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The New York Public Library celebrates Black History Month throughout February with events and programs, recommended reading, blog posts, and a wide array of resources for all ages. These biographies and memoirs uncover the life stories and enduring legacies of some of the most prominent and influential Black Americans in U.

Including both contemporaneous accounts and biographies written with a longer historical view of their subjects, these titles are a great place to start for those looking to find out more about major moments in American history and the people behind them. Some of these titles are also available in accessible formats including talking books DB , braille BR , and through Bookshare BK , as indicated below.

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Accessible editions: BK. Drawing on Martin Luther King, Jr. This epic new biography, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Giddings traces the life and legacy of nineteenth-century activist and pioneer Ida B. Wells, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.

Accessible editions: DB. In this definitive biography, Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Accessible editions: DB BK. A revealing portrait of playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry, best known for A Raisin in the Sun , focusing on how she used her prominence to support the civil rights movement and confront the romantic racism of the Beat generation.

World languages: Deutsch. Former slave and pioneering abolitionist Frederick Douglass's second autobiography was written 10 years after his legal emancipation in