Celebrate Black History Month at MPL

Book Kits

Book Kits We Recommend: Celebrate Black Authors

Black History Month Suggested Reading

Black History in Montana and the West:

Black Montana : settler colonialism and the erosion of the racial frontier, 1877-1930 by Anthony Wood

Race and the wild west : Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the tourism of decline, 1870-1930 by Laura Arata

Deliverance : Mary Fields : first African American woman star route mail carrier in the United States : a Montana history by Miantae McConnell

Buffalo soldiers and band music : 25th infantry band at Fort Missoula 1888-1898 by Susan Hintz

Meet Joe Copper : masculinity and race on Montana’s World War II home front

Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West by Matthew Basso

The Black West : a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States by William Katz

The African American West : a century of short stories by Bruce Glasrud

African American women of the Old West by Tricia Wagner

Iron riders : story of the 1890s Fort Missoula buffalo soldiers bicycle corps by George Sorensen

Black cowboys of the Old West : true, sensational, and little-known stories from history by Tricia Wagner

Lone women : a novel by Victor LaValle

A black woman’s west : the life of Rose B. Gordon by Michael Johnson

Born to be by Taylor Gordon

The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

Montana’s African American Heritage Resources Project