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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorI Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Martin Luther King Jr.
No Name in the Street
James Baldwin · 197 pages
"This is James Baldwin's long-awaited statement on what has happened to America through the political and social agonies of her recent history".
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages
An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela · 638 pages
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom Wolfe · 153 pages
A Taste of Power - A Black Woman's Story
Elaine Brown · 452 pages
Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself.
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall · 577 pages
An anthology of African American Feminist thought.
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr. · 561 pages
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby S
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis · 176 pages
>In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar **Angela Y. Davis** illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Richard Kluger
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson · 228 pages
Fifty years ago, when a white woman asked Malcolm X what she could do for the cause, he told her "Nothing." Now, Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong and responds that if society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths-- including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Timothy B. Tyson · 416 pages
Robert F. Williams was suspended and made a pariah by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the organization that had been at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement, because he dared speak clear pixel of the day-to-day, street-level struggle faced by Southern blacks, and encourage that violence upon African American homes and families be met in kind. Afraid of offe
Die Nigger Die!
H. Rap Brown, Jamil al-Amin · 145 pages
"More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization SNCC, came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. Die Nigger Die! - first published in 1969 and long unavailable - tells the story of the making of a revolutionary. Much more than a personal history, it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
James H. Cone · 368 pages
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
Stokely Carmichael, Charles V. Hamilton · 198 pages
**Black Power: The Politics of Liberation** is a 1967 book co-authored by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton. The work defines Black Power, presents insights into the roots of racism in the United States and suggests a means of reforming the traditional political process for the future. Published originally as *Black Power: The Politics of Li
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
bell hooks · 277 pages
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, the author of such powerful and influential books as Ain't I a Woman and Black Looks, Bell Hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must be achieved hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public disc
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life
Marshall Frady · 224 pages
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman · 378 pages
"On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over Americans' right to vote"--
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George L. Jackson · 294 pages
From Library Journal Jackson gained notoriety shortly before his death in 1970 when his younger brother unsuccessfully tried to free him at gunpoint when Jackson and two others were on trial for killing a guard. Written between 1964 and 1970 while serving time in Soledad Prison for robbery, the letters reveal the brutality and racism faced by prisoners and call for unity among African Americans. T
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis, Michael D'Orso · 526 pages
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beat
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Robin D.G. Kelley · 392 pages
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: d
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Shelby Steele · 181 pages
In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused murderer O. J. Simpson went free after his attorney portrayed him as a victim of racism. The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans.Through articulate ana
March: Book One
John Lewis · 125 pages
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Lut