Looking for Interesting Reading?

Want to learn more about African-American history? Think you know a lot and want to fill in some gaps? Need something to back up your wolf tickets at the barbershop? Here are some resources to help.

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie Glaude Jr
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (4th ed) by Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
• A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (2nd ed) by Akasha Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith
• The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W Chesnutt
• My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South, by Howell Raines
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (New Narratives in American History) Illustrated Edition by Peter Charles Hoffer
• The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Van Gosse
• The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware Kindle Edition by Patrick K. O’Donnell
• The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
• American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley
• From Slavery to Freedom 10th edition by John Hope Franklin
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson
• Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank
• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
• Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America 3rd Edition by Ronald Takaki (Editor)