Books to Help You Learn About and Support #BlackLivesMatter

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#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 569,025 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,176 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,543 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,282 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,308 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,730 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,588 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,605 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,230 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,295 ratings
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice 4.50 avg rating — 3,050 ratings
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Black Boy
Black Boy 4.09 avg rating — 55,310 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,338 ratings
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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 4.49 avg rating — 25,287 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,751 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,223 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk 4.27 avg rating — 76,395 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,838 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,448 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,299 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,522 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,133 ratings
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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives 4.42 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 223,008 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age 3.78 avg rating — 565,731 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating — 291,143 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,919 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,667 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till 4.27 avg rating — 8,802 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,169 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,747 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
Evil Aliens With Afros 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter 4.46 avg rating — 94 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings
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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt 4.42 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Trayvon Generation
The Trayvon Generation 4.37 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin 4.42 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy 3.88 avg rating — 482 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,210 ratings
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin 4.40 avg rating — 179 ratings
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American Lynching
American Lynching 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,255 ratings
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The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 4.19 avg rating — 4,945 ratings
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Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It 4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century 4.25 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America 4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,627 ratings
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker 4.49 avg rating — 228 ratings
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I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro 4.47 avg rating — 7,328 ratings
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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter 3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
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Raising Our Hands
Raising Our Hands 3.66 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,294 ratings
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work 4.39 avg rating — 7,351 ratings
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Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter 3.76 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Old Gringo
The Old Gringo 3.53 avg rating — 3,831 ratings
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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 4.08 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide 4.27 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman 4.02 avg rating — 21,127 ratings
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen 4.13 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 4.18 avg rating — 14,106 ratings
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,281 ratings
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White Tears/Brown Scars
White Tears/Brown Scars 4.55 avg rating — 11,905 ratings
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Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice
Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The End of Policing
The End of Policing 4.18 avg rating — 12,043 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,474 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,149 ratings
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APB: Artists against Police Brutality
APB: Artists against Police Brutality 3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned 4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) 4.39 avg rating — 10,792 ratings
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated 4.30 avg rating — 352 ratings
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street 4.38 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till 4.28 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine 4.08 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong 4.17 avg rating — 78,017 ratings
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The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till?s Murder Changed America, a personal story
The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till?s Murder Changed America, a personal story 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 4.33 avg rating — 30,142 ratings
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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre 4.07 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,759 ratings
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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century 4.39 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement 4.17 avg rating — 922 ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness 4.38 avg rating — 72,276 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America 4.37 avg rating — 4,460 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America 4.20 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment 4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century 4.34 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence
The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16) 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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