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A PROMISED LAND

A PROMISED LAND

Author: Barack Obama
Genres: Biography, Civil Rights, History, Politics, Race Relations

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

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We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

Authors: Elijah Cummings and James Dale, Afterword by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Genres: Civil Rights, Politics

Part memoir, part call to action, We’re Better Than This is the story of our modern-day democracy and the threats that we all must face together, as well as a retrospective on the life and career of one of our country’s most inspirational politicians. As we approach another test of our democracy, the next race for the White House, We’re Better Than This reminds people that in this country we don’t elect kings, and we cannot afford four more years of this false one.

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Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy

Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy

Genres: Civil Rights, Education, History

The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery.

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Klansville, U.S.A.

Klansville, U.S.A.

Genre: Civil Rights

Klansville, U.S.A. is the first substantial history of the civil rights-era KKK's astounding rise and fall, focusing on the under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina.

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Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

Author: Jennifer Berry Hawes
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations, Religion

A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes.

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The Emancipation of Evan Walls

The Emancipation of Evan Walls

Author: Jeffrey Blount
Genres: Biography, Civil Rights

It is June 1968. The Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Negroes in the town of Canaan, Virginia have been used to acting the same, thinking the same and sharing in the unadulterated hatred of a common enemy. Evan is ten years old and, in the jargon of the times, young, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough?

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Author: Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Genres: Civil Rights, Politics, Race Relations

A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America―and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.

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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Author: Sheryll Cashin
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Politics, Race Relations, Social Issues

Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin reveals the enduring legacy of America’s original sin, tracing how we transformed from a country without an entrenched construction of race to a nation where one drop of nonwhite blood merited exclusion from full citizenship.

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The Making of Black Lives Matter

The Making of Black Lives Matter

Author: Christopher J. Lebron
Genres: Civil Rights, Social Issues

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity - and not just equal rights - of black people.

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Show Thyself a Man: Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905

Show Thyself a Man: Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905

Author: Gregory Mixon
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

In Show Thyself a Man, Gregory Mixon explores the ways in which African Americans in postbellum Georgia used militia service after the Civil War to define freedom and citizenship. Independent militias empowered them to get involved in politics, secure their own financial independence, and mobilize for self-defense.

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The Blood of Emmett Till

The Blood of Emmett Till

Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional.

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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Politics, Race Relations, Social Issues

Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.

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At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White

At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White

Author: April Ryan
Genres: Biography, Civil Rights, History, Inspirational, Race Relations

In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama’s Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children.

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In The Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

In The Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Genres: Civil Rights, History

Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers―who fought for liberty and justice for all―were slave owners?

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Are We Better Off?

Are We Better Off?

Author: Julianne Malveaux
Genre: Civil Rights

Julianne Malveaux's latest book, Are We Better off? Race, Obama & Public Policy was released February 2016 and is a timely, poignant and needed review of President Barack Obama's time in office.

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The Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Establish the National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Establish the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Author: Judge Robert L. Wilkins
Genres: Civil Rights, Education, Historical

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become a reality.

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Author: Jeanee Theoharis
Genres: Biography, Civil Rights, History, Politics

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.

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The NAACP – Fighting Neoslavery in the 20th Century

The NAACP – Fighting Neoslavery in the 20th Century

Author: Ronald Walters
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

A compilation of stories and narratives confirmed by numerous letters and documents are used by the author, Ron Walters, to establish the amazing fact that slavery existed in the United States well into the 20th century.

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Son of Virginia: A Life in America’s Political Arena

Son of Virginia: A Life in America’s Political Arena

Author: L. Douglas Wilder
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Politics

SON OF VIRGINIA by L. Douglas Wilder details the events of the author’s life to paint a portrait of the changing face of America. It will be a story of constant struggle and conflict, not only Wilder’s struggle, but also that of courageous people who stood up to decades of discrimination, corruption and greed.

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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide

Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide

Author: Joy-Ann Reid
Genres: Civil Rights, Politics, Race Relations

Fracture traces the party's makeup and character regarding race from the civil rights days to the Obama presidency. Filled with key political players such as Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Al Sharpton, it provides historical context while addressing questions arising as we head into the next national election: Will Hillary Clinton's campaign represent an embrace of Obama's legacy or a repudiation of it? How is Hillary Clinton's stand on race both similar to and different from Obama's, or from her husband's? How do minorities view Mrs. Clinton, and will they line up in huge numbers to support her—and what will happen if they don't?

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Featured Books

A PROMISED LAND

A PROMISED LAND

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

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LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America

LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. 

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON—distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University—is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of seven New York Times bestsellers including JAY-Z, Tears We Cannot Stop, and What Truth Sounds Like. A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, Dr. Dyson is a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”

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A PROMISED LAND

A PROMISED LAND

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

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