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Nearly 200 books spanning civil rights, Black Power, education, policing, abolition, culture, and internationalism
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- Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
- From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
- Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
- Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
- Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era
- From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution
- We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
- And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
- Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
- Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of John Edward Bruce
- Hubert Harrison
- Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
- Blues People: Negro Music in White America
- So What: The Life of Miles Davis
- Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
- Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
- Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States
- Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
- Black Power TV
- Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
- Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
- Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
- Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
- Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
- Harlem vs Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
- Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
- Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
- Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
- Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition
- Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change
- The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
- Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
- Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
- Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
- Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
- The Muslims are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
- Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
- Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
- Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
- Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
- How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
- Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
- Florence "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
- Whose Harlem Is This Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
- Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century
- Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
- The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
- Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York
- Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
- Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
- Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
- Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits
- The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
- The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
- Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
- Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
- No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
- The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
- Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
- A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
- In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
- Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion
- Black Power 50
- North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
- Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
- The Black Panther Party Reconsidered
- The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
- A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
- Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime
- Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York
- The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society
- Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
- Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
- I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
- Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s
- Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
- Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism
- The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
- Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
- Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump's Stolen America
- Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
- The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
- History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
- From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
- Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
- The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
- Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
- Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
- The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
- Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
- The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
- The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
- Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
- The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
- Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
- Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
- The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
- Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
- Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
- Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
- The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
- Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
- SOS--Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
- Black Power in the Bluff City: African American Youth and Student Activism in Memphis, 1965-1975
- We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
- A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
- Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
- Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
- A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
- Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
- Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- The Young Lords: A Radical History
- What's Race Got To Do with It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
- Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States
- Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
- Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
- City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
- Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
- The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- A Black Women's History of the United States
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Young Readers Edition
- Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
- W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
- Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
- Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
- Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace
- Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital
- Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
- "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
- Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
- Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
- In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
- A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s
- Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
- Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
- All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
- With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
- City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
- The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
- Pushing Back: Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City
- Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground
- Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
- Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
- Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
- Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
- Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
- Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump
- America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
- The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
- Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001
- The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire
- America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
- Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
- Radical Reproductive Justice
- The Streets Belong To Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
- The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
- Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
- In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
- A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools
- The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History
- The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City