To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
10 best books like To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Mia Bay): Up from Slavery, Twelve Years a Slave, Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
| Author | Booker T. Washington |
| ISBN | 0451527542 |
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...
Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black...
| Author | Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| ISBN | 0312116950 |
After reading these accounts from late 19th and early 20th century U.S.A. of lynching by mostly white men with complicity and at times instigation and encouragement from white women, against black men, women and children, I am disgusted and discouraged with humanity. Although I had heard the song...
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...
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
| Author | Elaine Brown |
| ISBN | 0385471076 |
elaine brown was appointed charperson of the black panther party in the 70s, after huey p. newton was sent packing off to jail again. she headed up the party during a fractious period in its history. she was responsible for dismantling national offices & bringing the focus of the party back to oakland,...
| Author | Lori D. Ginzberg |
| ISBN | 0809094932 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation’s promise of radical...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0613630866 |
This is a biography that actually merits the “magisterial” among its blurbs, the kind of book that shows biography second only to the novel for difficulty of organization and effect. As epigraph to the first of the five volumes he would devote to the life of Henry James, Leon Edel quoted a line from...
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X
| Author | Malcolm X |
| ISBN | 1559700068 |
The introduction to Malcolm X The End of White Supremacy is filled with real History that you won’t read in text books. Although I disagree with Malcolm X on some major points, he will always be my favorite civil rights leader!
Malcolm X The End of White Supremacy contains four speechs:
The...
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0802717926 |
A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.
In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
| Author | Rachel Devlin |
| ISBN | 1541697332 |
A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education
The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation...
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 0883448246 |
Professor Cone has done much research in comparing the lives, careers, and teachings of the two leading figures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose lives were both cut short by assassins. Cone argues that each was important in his own right,...
