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• Freedom Libraries

  the Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South

  Selby, Mike, 1976-

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  Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African Americans, no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medical Apartheid

  the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present

  Washington, Harriet A.

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  The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Christian Citizens

  Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South

  Jemison, Elizabeth L.,

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  With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Audacious Agitation

  the Uncompromising Commitment of Black Youth to Equal Education After Brown

  Willis, Vincent D.

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  In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases were insufficient in the pursuit of educational justice. This book explores what made it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey,

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  A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Place We Make

  Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

  Sanderson, Sarah L.,

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  The stunning true story of a Black man convicted and exiled from Oregon under the territory's Exclusion Law in 1851-and of a white woman wrestling with faith, racism, and privilege today after discovering that she's related to the pastor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed

  the Detroit Uprising of 1943

  Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972-

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  In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race Man

  Selected Works, 1960-2015

  Bond, Julian, 1940-2015,

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  An inspiring, historic collection of writings from one of America's most important civil rights leaders.

• America on Fire

  the Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

  Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983-

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  Many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Necropolis

  Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

  Olivarius, Kathryn Meyer McAllister, 1989-

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  In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of "immunocapital." For whites, immunity signaled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States

  Ortiz, Paul, 1964-

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  Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Economy Hall

  the Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

  Shaik, Fatima, 1952-

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  Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood tells the story of the Société d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans mutual aid society founded by free men of color in 1836. The group was one of the most important…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hattiesburg

  An American City in Black and White

  Sturkey, William,

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  In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wilmington's Lie

  the Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

  Zucchino, David,

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  By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Traveling Black

  a Story of Race and Resistance

  Bay, Mia,

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  What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Slavery by Another Name

  the Re-enslavement of Black People in America From the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon

  Blackmon, Douglas A.

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  In this groundbreaking book, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II--in a moving, sobering account that explores the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Illusions of Emancipation

  the Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

  Reidy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1948-

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  There are many controversies and chronic misconceptions surrounding the idea of emancipation in the nineteenth-century United States. Much recent scholarship has sought to address these misconceptions ... Reidy further enriches and…Read moreRead more of this annotation