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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation

Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation

Authors: Stuart Connelly, Clarence B. Jones
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to the great event, as told by Clarence Jones, co-writer of the speech and close confidant to King.

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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Authors: Zora Neale Hurston, Heny Louis Gates, Genevieve West
Genres: Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

You Don’t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston.

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Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America

Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America

Author: Rev. Al Sharpton
Genres: Civil Rights, Politics, Race Relations

Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice in America

“This is the time. We won’t stop until we change the whole system of justice.”—Rev. Al Sharpton

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The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

Author: William H. Turner
Genres: Civil Rights, Historical, Race Relations

Unfolding through layers of sociological insight and oral history, The Harlan Renaissance centers the sympathetic perspectives and critical eye of a master narrator of Black life.

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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

Author: John Lewis
Genres: Biography, Civil Rights, History, Race Relations

In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society.

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Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

Author: Schele Williams
Genres: History, Race Relations

A proud, empowering introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors enslaved ancestors.

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THE BURNING: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

THE BURNING: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Author: Tim Madigan and St. Martin's Griffin
Genres: Civil Rights, Economics, Education, History, Race Relations

The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation

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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built

State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built

Author: Tamilka D. Mallory
Genres: Civil Rights, Inspirational, Race Relations

Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action in this searing indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black and brown lives.

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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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LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America

LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America

Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Genres: History, Politics, Race Relations

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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Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All

Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All

Author: Mark Green and Ralph Nader
Genres: History, Politics, Race Relations

By four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader and bestselling author Mark Green, Wrecking America organizes Trump's lies and lawbreaking issue-by-issue—focusing on Covid-19 and racial protests. This scathing, witty, accessible paperback is the last up-to-date book on "the Lyin' King" keyed to General Election voters and post-election America.

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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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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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Field to Factory – Voices of the Great Migration

Field to Factory – Voices of the Great Migration

Author: Spencer Crew
Genres: Education, History, Race Relations

Sections on labor recruiters, the black press, letters and visits home, life in the south, farm work, southern schools, the decision to move, community and church, heading north, a journey in stages, up north, housing, a mixed reception, factory work, discrimination on the job, blacks and unions, black women at work, Nannie Helen Burroughs, northern black businesses and much more.

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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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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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African Americans Against the Bomb

African Americans Against the Bomb

Author: Vincent Intondi
Genres: History, Politics, Race Relations

African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality.

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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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