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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George L. Jackson
Blood in My Eye
Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Elaine Brown
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Black Boy
Richard Wright
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Kellie Carter Jackson
An Autobiography
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Jeffrey Haas
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
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