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African American History Books
7 items
By
Linda Hamilton
Nonfiction books to learn more about African American history and the Civil Rights Movement
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The power of imagery in white supremacy
Stony the Road: Reconstruction & Jim Crow
A labor history about the NNC and SNYC fighting for workers rights and the end of segregation
Death Blow to Jim Crow: Militant Civil Rights
Study of race relations and white flight in Detroit
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Detroit
Radical black women in the black freedom struggle
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
A re-examination of the Civil Rights movement to center black women and their fight for bodily autonomy
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women
An important look at the growth of mass incarceration in America and the racial war on drugs
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
The role of religion in the Civil Rights Movement
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion & Jim Crow