist book cover

Henry's Freedom Box book cover

Mae Among the Stars book cover

Muhammad Ali book cover

I Believe I Can book cover

Before She Was Harriet book cover

Tales of the Talented Tenth book cover

Brown Girl Dreaming book cover

Through My Eyes book cover

Chains book cover

The Doctor With an Eye for Eyes book cover

Nina: Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights Activist Nina Simone book cover

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom book cover

I Am Okay to Feel book cover

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore book cover

Bud, Not Buddy book cover

The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist book cover

Amazing Grace book cover

Have You Thanked an Inventor Today book cover

Stacey's Remarkable Books book cover

Freedom Summer book cover

The Undefeated book cover

The ABC's of Black History book cover

Little Black Girl, Oh the Things You Can Do book cover

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie book cover

I Am Every Good Thing book cover

M is for Melanin book cover

Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School book cover

Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood book cover

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave book cover

Your Name is Song book cover

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