Photo by Colors Hunter - Chasseur de Couleurs/Getty Images News by Selena Hill Community Fights To Save A Million Black Books Before Losing Them For Good A grassroots campaign is racing to preserve one of Britain's largest collections of Black books. A new campaign titled Save Our Stories is mobilizing support to preserve a collection of more than one million Black books believed to be one of the largest archives of Black literature in Britain. “I have access to over a million books and I can’t even read 10 because I am so busy working. She added, “we cannot lose this, this right here is history and if we lose history, we lose everything.” He also warned against allowing others to define Black history.