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Celebrate Black History 365 Days a Year
1.
The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
by:
John W.I. Lee
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54 avg rating — 8,975 ratings
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My Black Stars
by:
Lilian Thuram
4.04 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by:
Jeffrey C. Stewart
4.03 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
by:
Rosalind Rosenberg
4.24 avg rating — 408 ratings
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An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
by:
Mary Schmidt Campbell
4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture
by:
Gordon Braxton
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail
by:
Michael L. Walker
4.48 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
by:
Myisha Cherry
4.09 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
by:
Christopher J. Lebron
3.89 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
by:
Charlton D. McIlwain
3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
by:
Kate Clifford Larson
4.50 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
by:
Thomas C. Holt
3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
by:
Jonathan Scott Holloway
4.35 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
by:
Richard Lischer
4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings
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An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
by:
Zoë Burkholder
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
by:
Thomas A. Guglielmo
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)
by:
J. Todd Moye
3.88 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism
by:
Allissa V Richardson
4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon
by:
Nyasha Junior
4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
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Laura Arnold Leibman
3.85 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by:
W. Caleb McDaniel
4.27 avg rating — 781 ratings
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To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk
by:
Jamil W. Drake
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
by:
Leigh Fought
4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings
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"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
by:
James West Davidson
3.77 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Racism: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Ali Rattansi
3.68 avg rating — 441 ratings
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African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings
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American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Heather Andrea Williams
4.10 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Richard S. Newman
3.76 avg rating — 79 ratings
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African History: A Very Short Introduction
by:
John Parker
3.36 avg rating — 737 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by:
Frederick Douglass
4.12 avg rating — 132,004 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
by:
Frederick Douglass
4.38 avg rating — 12,160 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by:
Harriet Ann Jacobs
4.17 avg rating — 56,859 ratings
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Up From Slavery
by:
Booker T. Washington
4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.92 avg rating — 239,372 ratings