Bibliography

Nonfiction books for Adults

Addressing Whiteness

A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of Racism in the South by Robert W. Lee.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, PhD
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Commentary

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery edited by Rochelle Riley, foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones

General history

American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Graphic novels

March (Books 1-3) by John Lewis

Justice and Reform

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klaman
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Memoirs/ biographies

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Becoming by Michelle Obama
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio
Mississippi Solo: A Travel Quest by Eddy L. Harris
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharris

Modern Civil Rights Movement

Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
March (Books 1-3) by John Lewis
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharris
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 by Taylor Branch

Science/Medicine

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, MD
Hidden Figures by Margot Shetterly
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Slave narratives

12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Sports

Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teamsby Robert W. Peterson
Southern League: The True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South’s Most Compelling Pennant Race by Larry Colton
Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever by Don Haskins and Daniel Wetzel

Travel

Mississippi Solo: A River Quest by Eddy L. Harris
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

Women

Becoming by Michelle Obama
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Hidden Figures by Margot Shetterly
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharris

Adult Fiction

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Salvage the Bones or Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Young Adult Nonfiction (Older Kids and Teens)

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists who Changed the World by Laura Barcella
March graphic series by John Lewis (trilogy, graphic nonfiction)
Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequality by Alison Behnke
Trouble Maker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman (young adult biography)

Young Adult Fiction (Older Kids and Teens)

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
American Street by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
American Girl, Melody: March on Washington by Bonnie Bader
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
If You’re Going to a March by Martha Freeman
Monster by Walter Dean Myer
One Crazy Sumer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz

Young Children (Picture book format)

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Love Will See You Through: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Six Guiding Beliefs (As Told by His Niece) by Angela Farris Watkins
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier
My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock by Aslan and Kelly Tudor

‘We Need Diverse Books’ is a favorite website for locating books for children which promote diversity – https://diversebooks.org/

Feature Films

12 Years a Slave. Directed by Steve McQueen. A true story of a free black musician sold into slavery.
American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna. A story about two brothers in LA involved in the white supremacy and neo-Nazi movement.
Crash. Writer/director Paul Haggis interweaves several connected stories about race, class, family, and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11.
Dear White People. A film about multi-racial students experiencing race, specifically on a college campus.
Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee takes on racial tensions that erupt during a hot day in a poor black New York City neighborhood.
Get Out. A horror film made to show the audience what racially motivated anxiety of being a black person feels like in a fictional but truth-based movie.
Hidden Figures. Three brilliant African-American women at NASA working in the space program as some of the brains behind the launching of John Glenn into space. More person-centered than the book, which explores the larger cultural context of time and place.
Loving. Interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving fall in love and get married in 1958, then arrested as it is against the law.
Malcolm X. Spike Lee’s tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation.
When They See Us. Ava DuVernay’s raw look into the infamous 1980 Central Park Five Case.

Documentaries

13th. Ava DuVernay’s documentary about the13th Amendment and its impact on incarceration.
The Apollo. The tale of one of the first theaters that allowed Black people to both attend and perform.
Dark Girls. In this emotional and heartfelt documentary directors Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry set out to examine why skin-color bias persists among people of African descent, and how it affects the lives of women on the receiving end.
Eyes on the Prize. PBS multi-part series on the civil rights movement.
Freedom Riders. PBS film about the challenges to interstate travel laws.
Here I Stand. An extraordinary documentary directed by St. Clair Bourne originally aired on PBS as part of the “American Masters” series. It charts the life and artistry of Paul Robeson (1898-1976) who won international acclaim as a concert performer, stage actor, recording artist, and film actor.
I Am Not Your Negro. A film lecture based on the book James Baldwin never finished to examine race in America then and now.
Neshoba: The Price of Freedom. The trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the man who orchestrated the killings of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney.
Nina Simone – What Happened, Miss Simone? Classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon, and legendary recording artist Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy.
White People. MTV’s ‘White People’ is a groundbreaking documentary on race that aims to look at that topic from the viewpoint of young white people living in America today.

1- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson. Publisher:‎Random House ISBN: ‎978-0-679-44432-9

2- The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
Edited by Rochelle Riley Published by Wayne State University Press
Foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones ISBN: 9780814345153

3- The Souls of Black Folk A Book by W. E. B. Du Bois
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10: 1505223377 ISBN-13: 978-1505223378

4- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau; ISBN-10: 0812993543
ISBN-13: 978-0812993547

5- Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in
America by Tanner Colby
ISBN 067002371X (ISBN13: 9780670023714)

6- Parting The Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster ISBN-978-0-671-68742-7

7- Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
ISBN-13 978-0-684-84809-9

8- At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster ISBN 978-0-684-85713-8

9- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson, Ph.D. Bloomsbury ISBN 978-1-63286-412-3

10- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg Viking ISBN 978-0-670-78597-1

11- American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Norton ISBN 0-393-32494-X

12- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook
Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Touchstone ISBN 978-0-7432-9628-1

13- From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for
Racial Equality by Micheal J. Klarman
Oxford University Press ISBN0-19-512903-2

14- Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas
in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Nation Books ISBN 9781568584645