Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
4.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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1. Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture)
By: Barbara Ransby
4.33
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most in… read more
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2. Negroland
By: Margo Jefferson
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply … read more
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3. My Beloved World
By: Sonia Sotomayor
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life… read more
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4. The House at Sugar Beach
By: Helene Cooper
3.71
Format: 244 pages,
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of i… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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7. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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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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9. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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10. Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
By: Rachel Jamison Webster
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Placing famed almanac writer Benjamin Banneker at the forefront, Benjamin Banneker and Us weaves to… read more
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11. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
By: Joanna Schwartz
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more
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12. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
13. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
By: Keisha N. Blain
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies highlighting their relevance for tackl… read more
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14. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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15. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
16. 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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17. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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18. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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19. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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20. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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21. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
By: Lisa McCubbin Hill
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First… read more
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22. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
23. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
By: Robin DiAngelo
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more
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"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
24. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
25. White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
By: A.J. Baime
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white… read more
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"The sooner you people find that you can't depend on David and the Lord," Darrow said, "but get busy yourselves, the better off you will be. If the Lord was going to do anything for you, he would've d…"-A.J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
26. Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
By: Dan Abrams
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Poignant, sometimes harrowing." – Wall Street Journal The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, … read more
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27. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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28. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more
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29. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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30. The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
By: Jonathan Daniel Wells
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled fo… read more
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31. Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
By: Andrew C. McKevitt
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, … read more
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