Resources about Race & Racism
Websites - Finding Books
Stay Woke from Home with these Books, Resources, and Articles
Antiracist Resources and Reads: Lists for All Ages
Resources for Children & Families
1619 Project
Anti-Racism Resources
Basic eBook about Racism
Empathy Educates
Future Voters Project
https://www.tolerance.org/future-voters-project
Jason Reynolds Talks to the Kojo Kids Show
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/may2018/teaching-learning-race-and-racism
Resources for Kids and Families from the Center for Racial Justice
Teaching Tolerance
Time Article on Intersectionality
https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality/
USC Rossier School of Education - Resources for Learning and Teaching about Racism
https://rossieronline.usc.edu/youth-and-racism/resources
When We All Vote
https://www.whenweallvote.org/schools/
Resources for Children (eResources on Axis360)
Grades 2-3
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The Freedom Riders by Rachel Tisdale
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The Little Rock Nine by Rachel Tisdale
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The March on Washington by Rachel Tisdale
Grades 4-6
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American Civil Rights Movement by Emily Mahoney
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Courage has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone
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The Fight for Freedom by Geoffrey Harrison
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Gold Dust by Chris Lynch
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Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History by David Fremon
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Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts
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Little Rock Nine by John Perritano
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Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge
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Racism by Katie Marsico
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Tuskegee Airmen by John Perritano
Grades 7-12
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We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson
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Racial Profiling by Alison Marie Behnke
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The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
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Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott
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Identity Politics by New York Times Company
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Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
Resources for Children (eResources on Hoopla)
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All the Colors We Are by Katie Kissinger
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Beyond Slavery by Ann Byers
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Facing Frederick by Tonya Bolden
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A Nation’s Hope by Matt De La Pena
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Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd
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On the Playground by Dr. Jillian Roberts
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Racism by Harriet Brundle
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Racism by Chuck Robinson
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Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon
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Roots of Racism by Kelly Bakshi
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Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
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The Sisters are Alright by Tamara Winfrey Harris
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Speaking Our Truth by Monique Gray Smith
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Standing up to Hate Speech by Alison Morretta
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They had a Dream by Jules Archer
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We are Different and Alike by Cynthia Geisen
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What are Race and Racism? by Sue Bradford Edwards
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What’s Racism by Amy B. Rogers
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White Privilege by M. T. Blakemore
Young Adult Fiction Authors:
*Acevedo, Elizabeth - With the Fire on High (Young Adult Fiction Acevedo)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
*Adeyemi, Tomi - Children of Blood and Bone (Young Adult Fiction Adeyemi SciFi/Fantasy)
*Alexander, Kwame - Solo (Young Adult Fiction Alexander)
Chase, Paula
*Clayton, Dhonielle - The Belles (Young Adult Fiction Clayton)
*Colbert, Brandy - The Voting Booth (Young Adult Fiction Colbert)
*Coles, Jay - Tyler Johnson Was Here (Young Adult Fiction Coles)
Davis, Dana L
Forest, Kristina
*Giles, Lamar - Not So Pure and Simple (Young Adult Fiction Giles)
Gilly, Segal
Grandison, Whitney D.
*Ireland, Justina - Dread Nation (Young Adult Fiction Ireland)
*Jackson, TIffany D. - Grown (Young Adult Fiction Jackson)
Jones, Kimberly
*Morris, Brittney - Slay (Young Adult Fiction Morris)
*Moulite, Maika - Dear Haiti, Love Alaine (Young Adult Fiction Moulite)
Onuzo, Chibundu
*Parker, Morgan - Who Put This Song On? (Young Adult Fiction Parker)
*Philippe, Ben - The Field Guide to the North American Teenager (Young Adult Fiction Philippe)
*Reynolds, Jason - Long Way Down (Young Adult Fiction Reynolds)
*Reynolds, Justin A. - Opposite of Always (Young Adult Fiction Reynolds)
Rigaud, Debbie
*Stone, Nic - Jackpot (Young Adult Fiction Stone)
*Tamani, Liara - Calling My Name (Young Adult Fiction Tamani)
*Thomas, Angie - The Hate U Give (Young Adult Fiction Thomas)
Walker, Brian F.
