Race & Racism Resources

The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved
Ralph Ellison’s “Juneteenth"
Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories
Born in Slavery: Portraits and Narratives of Formerly Enslaved People
Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
S.475 - Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, 117th Congress
Resources and Programs:
- Definition of Juneteenth
- Black Heritage with New York Public Library's E-Resources
- Book recommendations, storytimes, and video clips from The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history collection (from the Saint Paul Public Library)
- ALA Black Caucus Literary Award Winners (from the Memphis Public Libraries)
- blkfreedom website

Resources for Adults (Books and Movies)

Being Black in America (Non-Fiction)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Biography Coates
Biased: Uncover Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, Do by Jennifer Eberhardt 303.3 Eberhardt Psychology
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Fiction Morrison
Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Poetry Rankine
Eloquent Rage : A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper 305.48 Cooper Civil Rights
Negroland : A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Biography Jefferson

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore Biography Moore
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson 324.62 Anderson Civil Rights
The Other Wes Moore : One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Biography Moore
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 305.8 Oluo Civil Rights
Stamped from the Beginning: Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi 305.8 Kendi History
Warmth of Other Suns: Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 304.80973 Wilkerson Immigration
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young 305.896073 Young Civil Rights

Civil Rights Activism (Non-Fiction)

Collected Essays by James Baldwin 814.54 Baldwin Essays
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 305.8 Kendi Politics
March. Book One by John Lewis Graphic Novel Lewis
March. Book Two by John Lewis Graphic Novel Lewis
March. Book Three by John Lewis Graphic Novel Lewis
Run. Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin Graphic Novel Lewis
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, New Era in America's Racial...by Wesley Lowery 305.896 Lowery Civil Rights
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors Biography Khan-Cullors
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 305.8 Anderson Civil Rights

Institutional Racism and Police Brutality (Non-Fiction)

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips 305.8 Phillips History
Color of Law: Forgotten History of How Our Government...by Richard Rothstein 305.800973 Rothstein Civil Rights
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin 323.1196 Sorin Civil Rights
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore 363.32 Moore Civil Rights
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stephenson 353.48092 Stevenson Law Just
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 364.973 Alexander Law Just
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of People of Color by Benjamin Crump 364.0973 Crump Civil Rights
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo 305.8 D'Angelo Civil Rights

Non-Fiction (General)

