Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
9 best books like Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy (Bruce Watson): Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Long Walk To Freedom, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0307452891 |
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
| Author | Paula J. Giddings |
| ISBN | 0688146503 |
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
| Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
| ISBN | 0805075399 |
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0349116024 |
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 0679758690 |
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, preached, and debated at camp meetings across the country, led by her devotion to the antislavery movement and her ardent pursuit of women's rights. Born into slavery in 1797, Truth fled from bondage some...
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
| Author | Ira Katznelson |
| ISBN | 0393328511 |
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory...
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
| Author | Taylor Branch |
| ISBN | 0684857138 |
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement...
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
| Author | Charles M. Payne |
| ISBN | 0520251768 |
"In the minds of untold numbers of Americans, for example, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was the civil rights movement. Thought it up, led it, produced its victories, became its sole martyr. Schoolchildren- including Black schoolchildren- are taught this."
-Fred Powledge
Charles...
