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Race Rebels, Black Power, & Community Organizing (nonfiction)
1.
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
by:
Mike Davis
4.37 avg rating β 491 ratings
2.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating β 918 ratings
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by:
Chad L. Williams
4.31 avg rating β 130 ratings
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
by:
Blair L.M. Kelley
4.48 avg rating β 376 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
by:
Karl Wiggins
3.85 avg rating β 34 ratings
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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
by:
Jon Wiener
4.09 avg rating β 276 ratings
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
by:
Aram Goudsouzian
4.28 avg rating β 64 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
by:
Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating β 63 ratings
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating β 1,967 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.72 avg rating β 8,438 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by:
Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating β 285,197 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
by:
John Lewis
4.60 avg rating β 3,777 ratings
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Grace Lee Boggs
4.34 avg rating β 1,177 ratings
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
by:
Amy Sonnie
4.32 avg rating β 370 ratings
15.
The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
by:
Andrew B. Lewis
4.08 avg rating β 40 ratings
15.
David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World
by:
David Walker
4.12 avg rating β 781 ratings
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
by:
John L. Potash
4.14 avg rating β 131 ratings
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by:
Joe Bageant
3.85 avg rating β 4,167 ratings
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Thriving While Black: The Act of Surviving and Thriving in the same space
by:
Cori Jamal Williams
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating β 1,027 ratings
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
by:
Benjamin Herold
3.87 avg rating β 955 ratings
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The Betrayal Of The Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson
by:
Rayford W. Logan
4.16 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Blood, Carnage and the Agent Provocateur: Truth About the Los Angeles Riots and the Secret War Against L.A.'s Minorities
by:
Alex Constantine
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Terror of the Unforeseen
by:
Henry A. Giroux
4.39 avg rating β 23 ratings
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On Fascism
by:
Matthew C. Macwilliams
3.95 avg rating β 641 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
by:
Charles Person
4.50 avg rating β 918 ratings
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We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords
by:
Miguel MelΓ©ndez
3.97 avg rating β 147 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
by:
John Lewis
4.49 avg rating β 28,882 ratings
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by:
Jeanne Theoharis
4.32 avg rating β 757 ratings
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Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s
by:
Bruce J. Schulman
3.72 avg rating β 61 ratings
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Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
by:
Chip Berlet
4.08 avg rating β 64 ratings
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Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader
by:
Terry Bisson
3.84 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence From The John Birch Society To The Promise Keepers
by:
Jean Hardisty
3.79 avg rating β 19 ratings
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
by:
Maurice Isserman
3.74 avg rating β 301 ratings
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Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems
by:
James Baldwin
3.99 avg rating β 209 ratings
37.
The Black Panthers Speak
by:
Philip S. Foner
4.41 avg rating β 743 ratings
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The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution
by:
Desmond Tutu
4.03 avg rating β 100 ratings
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From the Movement Toward Revolution
by:
Bruce Franklin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty
by:
Jonathan Greenberg
4.14 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
by:
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
4.07 avg rating β 54 ratings
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating β 1,624 ratings
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The Movement Toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution
by:
Mitchell Goodman
4.50 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being
by:
Todd Balf
3.89 avg rating β 195 ratings
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Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (American Crossroads) (Volume 19)
by:
Laura Pulido
3.98 avg rating β 137 ratings
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Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
by:
Max Elbaum
4.05 avg rating β 235 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
by:
Nelson Mandela
4.36 avg rating β 92,336 ratings
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The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968
by:
George Katsiaficas
3.84 avg rating β 32 ratings
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How Can Man Die Better: The Life of Robert Sobukwe
by:
Benjamin Pogrund
4.41 avg rating β 149 ratings
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
by:
Elaine Brown
4.30 avg rating β 4,578 ratings
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Amern Left
by:
Baritz
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Uptown; Poor Whites In Chicago
by:
Todd Gitlin
3.62 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980
by:
Jeanne F. Theoharis
4.14 avg rating β 22 ratings
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An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
by:
Jennifer Frost
4.30 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
by:
Catherine Fosl
4.26 avg rating β 119 ratings
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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
by:
Bob Zellner
4.14 avg rating β 149 ratings
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A Promise and a Way Of Life: White Antiracist Activism
by:
Becky W. Thompson
3.84 avg rating β 57 ratings
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
by:
Clayborne Carson
4.24 avg rating β 289 ratings
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The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
by:
James N. Gregory
3.88 avg rating β 78 ratings
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Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles
by:
Chad Berry
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by:
Raymond Arsenault
4.30 avg rating β 521 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
by:
Michael Harrington
4.06 avg rating β 1,184 ratings
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America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
by:
Gar Alperovitz
3.77 avg rating β 237 ratings
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The Window 2 My Soul: My Transformation from a Zone 8 Thug to a Father & Freedom Fighter, A Political Memoir
by:
Yusef Shakur
3.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century
by:
James Boggs
4.32 avg rating β 88 ratings
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Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader
by:
James Boggs
4.50 avg rating β 30 ratings
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Uprooting Racism and Racists in the United States
by:
James Boggs
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating