Law & Crime
To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
Publisher: New Press An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisis “A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century...
$27.99
The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.Some of the most iconic images of the Civil...
$29.95
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent...
$30.00
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
Publisher: Haymarket Books In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community...
$45.00
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Publisher: Penguin Books The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even...
$30.00
The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of...
$27.95
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Publisher: Metropolitan Books A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceThe fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil...
$29.99
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Publisher: Simon & Schuster In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and...
$25.00
On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC Award-winning constitutional law historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reveal the court's longstanding support for white supremacy (often under the guise of "states rights") and how that bias has allowed the court to solidify its position...
$26.00
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
Publisher: Beacon Press An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music.Odetta channeled her anger and despair into some of the most powerful...
$28.95
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
Publisher: Amistad Press Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness,...
$17.99
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux "[A] masterly and often riveting account of King’s ordeal and the 1960 'October Surprise' that may have altered the course of modern American political history." —Raymond Arsenault, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)The authors of Douglass...
$28.00
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Publisher: Beacon Press A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a...
$29.95
I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith...
$40.00
Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the...
$38.00
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a heart-wrenching testimony before the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) Credentials Committee. In this speech, Hamer represented both the concerns of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the limits...
$34.00
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation The basis of a major PBS documentary by Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns (first airing: October 13, 2020 at 9PM ET), this revelatory history shows how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. It’s hardly a...
$28.95
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
Publisher: Little Brown and Company The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize FinalistThe "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small...
$28.00
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation
Publisher: Pegasus Books An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans—one black and one white. The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre, arguably the worst in our country’s history, has been widely unknown for the better part of a century, thanks...
$27.95
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Publisher: St. Martin's Press A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward―written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures...
$26.99