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Black History Month 2025 - Adult Nonfiction

Celebrate Black History Month with some great titles from the Ottawa Public Library

Ottawa Public Library

21 items

  • BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2024. — 610.92 ORIUW
  • In the Light of Dawn

    the History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community

    Carter, Marie, 1953-
    BookRegina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2025] — 971.33300496 CARTE
  • Soundin' Canaan

    Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship

    Watkins, Paul db,
    BookWaterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2025] — 811.009896071 WATKI
  • Insensible of Boundaries

    Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary

    BookPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025] — 305.4208996 CARY-M
  • Sophia B. Jones

    the First Canadian Black Woman to Become a Doctor : Her Trials and Triumphs and Those of Her Family

    Steckley, John, 1949-
    BookRock's Mills, Ontario ; Oakville, Ontario : Rock's Mills Press, 2024. — 610.92 JONES-S
  • Searching for Serafim

    the Life and Legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes

    Smith Díaz, Ruby,
    BookVancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2025] — 797.20092 FORTE-S
  • Sporting Justice

    the Chatham Coloured All-Stars and Black Baseball in Southwestern Ontario, 1915-1958

    Wright, Miriam Carol, 1964-
    BookWaterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2023] — 796.357640971333 WRIGH
  • Borderland Blacks

    Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery

    Broyld, dann j,
    BookBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2024. — 305.800971338 BROYL
  • Resist

    How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

    Omokha, Rita,
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 323.0922 OMOKH
  • Messenger

    the Legend of Muhammad Ali

    Bernardin, Marc,
    BookNew York : First Second, 2023. — 796.83092 ALI-B
  • Now Let Me Fly

    a Portrait of Eugene Bullard

    Wimberly, Ronald,
    BookNew York : First Second, 2023. — 940.44944092 BULLA-W
  • Queenie

    Godmother of Harlem

    Colomba, Elizabeth,
    BookNew York : Abrams ComicArts Megascope, 2023. — COLOM
  • BookNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023] — 973.0496073 PEART
  • Wake

    the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

    Hall, Rebecca, 1963-
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 306.362082 HALL
  • Reel Black

    Our Film Stories

    DVDOrangeville, ON : McIntyre Media Inc., [2021] — 791.430233 REEL
  • DVDNew York, NY : Kino Lorber : Greenwich Entertainment, [2021] — 780.92 HOLID-E