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Black History Month: Recommended Reading

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By Eric Phillips

Learning about Black History doesn’t stop on March 1. Here are some great books to read and share, anytime.

Alexander, Ken and Avis Glaze. Towards freedom: the African-Canadian experience. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996.

Fraser, Fil. How the Blacks Created Canada. Edmonton: Dragon Hill Publishing, 2009.

Fraser, Fil. Running Uphill: The Short Life of Canadian Champion Harry Jerome. Edmonton: Dragon Hill Publishing, 2006.

Hill, Daniel G. The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt: Book Society of Canada, 1981.

Hill, Lawrence. Trials and triumphs: the story of African-Canadians. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1992.

McLaughlin, Dennis and Leslie. For My Country: Black Canadians on the Field of Honour. Ottawa: Minister of National Defence, 2004

Sadlier, Rosemary. Leading the way: Black women in Canada. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1994.

Sadlier, Rosemary. Mary Ann Shadd : publisher, editor, teacher, lawyer, suffragette. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1995.

Sadlier, Rosemary. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad : Her Life in the United States and Canada. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997.

Sadlier, Rosemary. The Kids book of Black Canadian history. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 2003.

Shadd, Adrienne, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost. The underground railroad: Next Stop Toronto. Toronto : Natural Heritage, 2005.

Smardz Frost, Karolyn. Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage : Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2009.

Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land : A Lost Tale of The Underground Railroad. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2007.

Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada: A History A History. 2nd ed. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.

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# 1 February 2011 at 5:42 pm

Lisa Stelring said:

Great choices! The more I read about Black History is the more I realize there is so much more to learn.

Right now I am reading Succeeding Against the Odds. It’s John Johnson’s autobiography. He’s the man who created and published Ebony Magazine in 1945– the world’s first major Black magazine. The autobiography gives incredible insight into what it took to create a successful multimillion dollar publication that inspired and empowered both Blacks and Whites alike during the Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Josephine Baker era in America.

This book makes me appreciate a lot of things more: like Sway magazine and other media which fights to keep people like John Johnson and MLK’s spirits alive… (Remember Ebony Fashion Fair… The worlds largest travelling fashion show?!)

Any Black book, for any age, can be ordered through Knowledgebookstore.com; one of my favourite stores.

Have a blessed BHM!

LuvLi

# 2 February 2011 at 9:57 am

Lisa Stelring said:

Oops… That’s Sterling, not Stelring.