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Kwanzaa is a time for celebration, learning, community and culture. Explore and enjoy our collection of books with a history to tell.
Products in History and Culture |  | |  | African Animals Stickers
by Winky Adam
Kids will love these eye-catching cut-paper images of a silverback gorilla, zebra, chimpanzee, ostrich, and 16 other creatures — ideal for decorating envelopes, paper and craft projects and any clean, flat surface.
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|  | African Folk Tales
by Hugh Vernon-Jackson, Yuko Green
Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.
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|  | African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa
by Leo Frobenius, Douglas C. Fox
These entertaining tales range from Kabyl creation legends of the Berbers to ballads of the southern Sahara. Immensely valuable for readers of African culture, folklore and mythology.
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|  | African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
by Joan R. Sherman
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.
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|  | Early Black American Writers
by Benjamin Brawley
Varying in background and skill, from self-taught slave to college-trained professor, the writers of this collection were among the most important early shapers of Black American culture: Banneker, Douglass, Delany, many others.
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|  | Great African-American Writers: Seven Books
by Dover
Contains Douglass' Narrative of his life; Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk; Washington's Up from Slavery; Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; and much more.
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|  | The Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano
The journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy; his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, other adventures.
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|  | Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: 1818-1913
by Alice Moore Dunbar
51 speeches by prominent African-American leaders include Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?", plus speeches by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fanny Jackson, and others.
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|  | Narrative of Sojourner Truth
by Sojourner Truth
First published in 1850, this inspiring memoir by the famous African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her tireless campaign for racial and sexual equality.
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|  | Selected Poems
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Comprehensive collection of one of the beloved African-American poet's works includes "Ode to Ethiopia," "Not They Who Soar," "When Malindy Sings," "We Wear the Mask, "Dinah Kneading Dough," "The Haunted Oak," more.
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|  | The Story of an African Farm
by Olive Schreiner
The first great South African novel chronicles the adventures of 3 childhood friends who defy societal repression. A gripping indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions of the 19th-century.
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|  | The Story of the Amistad
by Emma Gelders Sterne
Gripping tale of the epic 1839 revolt, aboard the schooner Amistad, of Africans bound for slavery in the New World. Young readers will thrill to the book's "you-are-there" flavor.
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|  | Twelve African Design Bookmarks
by Gregory Mirow
Dynamic, boldly colored markers — adapted from authentic African artifacts —depict human and animal figures, abstract designs, domestic accessories, much more.
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|  | The Violet Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, and Russia are among the sources of 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. 74 illustrations.
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