*Watson, Renee - Watch Us Rise (Young Adult Fiction Watson)
*Woodfolk, Ashley - When You Were Everything (Young Adult Fiction Woodfolk)
*Woodson, Jacqueline - If You Come Softly (Young Adult Fiction Woodson)
*Yoon, Nicola - The Sun is Also a Star (Young Adult Fiction Yoon)
*Zoboi, Ibi - American Street (Young Adult Fiction Zoboi)
Resources for Adults
Being Black in America (Non-Fiction)
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (book / audiobook / eBook)
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Biased: Uncover the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt (book / audiobook / eBook)
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (book / eBook)
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Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (book / eBook)
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Eloquent Rage : A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper (book / eBook)
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Negroland : A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (book / audiobook / eBook / eAudiobook)
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No Ashes in the Fire : Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore (book / eBook)
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One Person, No Vote : How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson (book / eBook)
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The Other Wes Moore : One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (book / eBook)
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (book / eBook)
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Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (book / eBook)
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The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (book / audiobook / eBook)
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker : A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young (book / audiobook / eBook)
Civil Rights Activism (Non-Fiction)
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History : The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis (eBook)
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Collected Essays by James Baldwin (book)
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (eBook)
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How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (book / eBook /eAudiobook)
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March. Book One by John Lewis (Graphic Novel)
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March. Book Two by John Lewis (Graphic Novel)
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March. Book Three by John Lewis (Graphic Novel)
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They Can't Kill Us All : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery (book / eBook)
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When They Call You a Terrorist : A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (book / eBook)
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White Rage : The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (book / eBook)
Institutional Racism and Police Brutality (Non-Fiction)
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The Black and the Blue : A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace (eBook)
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Blood at the Root : A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips (book / eBook)
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The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (book / eBook)
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Driving While Black : African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin (book / eBook)
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Five Days : The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore (book / eBook)
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Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stephenson (book / audiobook / eBook / eAudiobook)
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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (book / eBook)
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Open Season : Legalized Genocide of People of Color by Benjamin Crump (book / eAudiobook)
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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo (book / eBook / eAudiobook)
Non-Fiction (General)
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A More Perfect Reunion : Race, Integration, and the Future of America by Calvin Baker (book)
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Afropessimism by Frank B Wilderson III (book)
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Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons For Our Qwn by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (book)
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Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (book)
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The Color of Compromise : The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby (book)
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The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (book / eBook)
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Conversations in Black : On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon (book)
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Daughter of the Boycott : Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy by Karen Gray Houston (book)
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The Dead are Arising : the Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne (book)
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Driving While Black : African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin (book)
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Fight of the Century : Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases [edited by] Michael Chabon (book)
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From Here to Equality : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr. (book)
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Girl in Black and White : the Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens (book)
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Grace Will Lead Us Home : Charleston Church Massacre and Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Hawes (book)
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal (book)
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Healing Racial Trauma : the Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe (book)
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Heavy : An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (book / eBook)
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His Truth is Marching On : John Lewis and the Power of Hope by John Lewis (book)
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Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (book / eBook)
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How We Fight White Supremacy : A Field Guide to Black Resistance [edited by] Akiba Solomon (book)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (book / audiobook / eBook)
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Locking Up Our Own : Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman (eBook)
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Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F Saad (book / eBook)
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Memorial Drive : A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha D Trethewey (book / eBook)
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Mindful of Race : Transforming Racism From the Inside Out by Ruth King (book)
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My Vanishing Country : A Memoir by Bakari Sellers (book)
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Our Time is Now : Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams (book)
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On Account of Race : The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone (book)
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Race Against Time : A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell (book / eBook)
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Slavery by Another Name : The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A Blackmon (eBook)
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Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr (book)
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The Sun Does Shine : How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton (book / eBook)
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Stakes is High : Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith (book)
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Surrender, White People! : Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D. L. Hughley (book)
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Tears We Cannot Stop : A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson (book / eBook)
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (eBook)
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Wilmington's Lie : the Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (book)
Fiction (General)
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Americanah : A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (book)
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (book / eBook /eAudiobook)
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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (book)
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Behold the Dreamers : A Novel by Imbolo Mbue (book)
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Beloved by Toni Morrison (book)
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Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (book)
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Bluebird, Bluebird : A Novel by Attica Locke (book)
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The Blues Walked In by Kathleen George (book)
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker (book)
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Delayed Rays of a Star : A Novel by Amanda Lee Koe (book)
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Everywhere You Don't Belong : A Novel by Gabriel Bump (book)
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Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (book)
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (book / audiobook)
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How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin (book)
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (book / eBook)
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (book)
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The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts (book)
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The Mothers by Brit Bennett (book / audiobook)
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Native Son by Richard N Wright (book / audiobook)
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (book / eAudiobook)
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Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (book)
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Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens (book)
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Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (book)
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Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (book)
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (book / eBook / eAudiobook)
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (book / audiobook / eBook / eAudiobook)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (book / audiobook / eBook)
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (book / audiobook / eBook / eAudiobook)
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We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels (book)
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We Cast a Shadow : A Novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (book)
DVD (Fiction)
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Selma (DVD Selma)
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Betty & Coretta (DVD Betty)
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (DVD Mandela)
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The Best of Enemies (DVD Best)
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The Vernon Johns Story : The Road to Freedom (DVD Vernon)
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Winnie Mandela (DVD Winnie)
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The Rosa Parks Story (DVD Rosa)
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Marshall (DVD Marshall)
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The Post (DVD Post)
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Mississippi Burning (DVD Mississippi)
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Cesar Chavez (DVD Cesar)
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (DVD Autobiography)
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The Help (DVD Help)
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The Color Purple (DVD Color)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (DVD Their)
DVD (Non-Fiction)
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King: Go Beyond the Dream to Discover the Man (DVD B King)
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Freedom Rider (DVD 323 Freedom)
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Light Speed History of the U.S : The Bundle (DVD 973 Light)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. : I Have A Dream (DVD 323.1196 Martin)
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Let Freedom Ring : Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 (DVD 342.73 Let)
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4 Little Girls (DVD 323.092 Four)
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Nelson Mandela: The Life and Times (DVD B Mandela)
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Black America since MLK : and Still I Rise (DVD 973.04 Black)
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Adam Clayton Powell (DVD B Powell)
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When the Mountains Tremble (DVD 972.81 When)
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John Lewis: Get in the Way (DVD B Lewis)
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I Am Not Your Negro (DVD 323.11 I)
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Architects of Civil Rights (DVD 323.1 Architects)
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The Most Dangerous Year (DVD 306.76 Most)
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Let Freedom Sing : How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (DVD 784.6832 Let)
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Brother Outsider : The Life of Bayard Rustin (DVD B Rustin)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Juv DVD 394.261 Martin)
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Berkeley in the Sixties (DVD 973.923 Berkeley)
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Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream" (DVD 323.1196 Martin)
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Documenting Hate : Charlottesville & New American Nazis (DVD 305.8 Documenting)
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The Freedom to Marry (DVD 306.848 Freedom)