Black History Month Recommendations?

I recently picked up From Midnight to Dawn http://bit.ly/gBLGoe because I've always been fascinated by the Underground Railroad. Anyone else have any suggestions?

That looks like a good one, jen. I suggest Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a vivid depiction of slavery.

I recommend Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, about living in the South before and during the Civil Rights period.

There's a thread in the "History Fans" group with a lot of good suggestions.

I enjoyed A Lesson Before Dying very much. It describes the entrapment of people on former plantations post-slavery.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is also fascinating for nonfiction.

Thanks for the suggestion of From Midnight to Dawn. That sounds very interesting!

I loved Uncle Tom's Cabin but if you're in the mood for non-fiction I would go with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

There are also a lot of awesome fiction. Cane by Jean Toomer, Tony Morrison, Walter Mosley, Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, Sherree's Dark Matter anthology. The list goes on.

Thanks so much, everyone!

There are always the classic Invisible Man and Native Son, as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes and his autobiographies The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander as well as some more contemporary fiction.

For nonfiction, I can recommend Arc of Justice:A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich, John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds, and New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore, all of which I've read in the past several years.

Of course, there's no reason to limit reading African-American history or literature to Black History Month!

For a more modern-day take, I really liked Slim's Table by Mitchell Duneier. Also, There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz.