News & Events

2026 SPL Closed City Snowstorm
previous arrow
next arrow
Shadow
Library Card image
Library Map button
Library Of Things button

Resources

Mobile Print button
Museum Passes button
Overdrive button
Overdrive eBooks en Espanol button
Hoopla button
Comcat button
Salem Links and Lore salwiki button image
Wowbrary button
tech assistance appointment button image
Family History Research button image
chat loading...

February is Black History Month!

Redeeming Justice / From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity On Both Sides of A Broken System by Adams, Jarrett
Legacy : A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine by Blackstock, Uché
The Yellow House by Broom, Sarah M
Just Pursuit : A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Coates, Laura Gayle
We're Better Than This : My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy by Cummings, Elijah
His Name Is George Floyd : One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Samuels, Robert
On Freedom Road : Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings On the Underground Railroad by Goodrich, David M
The Ugly Cry : A Memoir by Henderson, Danielle
How We Fight for Our Lives : A Memoir by Jones, Saeed
Never Caught : the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
When They Call You A Terrorist : A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Khan-Cullors, Patrisse
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by King, Coretta Scott
Desert Rose : the Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Bagley, Edythe Scott
Make Change : How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by King, Shaun
His Truth Is Marching On : John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Meacham, Jon
Civil Rights Queen : Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Brown-Nagin, Tomiko
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Theoharis, Jeanne
The Sergeant : the Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of An African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army by Calbreath, Dean
VIgilance : the Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad by Diemer, Andrew K
She Came to Slay : the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Ida B. the Queen : the Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Duster, Michelle
White Lies : the Double Life of Walter F. White and Americas Darkest Secret by Baime, A. J
Freedom Libraries : the Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans In the South by Selby, Mike
The Race Beat : the Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of A Nation by Roberts, Gene
Let Us Make Men : the Twentieth-Century Black Press and A Manly VIsion for Racial Advancement by Haywood, D'Weston
The Black Church : This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
Hood Feminism : Notes From the Women That A Movement Forgot by Kendall, Mikki
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Hartman, Saidiya V
A Black Women's History of the United States by Berry, Daina Ramey
Between the World and Me by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Begin Again by Glaude, Eddie S. , Jr
How to Be An Antiracist by Kendi, Ibram X
So You Want to Talk About Race by Oluo, Ijeoma
Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You by Reynolds, Jason
Requiem for the Massacre : A Black History On the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Young, R. J
Slavery by Another Name : the Re-Enslavement of Black People In America From the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. by Blackmon, Douglas A
My Bondage and My Freedom. by Douglass, Frederick
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey : Crazy Stories About Racism by Ruffin, Amber
Barracoon : the Story of the Last
The Black Panthers : Portraits From An Unfinished Revolution by
Power to the People : the World of the Black Panthers by Shames, Stephen
Julian Bond's Time to Teach : A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Bond, Julian
Freedom Now! : Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle by Berger, Martin A
Saying It Loud : 1966--the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement by Whitaker, Mark
Lighting the Fires of Freedom : African American Women In the Civil Rights Movement by Bell, Janet Dewart
The Devil You Know : A Black Power Manifesto by Blow, Charles M
On the Road to Freedom : A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail by Cobb, Charles E. , Jr
Lift Your Voice : How My Nephew George Floyd's Murder Changed the World by Harrelson, Angela
Across That Bridge : Life Lessons and A VIsion for Change by Lewis, John
Hands Up, Don't Shoot : Why the Protests In Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America by Cobbina, Jennifer
The Blood of Emmett Till by Tyson, Timothy B
Upending the IVory Tower : Civil Rights, Black Power, and the IVy League by Bradley, Stefan M
Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales From the Gulf States by Hurston, Zora Neale
Hidden Figures : the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Shetterly, Margot Lee
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Skloot, Rebecca
The Black Experience In Design : Identity, Expression & Reflection by Berry, Anne H
Music Is History by Questlove
Just As I Am : A Memoir by Tyson, Cicely
Born A Crime : Stories From A South African Childhood by Noah, Trevor
You Can't Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Robinson, Phoebe
Showdown : Jfk and the Integration of the Washington Redskins by Smith, Thomas G
Floyd Patterson : A Boxer and A Gentleman by Levy, Alan Howard
The Hill We Climb : An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Gorman, Amanda
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Hurston, Zora Neale
She Memes Well : Essays by Brunson, Quinta
Chi Boy : Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings by Norris, Keenan
The Black History Book by
Driving the Green Book : A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Hall, Alvin D
Roots by Haley, Alex
The 1619 Project : A New Origin Story by
Black Archives : A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Cherlise, Renata
Black Af History : the Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Harriot, Michael
Lift Every Voice : the Naacp and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Sullivan, Patricia
Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel In America by Taylor, Candacy A
Kennedy and King : the President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights by Levingston, Steven
We Were Eight Years In Power : An American Tragedy by Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Barack Before Obama : Life Before the Presidency by Katz, David
We Refuse to Forget : A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Gayle, Caleb
A Nation Under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles In the Rural South, From Slavery to the Great Migration by Hahn, Steven
The Black History of the White House by Lusane, Clarence
Nobody Turn Me Around : A People's History of the 1963 March On Washington by Euchner, Charles C
Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama : the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by McWhorter, Diane
Built From the Fire : the Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street : One Hundred Years In the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased by Luckerson, VIctor
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou, Maya
The Classic Slave Narratives by
The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B
Caste : the Origins of Our Discontents by Wilkerson, Isabel
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan
Black Birds In the Sky : the Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Colbert, Brandy
Black Radical : the Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Greenidge, Kerri
The Dead Are Arising : the Life of Malcolm X by Payne, Les