The following eBooks are available through the Rasmussen University Library System:
Race and Identity in Barack Obama's 'Dreams of My Father' by 
Twelve Years a Slave by 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by 
Knowing Mandela by 
Black History Month was created by historian Carter Godwin Woodson in 1926 and was originally Negro History Week.
February was chosen as Black History Month because the birthdays of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass are in February.
Negro History Week became Black History Month in 1976 under the order of U.S. President Gerald Ford.
References:
The following eBooks are available through the Rasmussen University Library System:
Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and About Women of Color by
The following eBooks are available through the Rasmussen University Library System:
Dust Tracks on a Road by 
Things Fall Apart by 
In the Country of Men by 
