African American Authors: Keywords for Finding Information!

In the Davenport Public Library Online Catalog, the following "Subject Headings" (aka "hashtags") will help you find relevant information. The selected hashtags are not comprehensive, but here are a few search terms that may help you locate relevant information.

The links that take you results in our online catalog are temperamental, so if clicking doesn't work the first time, please try again. As always, feel free to discuss with library staff who can help use this guide and locate the information you need!

Abolition:

• African American abolitionists -- Biography
• African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• African American abolitionists

Actresses/Cinema:

• African American actresses -- Fiction

Air Pilots:

• African American air pilots

Artists:

• African American artists
• African American artists -- Biography
• African American artists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature

Athletes:

• African American athletes
• Aftrican American baseball players
• African American baseball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• African American basketball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• African American Boxers
• African American boxers -- Biography

Apartheid:

• Apartheid -- South Africa

Churches & Clergy:

• African American churches -- Fiction
• African American clergy -- Fiction

Civil Rights Workers

• African American civil rights workers
• African American civil rights workers -- Biography
• African American civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century

College Students & Teachers, Works of Fiction:

• African American college students -- Fiction
• African American college teachers -- Fiction

Cooking:

• African American cooking

Comedians:

• African American comedians

Cowboys:

• African American cowboys

Dancers:

• African American dancers -- Biography

Detectives:

• African American detectives

Families

• African American families
• African American families -- Fiction
• African American families -- Juvenile fiction

LGBTQ:

• African American gays -- Fiction

Students, High School

• African American high school students -- Fiction

Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Renaissance

History & Historians:

• African American historians -- Biography
• African Americans -- History
• African Americans -- History -- To 1863
• African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
• African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
• African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Juvenile literature

Intellectual Life:

• African Americans -- Intellectual life

Interviews:

• African Americans -- Interviews

Juvenile Fiction:

• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction

Literary Collections:

• African Americans -- Literary collections
• African Americans in literature

Music:

• African Americans -- Music
• African American musicians -- Biography

Physicians:

• African American physicians -- Biography

Poetry:

• American poetry -- African American authors
• Black Poetry
• African Americans -- Juvenile poetry

Race, Identity:

• African Americans -- Race identity

Racism & Race Relations:

• Racism
• Race relations

Segregation:

• Segregation