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Black Lives Matter: Books & Other Library Resources

A guide to informational resources related to civil rights and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Featured Books

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity In a World Made For Whiteness

How to Be an Antiracist

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Wilmington's Lie: the Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

Ferguson's Fault Lines: the Race Quake That Rocked a Nation

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

On Account of Race: the Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights

Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015

Bending Toward Justice: the Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, Messages, and a New Mandate for Self-Care

Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle For Economic Justice In St. Louis

Understanding Mass Incarceration: a People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time

Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 (eBook)

Freedom Dreams: the Black Radical Imagination (eBook)

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the Streets

How We Fight For Our Lives: a Memoir

We Were Eight Years In Power: an American Tragedy

Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: an Exemplar For Contemporary Black Studies

So You Want to Talk About Race

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Also available on DVD.

We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival

Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom: Notes from a White Professor

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism In America

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

We Matter: Athletes and Activism

Bury My Heart In a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals In Modern U.S. History

Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections From the Deep South, 1964-1980

Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality

To Describe a Life: Notes From the Intersection of Art and Race Terror

Searching For Black Confederates: the Civil War's Most Persistent Myth

Mainstreaming Black Power

Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

13 Days In Ferguson

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation In 1960s Chicago

The Voting Rights War: the NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle For Justice

The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America

When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir

Democracy In Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Among Others : Blackness at MoMA

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement

The Battle For the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God

Black Stats: African Americans By the Numbers In the Twenty-First Century

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight For Economic Justice

Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle For Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

The NFL National Anthem Protests

White Identity Politics

On the Other Side of Freedom: the Case for Hope

Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics

Police Use of Excessive Force Against African Americans: Historical Antecedents and Community Perceptions

Colorblind: the Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

The Psychology of Racial Colorblindness: a Critical Review

Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975

Seeing White: an Introduction to White Privilege and Race

Black Community Uplift and the Myth of the American Dream

Stay Woke: a People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

A Black Women's History of the United States

Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights

Protest!: a History of Social and Political Protest Graphics

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Black Comix Returns

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, New Perspectives

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