Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

6 best books like Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman (Cathy Wilkerson): Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Blood in My Eye

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Author	Timothy B. Tyson
ISBN	0807849235

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers...

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

Author	Clayborne Carson
ISBN	0674447271

With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and...

The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb

Author	George Feifer
ISBN	1585742155

A definitive book on the horrific Battle of Okinawa which was fought from April to June, 1945. My dad fought in this battle and was surprised that he survived. He didn't speak much about it, but I believe it haunted him his whole life.

George Feifer carefully researched the book. this is a nonfiction,...

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination

Author	Alondra Nelson
ISBN	0816676488

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but...

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Author	Akinyele Omowale Umoja
ISBN	0814725244

"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking...

Blood in My Eye

Author

George L. Jackson

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one...