The 1968 suggested reading published by in the Black Panther's newsletter
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last updated February, 2026
Native Son
Richard Wright
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward
The Negro in Our History (1922)
Carter G. Woodson
World's Great Men of Color, Volume I
J.A. Rogers
Africa's Gift to America
We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People
William L. Patterson
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
Malcom x Speaks
Malcolm X
The Black Muslims in America
C. Eric Lincoln
Blues People
Le Roi Jones
Muntu: African Culture and the Western World
Janheinz Jahn
A History of Negro Revolt (Classic Reprint)
C.L.R. James
The Myth of The Negro Past
Melville J. Herskovits
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9)
Marcus Garvey
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
Michael Harrington
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America
E. Franklin Frazier
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
John Hope Franklin
Studies in a Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon -
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Emily Bernard
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
W.E.B. Du Bois
Black Moses
Alain Mabanckou
American Negro Poetry
Arna Bontemps
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
Lerone Bennett Jr.
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions" (African American)
Herbert Aptheker
I Speak of Freedom
The Lost Cities of Africa
Basil Davidson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
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