202 Books in the Political Science / Civil Rights Category

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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State Visibly Invisible: The Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It The Nine O’Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth Letter from Birmingham Jail New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Why Does Everything Have to Be about Race?: 25 Arguments That Won’t Go Away Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today’s Civil Rights Movement Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics A Burst of Light: and Other Essays We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Reparations! Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century I Have a Dream Game: An Autobiography His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - With a New Introduction by the Author How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress: 1946-1956 The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America My Vanishing Country: A Memoir There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution The Substance Of Hope: Barack Obama And The Paradox Of Progress Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City My Vanishing Country The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 So You Want to Talk About Race How to Be an Antiracist How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump’s War on Civil Rights One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland Your Black Friend They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Black Power 50 Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Stokely: A Life Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Civil Rights For Beginners This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Complete Muhammad Ali Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media) Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America March Book Two Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 Blackballed: The Black Vote And Us Democracy Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream Dear Sir, I Intend To Burn Your Book: An Anatomy Of A Book Burning (Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture) The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks “ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice Race-Baiter: How The Media Wields Dangerous Words To Divide A Nation Message to the Movement (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy) The Negro Problem Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC Colorblind: The Rise Of Post-Racial Politics And The Retreat From Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media) Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, And A World On The Brink The Black Power Movement: Rethinking The Civil Rights-Black Power Era African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids Civil Rights Childhood Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of Education Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past, A Memoir America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Like A Mighty Stream The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Rh Trade Pbk) Witnessing and Testifying Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works Tough Notes: A Healing Call For Creating Exceptional Black Men Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn’t Work for Blacks Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Black Politics / White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) Soul on Ice What’s Going On Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised) Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement David Walker’s Appeal Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X The Fire Next Time Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley Malcolm X Speaks (Cloth) Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr: From “Solo” to Memphis Pioneers in Protest