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Greetings! Welcome to the Bucks County Community College Library Black History Month Research Guide! Please use boxes below to Find Books, Articles, Videos, and other useful websites. Thank you for your time. Happy Reading!

Black History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Black History Month Celebration at Bucks!
Celebrate Black History Month with education and entertainment from Keith Spencer.

Find Books - Featured Titles

An African American and Latinx history of the United States

The Fire Next Time

Know What I Mean? : reflections on hip-hop

A Promised Land

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Bluest Eye

The Color Purple

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

The Warmth of Other Suns : the epic story of America's great migration

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Find Videos

Films on Demand (HIspanic Heritage Month Collection)
A collection of several featured videos related to Black history and culture in the U.S.

Kanopy (Media Education Foundation) Video Collection
Streaming documentary videos, most on topics related to gender studies.
Swank
A streaming digital collection of films on many subjects.

Find Articles

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost)
Covers all subjects and many types of resources, with both scholarly and non-scholarly articles. A good place to start.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
Credo Reference
Information from more than 600 reference sources covering all major subjects.
Nexis Uni
Full-text database, particularly good for news, legal research, and information on companies and countries.