Black History Month Online Resources

CSN Libraries invites students, staff, and faculty to celebrate Black History Month by perusing items available in its collection of electronic resources, a few which are listed below. For more information on the history of Black History Month check out the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Also visit the CSN African American Heritage Committee’s website for a calendar of monthly events at the college.

Title: Jackie Robinson: A Life in American History

Author: Courtney Michelle Smith

Location: EBSCOhost database

Details: Captures Jackie Robinson’s life from 1919 to 1972.

Title: Black Panther/San Francisco State on Strike

Publisher: California Newsreel

Location: Kanopy database

Details: Two short films that capture the development of the Black Panther Party and the strike at San Francisco State University which led to the first ethnic studies program at an American university.

Title: An Introduction to Black Studies

Author: Eric R. Jackson

Location: Oxford Scholarship Online database

Details: Covers the origin and development of Black Studies as a field of study.

Title: Color Adjustment

Director: Marlon Riggs

Location: Kanopy database

Details: Documentary that examines race relations through the lens of prime-time television across a 40 year time span.

Title: 50 Events that Shaped African American History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Editor: Jamie J. Wilson

Location: EBSCOhost database

Details: Two volume encyclopedias highlighting 50 substantial events in African American history.