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Black History Month: Finding Books and Articles

A guide to library and open web resources on Black History Month and African American culture.

Search Terms for Finding Books/Articles

You can locate books and articles using the library catalog. For more information on searching the catlog see our Searching the Library Catalog (Primo) LibGuide

Search terms you may wish to try: 

  • African Americans -- Social conditions
  • African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • African American authors -- Biography
  • African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans -- Fiction
  • FICTION -- African American -- General
  • African American history
  • Black history
  • Black heritage
  • African American art
  • African American music
  • African American popular culture
  • African Americans -- Social life and customs
  • Affirmative action
  • Black Panther Party
  • Emancipation
  • Abolition
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Buffalo soldiers
  • Black writers
  • Black women
  • Maya Angelou
  • Toni Morrison
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Langston Hughes
  • James Baldwin
  • Malcolm X
  • Rosa Parks
  • Josephine Baker
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Emmett Till
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Dred Scott

Off Campus Access

Off campus access is available for all Great Falls College faculty, staff and students.  When prompted for a Username and Password, please use your D2L login information. 

MSU-Bozeman, Northern, and Billings students on the Great Falls College campus will have to access the databases from their home library.

Databases for Journal Articles

When searching for articles in a database, you should use single keywords/terms and short phrases. You can combine keywords/terms using AND to focus your search. To broaden your search, combine synonyms and like terms using OR.

Please Note:  Off campus access to library databases is restricted to current Great Falls College MSU students, faculty and staff. Individuals not affiliated with the college are welcome to physically walk in and use library databases as well as obtain a community borrower library card in order to check out books from the library.