African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Sports [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

The Match:  Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton:  How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History.  Schoenfeld, Bruce, 2004.    796.342 SCHOENFELD

Uneven Lies:  the Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf.   McDaniel, Pete, 2000.      Q 796.352 MCDANIEL

Playing for Keeps:  Michael Jordan and the World He Made.  Halberstam, David, 1999. 

796.323 HALBERSTAM

I Was Right on Time.   O’Neil, Buck, 1996.     B O’NEIL

Jackie Robinson:  an Intimate Portrait.  Robinson, Rachel, 1996.     Q B ROBINSON

Hoop Dreams:  a True Story of Hardship and Triumph.  Joravsky, Ben, 1995.    795.373 JORAVSKY

A Hard Road to Glory:  a History of the African-American Athlete.   Ashe, Arthur, 1988.    796.08 ASHE