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10 best books like On Lynchings (Ida B. Wells-Barnett): Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950, The Mountaintop, The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Selected Poems, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Women and Economics, Zeely, Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History, Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
AuthorGlenda Elizabeth Gilmore
ISBN0393062449
The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists,...
The Mountaintop
AuthorKatori Hall
ISBN1408147033
Winner of  the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, “I may not get there with...
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
AuthorWahneema Lubiano
ISBN0679760687
In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society. 

The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy...
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
AuthorElizabeth Martínez
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
Selected Poems
AuthorClaude McKay
ISBN0486408760
In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889–1948), reveals much about the wellspring of his poetry.
"I am a black man, born in Jamaica, B.W.I., and have been living in America for the last years. It was the first time I had ever come face to face with such manifest,...
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
AuthorDavid Levering Lewis
ISBN0140170367
What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...
Women and Economics
AuthorCharlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN1602060347
Startling in its observations and radical in its conclusions, this classic of women's rights literature, this work-by pioneering American feminist CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)-was a phenomenon when it was first published in 1898, and was eventually translated into in seven languages...
Zeely
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN1416914137
"We'll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we've never ever gone alone like this!" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- Geeder and Toeboy.

The farm is special too, with its...
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History
AuthorVicki L. Ruiz
ISBN0415925177
In the Introduction trace the evolution of women's history. First it was mono-racial (only focused on white women in the North, then it became bi-racial (encompassing black and white women in the south), and finally it is now becoming multicultural. This new multicultural history privileges the...
Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story
AuthorFellowship of Reconciliation
Nearly sixty years after its creation, a little-known landmark of comic book history returns! This 16-page comic is a simple but revolutionary account of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which Rosa Parks, Dr. King, and 50,000 others used the power of nonviolence to battle segregation on city buses...
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)
AuthorJ. Todd Moye
ISBN0195386558
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee...
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
AuthorMia Bay
ISBN0809095297
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a “dangerous radical” in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists...
A Model of Christian Charity
AuthorJohn Winthrop
This is the original source of the "like a shining city on a hill" meme that conservatives like to pose as a model for the United States, apparently unaware that the rest of the text is full of stuff they would denounce as socialism (e.g. "...the care of the public must oversway all private respects, by which,...
Gender and Discourse
AuthorDeborah Tannen
ISBN0195101243
Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve. For...
The Prison Industrial Complex
AuthorAngela Y. Davis
ISBN1902593227
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite...
Here I Stand
AuthorPaul Robeson
ISBN0304703516
First published in 1958 and re-issued to mark the centenary of Robeson's birth, these memoirs paint a remarkable portrait of an amazing man - talented and successful worldwide as a singer and actor, and a passionate and outspoken critic of racism in American society. The most celebrated black American...
The Narrows
AuthorAnn Petry
ISBN0618007105
When Link Williams, a college-educated twenty-six-year-old African-American man, falls for Camilo Sheffield, a wealthy married white woman, things will never be the same in the sleepy New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut. Set in the 1950s, this unforgettable classic deftly evokes a tragic...
Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
AuthorJim Downs
ISBN0199758727
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking...
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
AuthorKhalil Gibran Muhammad
ISBN0674035976
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.

Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African...
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
AuthorSara Ahmed
ISBN0822352362
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary even unremarkable...
100 Years of Lynchings
AuthorRalph Ginzburg
ISBN0933121180
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The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0802853528
Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the struggle against oppression. 

In this book the Beatitudes -- from Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount -- form the backdrop for Carole Boston Weatherford's powerful free-verse poem that traces...
Turkey Unveiled
AuthorNicole Pope
ISBN1585675814
Tracing the rise of the country that transformed itself in the twentieth century from an agrarian society to an affluent, prominent republic, this new, definitive edition of Turkey Unveiled includes new photos, maps, and key information on Turkey's new-found prominent position in current global...
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