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

Montana’s African American Heritage Resources Project