Many Historians and Scholars (i.e. Lerone Bennett, JR.) have Documented our African Heritage from West Africa before we were taken "Hostage" and brought to the Americas and Caribbean, as Slave labor, thru Reconstruction, the Jim Crow ere, the Civil Rights turmoil, to the present time.

TEEN SECTION

*Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

*Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

*Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe *Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed

*Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)

*Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story

*I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

*Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

*Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) (Paperback) by John Dittmer

The Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March (Landmarks in Civil Rights History) (Hardcover)by The Editors of Black Iissues in Higher Education (BIHE), Tavis Smiley

The Gullah People And Their African Heritage (Paperback) by William S. Pollitzer, David Moltke-Hansen (Foreword)

American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Kevin K. Gaines

The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, No. 19) (Hardcover) by Barry Crouch, Larry Madaras (Editor)	Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Paperback) by Vershawn Ashanti Young (Author)	A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment (Family Success) (Paperback) by Thomas Brooks
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963 (Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr) (Hardcover) by Martin Luther, Jr. King	Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership (Hardcover) by Zoltan L. Hajnal	From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore (An Anthology) (Hardcover) by Daryl Cumber Dance
Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 (Hardcover) by Barbara McCaskill (Editor), Caroline Gebhard (Editor)	The Threshing Floor: How to Know Without a Doubt that God Hears Your Every Prayer (Hardcover) by Juanita Bynum	The Story and Its Writer Compact: An Introduction to Short Fiction (Paperback) by Ann Charters
Toni Morrison's Beloved As African-american Scripture & Other Articles on History And Canon (Hermit Kingdom Studies in History and Religion) (Paperback) by Heerak Christian Kim, H. C. Kim	Mozart and Leadbelly (Paperback) by Ernest J. Gaines	Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life (Hardcover) by Tyler Perry
Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture (Hardcover) by Maulana Karenga	Burnin' Down The House: Home in African American Literature (Paperback) by Valerie Sweeney Prince	Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues (Paperback) by Steve Cheseborough

Islam in the African-American Experience (Paperback) by Richard Brent Turner, Richard Brent	The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty (Hardcover)by Lawrence Otis Graham	Dismantling Black Manhood (Studies in African American History and Culture) (Library Binding) by Daniel Black
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Paperback) by David Garland	African American Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Responses (Hardcover) by Dorie J. Gilbert and Ednita M. Wrigh	School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman (Paperback)) (Paperback) by John Charles Boger (Editor), Gary Orfield (Editor)
Black Conservatives: Are They Right Or Wrong? (Paperback) by Godfrey Mwakikagile (Author)	African American Fraternities And Sororities: The Legacy And The Vision (Hardcover) by Tamara L. Brown (Editor), Gregory S. Parks (Editor), Clarenda M. Phillips (Editor)	Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Soroities (Paperback) by Walter M. Kimbrough (Author)

LIST

1.Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery: 8 Projects, 20 Blocks, First-Person Accounts

2.Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930

3.Africana : The Encyclopedia of the the African and African American Experience ...(by Kwame Anthony )

4.I Am The Blues: The Willie Dixon Story (Da Capo Paperback)

5.The Hairstons : An American Family in black and white...(by Henry Wiencek )

6. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present

7.Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)

8.The New York Public Library African...(by Dee Parmer Woodtor Ph.D., Dee P. Woodtor )

9.The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women grom colonial...by Kathleen Thompson (Editor), Hilary Mac Austin (Editor), Darlene clar Hine, Hilary Mac Austin (Editor), Darlene Clark Hine (Introduction))

10.Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.

11.Black Roots: A Beginners Guide To Tracing The African American Family Tree

12.Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad by (Randolph Paul Runyon)

13.Freedomways Reader : Prophets in Their Own Country (Interventions--Theory and Contemporary Politics) by Esther Cooper Jackson (Editor), Constance Pohl (Editor), Julian Bond

14.Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America

15.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.