Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow 4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47 avg rating — 2,300 ratings 
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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Natalie Y. Moore
4.03 avg rating — 2,070 ratings 11. 
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
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Rachel Devlin
4.10 avg rating — 241 ratings 12. 
Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
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James F. Simon
4.14 avg rating — 182 ratings 13. 
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
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Adrienne Berard
3.77 avg rating — 223 ratings 
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Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights
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Christine Knauer
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 16. 
30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
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Bill Steigerwald
3.91 avg rating — 232 ratings 17. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,044 ratings
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1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
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Bill Madden
3.90 avg rating — 464 ratings 19. 
The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation 4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
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Kevin Phinney
4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings 24. 
Sitting for Equal Service: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 1960s
by:
Melody Herr
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
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Mark Speltz
4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
by:
Wayne Flynt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 29. 
Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow
by:
John Howard
3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
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Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 
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The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State
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Mary Poole
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 35. 
Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
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Cheryl Knott
3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings 
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The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism
by:
Wayne A. Wiegand
4.22 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
by:
Aldon D. Morris
4.38 avg rating — 213 ratings 42. 
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
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Nicholas Guyatt
3.80 avg rating — 105 ratings 42. 
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GENTS, LET'S TALK ABOUT FEMINIST.....: MY PLAN TO STOP THE FEMINISTS liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America
by:
Tommy Jenkins
3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings 42. 
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 47. 
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
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W.E.B. Du Bois
4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings 47. 
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law 4.17 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
by:
David Pilgrim
4.67 avg rating — 70 ratings 51. 
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
by:
Arnold R. Hirsch
4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings 54. 
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
by:
James W. Loewen
4.30 avg rating — 1,955 ratings 
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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
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Patrick Sharkey
4.08 avg rating — 144 ratings 58. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.03 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Beyond Busing: Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity
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Paul Dimond
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 61. 
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
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Anders Walker
3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings 66. 
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (with MP3 Audio CD) 4.25 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass 4.13 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 71. 
A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
by:
Hamilton Jordan
4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings 72. 
Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
by:
Mark Newman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 72. 
Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs
by:
Lu Vickers
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 74. 
Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports
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Anke Ortlepp
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 75. 
Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
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Joan Quigley
3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings 75. 
Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire 4.23 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 3.98 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
by:
William P. Jones
3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings 80. 
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement (Hodder Arnold Publication)
by:
George Lewis
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 82. 
The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
by:
John Kyle Day
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 82. 
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida 4.23 avg rating — 145 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by:
Philip Dray
4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings 85. 
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Ira Katznelson
4.13 avg rating — 2,017 ratings 85. 
New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South
by:
Claudrena Harold
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 85. 
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It 4.06 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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Ira Katznelson
3.96 avg rating — 768 ratings 
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All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
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Jason Sokol
4.14 avg rating — 79 ratings 
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Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s 3.75 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
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David Pilgrim
4.49 avg rating — 193 ratings 93. 
Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction
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Clive Webb
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 95. 
Faith in Bikinis: Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
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Dianne Harris
4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
by:
Leon F. Litwack
4.44 avg rating — 368 ratings