Barbara P. Moss
Teacher and Student
Angelou, Maya.
The Heart of a Woman,
New York: Bantam Books, 1982. (Maya Angelou’s metamorphosis from a night club singer to a storyteller)
Baldwin, James.
Blues For Mister Charlie,
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1964. (A play based in part on the murder of Emmett Till)
Barnes, Marian E. and Linda Goss.
Talk That Talk,
New York: Simon & Schuster Touchstone, 1989. (Informative account of slavery as it happened.)
Bennett, Lerone, Jr.
Before the MayflowerA History of Black America,
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company Incorporated, 1969.
Darden, Norma Jean and Carole.
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine,
New York: Fawcett Crest Printing, 1980. (A delightful cook book by two sisters featuring soul foodssome that go as far back as slavery.)
Genovese, Eugene
D. Roll Jordan Roll,
New York: Random House, 1976. (An informative account of slavery at all levels.)
Levine, Lawrence.
Black Culture and Black Consciousness,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. (African-American folk tales from slavery to freedom.)
Meltzer, Milton.
A History
in
Their
Own
Words: The Black Americans,
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. (Experiences of some well known Blacks and how the experiences helped to shape history.)
Walker, Alice.
The Color Purple,
New York: Washington Square Press, 1982. (A touching account of a young black girl who was raped and impregnated by her father but who overcame in spite of.)
Magazine
Joseph Louw, “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top,” Life Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 15, Time Incorporated, April 1968. (An interesting account of Martin Luther King’-s last days.)