Books

Nearly 200 books spanning civil rights, Black Power, education, policing, abolition, culture, and internationalism

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Donna Murch
From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
Jakobi Williams
Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
Trevor Griffey and David Goldberg
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
Brian Purnell
Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era
Clarence Taylor
From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution
Michael O. West, William G. Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Akinyele Umoja
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
Mary Frances Berry
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
Barbara Ransby
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis
Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings Of John Edward Bruce
William Seraile
Hubert Harrison
Jeffrey Perry
Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Mary Rolinson
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baraka
So What: The Life of Miles Davis
John Szwed
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Ingrid Monson
Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Annelise Orleck
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States
Premilla Nadasen
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
Susan Youngblood Ashmore
Black Power TV
Devorah Heitner
Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
Jonna Perrillo
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Craig Steven Wilder
Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
Emilye Crosby
Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, and Dayo Gore
Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
Carl Nightingale
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Peniel Joseph
Harlem vs Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
Stefan Bradley
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
Robert Curvin
Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Junius Williams
Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition
Charles Payne and Carol Sills Strickland
Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change
Barbara Winslow
The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
Laura Hill and Julia Rabig
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination
Alondra Nelson
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting
Rosemari Mealy
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Victoria Law
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
Safiya Bukhari, edited by Laura Whitehorn
The Muslims are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Arun Kundnani
Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
Dayo Gore
How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
Ruth Feldstein
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Tanisha Ford
Florence "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Sherie Randolph
Whose Harlem Is This Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
Shannon King
Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century
Rhonda Williams
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Erik McDuffie
The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
Kenneth Janken
Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York
Kevin McGruder, Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, and Quinton Hosford Dixie
Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Jennifer Scanlon
Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
Matthew Delmont
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
Carla Shedd
Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits
Ansley Erickson
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed, edited by Caleb Smith
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Aldon Morris
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Aram Goudsouzian
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
Keisha N. Blain, Kidada E. Williams, and Chad Williams
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Sarah Haley
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Anne Meis Knupfer
Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
Erik Gellman
A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
Crystal Sanders
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs
Stephen Ward
Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion
Jamala Rogers
Black Power 50
Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodard
North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
Mark Speltz
Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
V. P. Franklin and Bettye Collier-Thomas
The Black Panther Party Reconsidered
Charles E. Jones
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Robyn C. Spencer
A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer H. Lansbury
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Johnny Smith
In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime
Michael Flamm
Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York
Cathy Schneider
The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society
Mark Krasovic
Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
Katherine Charron
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
Ashley Farmer
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
Charles Payne
Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s
Christopher Tinson
Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
Keona Ervin
Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism
Nishani Frazier
The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
Patrick Jones
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Haki Madhubuti and Michael Simanga
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump's Stolen America
Haki Madhubuti and Lasana Kazembe
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
Noliwe Rooks
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
Jeanne Theoharis, Brian Purnell, and Komozi Woodard
History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
Mary Frances Berry
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Thomas Jackson
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
Sasha Turner
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Sowande' Mustakeem
Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
Gabriel Mendes
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Gloria Browne-Marshall
Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
Liz Theoharis, Rick Lowery, and William Barber
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Howard Bryant
The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
Keith Gilyard
The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Taylor
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N. Blain
Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
Clarence Taylor
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
Naomi Murakawa
Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
Max Felker-Kantor
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
LaShawn Harris
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
Simon Balto
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Flint Taylor
Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
Stefan Bradley
SOS--Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
John Bracey, Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst
Black Power in the Bluff City: African American Youth and Student Activism in Memphis, 1965-1975
Shirletta Kinchen
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
Louis Moore
A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
Dave Zirin
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
Wyomia Tyus
Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Beryl Satter
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
Nathan Connolly
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Rachel Devlin
Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Devin Fergus
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz
The Young Lords: A Radical History
Johanna Fernandez
What's Race Got To Do with It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality
Bree Picower, Edwin Mayorga, and Ujju Aggarwal
Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
Ernest Morell and Ansley Erickson
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Carol Anderson
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha Jones
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman
An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Garrett Felber
Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Carl Suddler
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Pamela Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Peniel Joseph
A Black Women's History of the United States
Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Young Readers Edition
Jeanne Theoharis
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Robin D. G. Kelley
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
Shana Redmond
Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Rickey Vincent
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Dierdre Cooper Owens
Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace
Stephanie Y. Evans
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital
Martin Summers
Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
Stuart Schrader
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law
Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism
Daniel Chard
Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
Marisol LeBron
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Davarian Baldwin
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Jarvis Givens
A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s
Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
Moya Bailey
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Emily Thuma
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
Laura Lovett
City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
Tammy L. Brown
The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
Christopher Hayes
Pushing Back: Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City
Ariella Rotramel
Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground
Robin Hayes
Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Edward Onaci
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Monica White
Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement
D'Weston Haywood
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Adom Getachew
Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
Justene Edwards
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
Peter James Hudson
Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump
Daniel Lucks
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Carol Anderson
Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001
Dan Berger and Emily Hobson
The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire
Erica R. Edwards
America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
Treva Lindsey
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. Blain
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Dorothy Roberts
Radical Reproductive Justice
Loretta J. Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater Toure
The Streets Belong To Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
Anne Gray Fischer
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven William Thrasher
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice
Zakiya Luna
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Dana-Ain Davis
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
Kabria Baumgartner
A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools
Michael Hines
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History
Brian Jones
The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City
Christopher Bonastia