We welcome your participation in our book donation project. Children's and juvenile books about historical or contemporary African American women will be donated to libraries or community centers in South Africa. Below is a suggested list of books. If you wish to make a monetary contribution towards the purchase or shipping of the items, please designate that your donation is for the book drive to South Africa organized by the Black Women's Studies and the Academy Symposium.

Donations will be accepted until December 1, 2003. Acceptance of used books will be governed in accordance to the Black Cultural Center Library's Gift Policy.

Send your donation to the:
Black Cultural Center Library
1100 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
or drop in designated boxes during the symposium.

We are most appreciative of your support. -- Dorothy Washington, BCC Librarian and Symposium Coordinator, (765) 494-3093

Gentry, Tony. Alice Walker Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea, 1993 Amazon

Sheafer Silvia Anne. Aretha Franklin : Motown superstar African-American biographies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. Amazon

Lowery, Linda, and Janice Lee Porter. Aunt Clara brown : official pioneer On my own biography. Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Books, 1999. Amazon

Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan : American hero. New York: Bantam Books, 1998. Amazon

Blue, Rose, and Corinne Naden.Barbara Jordan : politician Black Americans of achievement. New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House, 1991. Amazon

Johnson, Linda Carlson. Barbara Jordan, congresswoman The Library of famous women. New York, NY: Blackbirch Press/Rosen Pub. Group, 1990.Amazon

Plantz, Connie. Bessie Coleman :first black woman pilot African-American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001. Amazon

Jeffrey, Laura S. Betty Shabazz :sharing the vision of Malcolm X African-American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ:Enslow Publishers, 2000. Amazon

Kliment, Bud. Billie Holiday Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. Amazon

Vivian, Octavia. Coretta : the story of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. Philadelphia, Fortress Press [1970] x, 111 p. ports. 18 cm.

Taylor, Paula, and Harold Henriksen.Coretta King, a woman of peace Creative Education close-ups. Mankato, Minn.,: Creative Education; [distributed by Childrens Press Chicago, 1974. Amazon

Patrick, Diane. Coretta Scott King An Impact biography. New York: F. Watts, 1991. Amazon

Rhodes, Lisa Renee. Coretta Scott King Black Americans of achievement.Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998. Amazon

Patterson, Lillie.Coretta Scott King Americans all. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard Pub. Co., 1977. Amazon

Henry, Sondra, and Emily Taitz.Coretta Scott King : keeper of the dream Contemporary women series. Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1992. Amazon

Medearis, Angela Shelf, and Anna Rich. Dare to dream : Coretta Scott King and the civil rights movement. 1st ed. A Rainbow biography. New York: Lodestar Books, 1994. Amazon

Haskins, James, and Jim Spence.Diana Ross : star supreme Women of our time. New York, N.Y.: Viking Kestrel, 1985. Amazon

Kliment, Bud, and Nathan Irvin Huggins. Ella Fitzgerald Notable Black Americans of achievement. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier, 1990. Amazon

Naden, Corinne J., and Rose Blue.Halle Berry Black Americans of achievement. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. Amazon

Taylor, Marian, and Nathan Irvin Huggins.Harriet Tubman Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. Amazon

Parks, Rosa, James Haskins, and Wil Clay. I am Rosa Parks. 1st ed. New York: Puffins Books, 2000. Amazon

Lisandrelli Elaine Slivinski. Ida B. Wells-Barnett :crusader against lynching African-American biographies. Springfield, NJ, USA: Enslow Publishers, 1998. Amazon

Klots, Steve. Ida Wells-Barnett Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994. Amazon

Haskins, James. Katherine Dunham. New York: Coward McCann &Geoghegan, 1982. Amazon

Dominy, Jeanine, and Nathan Irvin Huggins.Katherine Dunham Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992. Amazon

Haskins, James. Lena : a personal and professional biography of Lena Horne. New York: Stein and Day, 1984. Amazon

Palmer, Leslie, and Nathan Irvin Huggins.Lena Horne Notable Black Americans of achievement. Danbury, Conn.: Grolier, 1990. Amazon

