Primary sources and oral histories for the history of racism and discrimination in the United States

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The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.66 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) 4.45 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 4.65 avg rating — 642 ratings
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw 4.22 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do 4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
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Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner 3.96 avg rating — 15,968 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
Voices of a People's History of the United States 4.32 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northrup
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northrup 4.22 avg rating — 123,140 ratings
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The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? 4.62 avg rating — 3,831 ratings
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The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (2013)
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (2013) 4.16 avg rating — 195 ratings
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To Be a Slave
To Be a Slave 3.93 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing 4.20 avg rating — 668 ratings
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A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940
A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working Class Women 1890-1940 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings
Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,861 ratings
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On Lynchings
On Lynchings 4.29 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture)
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture) 4.23 avg rating — 448 ratings
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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons 4.36 avg rating — 775 ratings
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study 4.33 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Lynched
Lynched 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom 4.16 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. 1: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. 1: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. 2: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951–November 1955
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. 2: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951–November 1955 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border 3.97 avg rating — 15,190 ratings
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The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions Series)
The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions Series) 3.63 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 4.07 avg rating — 7,564 ratings
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The World Turned Upside Down: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
The World Turned Upside Down: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.62 avg rating — 112 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy 4.42 avg rating — 50,184 ratings
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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family 3.88 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,534 ratings
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 4.07 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America 3.84 avg rating — 27,114 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,027 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,431 ratings
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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands 4.21 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History
Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History 4.24 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Walking People: A Native American Oral History
The Walking People: A Native American Oral History 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary 4.37 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast 3.94 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present 4.26 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation 4.12 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877
We Ask Only for Even-Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers 4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History 3.78 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Radical Reconstruction: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Radical Reconstruction: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings
Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper, 41)
The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper, 41) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South 4.25 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality
Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour 4.03 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from The Federal Writers' Project
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from The Federal Writers' Project 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
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The Stonewall Reader
The Stonewall Reader 4.36 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress 4.48 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause" 4.35 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail 4.56 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
Revolutionary Suicide 4.48 avg rating — 6,763 ratings