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Celebrate Black History Month! This month, learn more about Black history, celebrate Black authors and illustrators, and explore Black history through the arts. Log your reading and activities throughout the month to earn badges and tickets to enter into our prize drawings!<\/p>\n

This reading challenge is live on Beanstack from February 1st, 2024 to March 2, 2024. Curious what you need to do? Sign up on Beanstack today either online or on the app<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Needs ideas about what to read? Try any of these Black history books<\/p>\n

Juvenile Nonfiction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am Ruby Bridges<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Ruby Bridges<\/p>\n

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library<\/em><\/a> by Carole Boston Weatherford<\/p>\n

Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Frances Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America<\/em><\/a> by Selene Castrovilla<\/p>\n

Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You<\/em><\/a> by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi<\/p>\n

Young, Gifted and Black, Too<\/em><\/a> by Jamia Wilson<\/p>\n

Young Adult Nonfiction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems<\/em><\/a> by Erica Martin<\/p>\n

The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921<\/em><\/a> by Tim Madigan<\/p>\n

Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by himself<\/em><\/a> by Lesley Younge<\/p>\n

Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People<\/em><\/a> by Kekla Magoon<\/p>\n

Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights<\/a><\/em> by Lawrence Goldstone<\/p>\n

Adult Nonfiction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation<\/em><\/a> by Kris Manjapra<\/p>\n

Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western<\/em> <\/a>by Mia Mask<\/p>\n

Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip through the Living History of Black Resistance<\/em><\/a> by Alvin D. Hall<\/p>\n

Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s first Black Generals<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Doug Melville<\/p>\n

Twice As Hard: The Stories of Black Women who Fought to Become Physicians from the Civil War to the 21st Century<\/em> <\/a>by Jasmine Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Black History Month! This month, learn more about Black history, celebrate Black authors and illustrators, and explore Black history through the arts. Log your reading and activities throughout the month to earn badges and tickets to enter into our prize drawings! This reading challenge is live on Beanstack from[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1,8],"tags":[8134,6383,5196,3958],"class_list":["post-50909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-8134","tag-beanstack","tag-black-history-month","tag-reading-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-df7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50919,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions\/50919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}