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Recommended
Books on the Civil Rights Movement and Black
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W.E.B.
Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1819-1919
Part I and
Part II
by
David Levering Lewis
While
telling the story of the long career of an American
leader of the newly born civil rights movement,
this biography is indeed a biography of a race.
Part
I is the winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
and the Bancroft Award. Part
II won the 2002 Prize for Biography
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Carry
Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of
the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter
the
story of civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama in the
climactic struggle at gound zero
Winner
of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize
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Africana:
Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates.
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Parting
the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
by Taylor Branch
Award
winning account of the civil rights movement. Buy |
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Pillar
of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965
by Taylor Branch
The
second part of Branch's account of the civil rights
movement. Buy
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Autobiography
of a People: Three Centuries of African American
History Told By Those Who Lived It
edited
by Herb Boyd
First
person narratives organized both chronologically and
thematically. Buy
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Remembering
Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their
Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
by Ira Berlin
This
beautiful book comes with an audio tape containing interviews
with former slaves. Buy |
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Slave
Narratives
by Gates Jr. and William Andrews
10
of the most important of the slave narratives - the
story of slavery by the slaves themselves. Buy
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Africans
in America, America's
Journey Through Slavery
by Charles Johnson
An
excellent account of slavery in America which is history
mixed with fictional but authentic stories. Buy |
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Lest
We Forget:The Passage From Slavery to Emancipation
by Velma Maia Thomas
Based
on the Black Holocaust Exhibit, Lest We Forget.
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A
President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally
Hemmings, and Thomas Woodson
by Byron Woodson
Another
side of American history. The story of the Woodson
family, those descended from the first son of the
slave Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson and their
200 year battle for recognition. Buy
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