Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Kate Clifford Larson
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, fi…
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1. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Carole Boston Weatherford , Ekua Holmes
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recol… read more
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- history
- biography
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2. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
3. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
4. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
5. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- american history
- race
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- social justice
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
6. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
7. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
8. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
4.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
9. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
10. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
11. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- politics
- race
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
12. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
13. Coleman Hill
By: Kim Coleman Foote
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more
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- race
14. Summer on Highland Beach (Summer Beach, #3)
By: Sunny Hostin
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach… read more
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15. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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16. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- race
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
17. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
By: ReShonda Tate
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more
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- race
18. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
19. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
By: Sheldon Whitehouse
4.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” ( Kirk… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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21. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
22. Three Girls from Bronzeville
By: Dawn Turner
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and h… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
23. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and a… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
24. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
By: Carol Anderson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling—and timely—h… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
"One delegate questioned him: "Will it not be done by fraud and discrimination?" "By fraud, no. By discrimination, yes," Glass retorted."-Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
"Arkansas, for example, raised "only 5 percent of [its] total school budget by the poll tax, a tax that [kept] a good 80 percent of [the state's] adult citizens from voting."-Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
"In short, Virginia ensured that there would be schooling for whites but not blacks; and after that, the state changed its laws so that those who were illiterate would not be able to vote."-Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
"The tools of Jim Crow disfranchisement worked all too well. In 1867, the percentage of African American adults registered to vote in Mississippi was 66.9 percent; by 1955, it was 4.3 percent."-Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
25. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
By: Richard Grant
4.03
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
26. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Kate Clifford Larson
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, fi… read more
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- race
- biography
- history
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- activism
27. Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
By: Jenn M. Jackson
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is … read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- womens
28. La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island
By: Corky Parker
3.97
Format: None pages, ebook
Winner, 2022 Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir Winner, 2022 Univerity Press Award for Book & Cover Desi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
30. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
By: Robert P. Jones
4.55
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
31. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
By: Russ Buettner
4.56
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