Haskins, James. Lena Horne. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Amazon

Pinkney, Andrea Davis, and Stephen Alcorn. Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters. 1st ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000. Amazon

Sterling, Dorothy, Benjamin Quarles, and Ernest T. Crichlow. Lift every voice; the lives of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, and James Weldon Johnson. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.,: Doubleday, 1965. Amazon

Scheader, Catherine. Lorraine Hansberry :playwright and voice of justice. Library ed. African-American biographies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998. Amazon

Bundles, A. Lelia Perry.Madam C.J. Walker Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. Amazon

Lommel, Cookie. Madam C.J. Walker. Ill. ed. Los Angeles, Calif.: Melrose Square Pub. Co., 1993. Amazon

Broadwater, Andrea. Marian Anderson : singer and humanitarian African-American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000.Amazon

Hajdusiewicz, Babs Bell. Mary Carter Smith, African-American storyteller Multicultural junior biographies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995. Amazon

McKissack, Pat, Fredrick McKissack, and Edward Ostendorf.Mary Church Terrell : leader for equality Great African Americans series., ed. Pat McKissack. Hillside, N.J., U.S.A.: Enslow Publishers, 1991. Amazon

Greenfield, Eloise, and Jerry Pinkney.Mary McLeod Bethune Crowell biographies. New York: Crowell, 1977. Amazon

Halasa,Malu.Mary McLeod Bethune Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.Amazon

Shapiro, Miles. Maya Angelou Black Americans of achievement. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. Amazon

Lisandrelli, Elaine Slivinski. Maya Angelou :more than a poet African-American biographies. Springfield, N.J., U.S.A.:Enslow Publishers, 1996. Amazon

Schroeder, Alan, and Jerry Pinkney.Minty : a story of young HarrietTubman. New York: Puffin Books, 2000. Amazon

Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. Nikki Giovanni, poet of the people African-American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2000. Amazon

Rockwell, Anne F., and Gregory Christie. Only passing through : the story of Sojourner Truth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000. Amazon

Wooten, Sara McIntosh. Oprah Winfrey : talk show legend African-American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1999. Amazon

Greene, Carol. Phillis Wheatley : first African-American poet A Rookie biography. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1995. Amazon

Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks Black Americans of achievement. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. Amazon

Greenfield, Eloise, and Eric Marlow. Rosa Parks. [New York]: HarperCollins Publishers, 1973. Amazon

Parks, Rosa, and James Haskins. Rosa Parks : my story. 1sted. New York: Dial Books, 1992. Amazon

Leebrick, Kristal. Sojourner Truth Let freedom ring. Mankato, Minn.: Bridgestone Books, 2002. Amazon

Krass, Peter. Sojourner Truth Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House, 1988. Amazon

McKissack Pat, Fredrick McKissack, and Michael Bryant. Sojourner Truth : a voice for freedom Great African Americans series., ed. Pat McKissack. Hillside, N.J., U.S.A.: Enslow Publishers, 1992. Amazon

Bernard, Catherine. Sojourner Truth : abolitionist and women's rights activist. Library ed. Historical American biographies. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Amazon

McKissack, Pat, and Fredrick McKissack. Sojourner Truth :ain't I a woman? New York: Scholastic, 1992. Amazon

Century, Douglas. Toni Morrison Black Americans of achievement. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999. Amazon

Middleton, David L. Toni Morrison : an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1987. Amazon

Haskins, James. Toni Morrison : telling a tale untold. Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First Century Books, 2002. Amazon

Haskins, James. Toni Morrison : the magic of words Gateway biography. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2001. Amazon

Caper, William. Whoopi Goldberg :comedian and movie star African-American biographies. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1999.Amazon

Haskins, James. Winnie Mandela : life of struggle. New York Putnam, c1988. 179 p., [12] p. of plates ill., map, ports. ; 22 cm. Amazon

Witcover, Paul. Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Chelsea House, 1991. Amazon

annuzzi, Della A. Zora Neale Hurston : Southern storyteller African-American biographies. Springfield, N.J., U.S.A.: Enslow Publishers, 1996. Amazon