A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross 305.48 Berry History
A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America by Calvin Baker 305.800973 Baker Civil Rights
Afropessimism by Frank B Wilderson III 378.1 Wilderson Civil Rights
America on Fire: untold history of police violence, Black rebellion...by Elizabeth Hinton 305.800973 Hinton History
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America, Urgent Lessons For Our Qwn by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 305.800973 Glaude Civil Rights
Black Fatigue: how racism erodes the mind, body, and spirit by Mary-Frances Winters 305.896 Winters Civil Rights
Body Keeps Score: brain, mind, body in healing of trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. 616.8521206 vander Kolk Mental
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 305.5 Wilkerson History
Color of Compromise: Truth About the American Church's Complicity...by Jemar Tisby 200.89 Tisby Religion
Color of Law: Forgotten History of How our Government...by Richard Rothstein 305.800973 Rothstein Civil Rights
Colorization: one hundred years of Black films in a white world by Wil Haygood 791.43 Haygood Movies & TV
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon 305.8960973 Gordon Civil Rights
Cousins: connected through slavery...by Betty Kilby Baldwin & Phoebe Kilby 920 Baldwin Biography
Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's...by Karen Gray Houston 305.8009761 Houston Civil Rights
The Dead are Arising: the Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne Biography Malcolm X
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road...by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin 323.1196 Sorin Civil Rights
Facing Reality: two truths about race in America by Charles Murray 305.800973 Murray Civil Rights
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark...[edited by] Michael Chabon 323 Chabon Civil Rights
The Fire This Time: a new generation speaks about race / edited by Jesmyn Ward 323.1 Ward Community
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans...by William A. Darity Jr. 323.1196 Darity Civil Rights
Four Hundred Souls: a community history of African America...edited by Ibram X. Kendi 973 Kendi History
Girl in Black and White: the Story of Mary Mildred Williams...by Jessie Morgan-Owens 306.3 Morgan-Owens History
Give Us the Ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in America by Ari Berman 324.6 Berman Civil Rights
Grace Will Lead Us Home: Charleston Church Massacre...by Jennifer Hawes 364.152 Hawes History
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal 323.1196 Abu-Jamal Civil Rights
Healing Racial Trauma: the Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe 305.8 Rowe Civil Rights
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon Biography Laymon
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by John Lewis Biography Lewis
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 305.420973 Kendall Civil Rights
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance [edited by] Akiba Solomon 323.1196 Rankin Civil Rights
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Biography Angelou
I'm Still Here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 305.896 Brown Civil Rights
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World...by Layla F Saad 305.809 Saad Civil Rights
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha D Trethewey Biography Trethewey
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From the Inside Out by Ruth King 294.3 King Civil Rights
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers Biography Sellers
Nice Racism: how progressive White people perpetuate racial harm by Robin DiAngelo 305.8 DiAngelo Civil Rights
Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams 324.60973 Abrams Politics
On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy...by Lawrence Goldstone 342.7308 Goldstone Civil Rights
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison 809.933 Morrison Lit Crit
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases...by Jerry Mitchell 364.152 Mitchell Law Just
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans...by Douglas A Blackmon 305.896 Blackmon Civil Rights
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise...by Henry Louis Gates Jr 973 Gates History
Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith 973.933 Smith Civil Rights
The Sum of Us: what racism costs everyone...by Heather McGhee 305.800973 McGhee Civil Rights
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton Biography Hinton
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D. L. Hughley 305.89 Hughley Civil Rights
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson 305.8 Dyson Civil Rights
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 305.8 Eddo-Lodge Civil Rights
Wilmington's Lie the Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of...White Supremacy by David Zucchino 305.8 Zucchino History

Fiction (General)

Americanah: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Bluebird, Bluebird: A Novel by Attica Locke
The Blues Walked In by Kathleen George
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Delayed Rays of a Star: A Novel by Amanda Lee Koe
Everywhere You Don't Belong: A Novel by Gabriel Bump
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Kindest Lie: a novel by Nancy Johnson
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Native Son by Richard N Wright
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens
The Rib King: a novel by Ladee Hubbard
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Sankofa: a novel by Chibundu Onuzo
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
What's Mine and Yours: a novel by Naima Coster

DVD (Fiction)

The Long Walk Home DVD Long
Selma DVD Selma
Betty & Coretta DVD Betty
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom DVD Mandela
The Best of Enemies DVD Best
The Vernon Johns Story: The Road to Freedom DVD Vernon
Winnie Mandela DVD Winnie
The Rosa Parks Story DVD Rosa
Marshall DVD Marshall
The Post DVD Post
Mississippi Burning DVD Mississippi
Cesar Chavez DVD Cesar
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman DVD Autobiography
The Help DVD Help
The Color Purple DVD Color
Their Eyes Were Watching God DVD Their

DVD (Non-Fiction)

King: Go Beyond the Dream to Discover the Man DVD B King
Freedom Rider DVD 323 Freedom
Light Speed History of the U.S: The Bundle DVD 973 Light
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream DVD 323.1196 Martin
Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 DVD 342.73 Let
4 Little Girls DVD 323.092 Four
Nelson Mandela: The Life and Times DVD B Mandela
Black America since MLK: and Still I Rise DVD 973.04 Black
Adam Clayton Powell DVD B Powell
When the Mountains Tremble DVD 972.81 When
John Lewis: Get in the Way DVD B Lewis
I Am Not Your Negro DVD 323.11 I
Architects of Civil Rights DVD 323.1 Architects
The Most Dangerous Year DVD 306.76 Most
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement DVD 784.6832 Let
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin DVD B Rustin
Berkeley in the Sixties DVD 973.923 Berkeley
Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream" DVD 323.1196 Martin
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville & New American Nazis DVD 305.8 Documenting
The Freedom to Marry DVD 306.848 Freedom

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