Best Books about Civil Right Topics

1.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating β€” 971,718 ratings
2.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating β€” 6,690,127 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating β€” 56,874 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating β€” 357,448 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating β€” 132,010 ratings
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.78 avg rating β€” 237 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 β€” 128 ratings
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear 4.29 avg rating β€” 37,606 ratings
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Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter 4.09 avg rating β€” 33,954 ratings
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 4.45 avg rating β€” 1,287 ratings
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Sonny's Blues
Sonny's Blues 4.32 avg rating β€” 9,289 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till 4.27 avg rating β€” 8,802 ratings
13.
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope 4.50 avg rating β€” 6,506 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating β€” 918 ratings
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 4.18 avg rating β€” 3,869 ratings
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Pink and Say
Pink and Say 4.49 avg rating β€” 11,657 ratings
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves 4.02 avg rating β€” 466 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating β€” 1,229 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote 4.02 avg rating β€” 4,042 ratings
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Cajas de cartΓ³n: Relatos de la vida peregrina de un niΓ±o campesino
Cajas de cartΓ³n: Relatos de la vida peregrina de un niΓ±o campesino 4.07 avg rating β€” 7,564 ratings
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The Trees
The Trees 4.06 avg rating β€” 47,162 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating β€” 78,223 ratings
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom 4.17 avg rating β€” 379 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β€” 99,689 ratings
25.
The Loneliest Americans
The Loneliest Americans 3.71 avg rating β€” 2,397 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,397 ratings
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Piecing Me Together
Piecing Me Together 4.08 avg rating β€” 26,716 ratings
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism 4.42 avg rating β€” 21,788 ratings
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26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest 4.15 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
29.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating β€” 288,169 ratings
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice 4.08 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating β€” 28,883 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating β€” 7,988 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 4.70 avg rating β€” 18,466 ratings
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,942 ratings
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All 4.05 avg rating β€” 798 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating β€” 21,409 ratings
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The Marrow Thieves
The Marrow Thieves 3.95 avg rating β€” 42,145 ratings
36.
The Black Kids
The Black Kids 4.03 avg rating β€” 10,983 ratings
40.
Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating β€” 76,725 ratings
41.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating β€” 28,747 ratings
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Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change 4.35 avg rating β€” 6,239 ratings
41.
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors 3.83 avg rating β€” 20,871 ratings
44.
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Punch Me Up to the Gods 4.33 avg rating β€” 5,928 ratings
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation 4.08 avg rating β€” 8,670 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 4.60 avg rating β€” 3,777 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass 4.52 avg rating β€” 158,546 ratings
48.
James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence
James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim
Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim 3.68 avg rating β€” 872 ratings
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History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don't Want You to Know
History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don't Want You to Know 3.87 avg rating β€” 333 ratings
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Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man 4.47 avg rating β€” 828 ratings
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There There
There There 3.98 avg rating β€” 214,350 ratings
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A Rap on Race
A Rap on Race 4.05 avg rating β€” 273 ratings
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Teaching Black History to White People
Teaching Black History to White People 4.59 avg rating β€” 272 ratings
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No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street 4.48 avg rating β€” 4,427 ratings
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The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating β€” 21,640 ratings
57.
The Amen Corner
The Amen Corner 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,056 ratings
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A Ballad of Love and Glory
A Ballad of Love and Glory 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,266 ratings
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Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17)
Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17) 4.39 avg rating β€” 11,552 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk 4.27 avg rating β€” 76,395 ratings
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Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South 3.80 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating β€” 32,355 ratings
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God's Buried Children
God's Buried Children 4.19 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
64.
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating β€” 115,176 ratings
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,427 ratings
66.
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear 4.28 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man 4.38 avg rating β€” 28,546 ratings
68.
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America 4.24 avg rating β€” 17,336 ratings
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 4.62 avg rating β€” 20,498 ratings
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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
by: Paula Yoo
4.20 avg rating β€” 1,545 ratings
71.
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver 4.13 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.21 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,645 ratings
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Angel of Greenwood
Angel of Greenwood 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,725 ratings
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The Wedding
The Wedding 3.96 avg rating β€” 6,445 ratings
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The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP 3.93 avg rating β€” 682 ratings
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Even As We Breathe
Even As We Breathe 3.72 avg rating β€” 3,080 ratings
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,026 ratings
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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,404 ratings
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism 3.87 avg rating β€” 165 ratings
81.
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person 4.46 avg rating β€” 5,535 ratings
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Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 63 ratings
83.
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods 4.35 avg rating β€” 2,144 ratings
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear 4.29 avg rating β€” 37,606 ratings
85.
The Distance Between Us
The Distance Between Us 4.36 avg rating β€” 16,343 ratings
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The Unpopular Ones: Fifteen American Men and Women Who Stood Up for What They Believed In
The Unpopular Ones: Fifteen American Men and Women Who Stood Up for What They Believed In 2.82 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
87.
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist 4.20 avg rating β€” 1,053 ratings
88.
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote 3.90 avg rating β€” 935 ratings
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The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession 3.60 avg rating β€” 4,252 ratings
90.
Ring Shout
Ring Shout 3.97 avg rating β€” 46,602 ratings
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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark 4.33 avg rating β€” 6,338 ratings
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Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.31 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) 4.28 avg rating β€” 694 ratings
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Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity
Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity 4.16 avg rating β€” 878 ratings
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Five Points Neighborhood of Denver
Five Points Neighborhood of Denver 4.17 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,142 ratings
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Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family 4.50 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,247 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland 4.03 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,086 ratings
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