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  • Steven Rogers The best books about Black History and the reasons behind the enormous racial wealth gap Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States Book cover of Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Book cover of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  • Christina Proenza-Coles The best books on how African Americans shaped democracy in America Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Book cover of A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 Book cover of Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
  • Susanna Ashton The best books with new discoveries in Black History Book cover of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative Book cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Book cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
  • James Overmyer The best books on Black baseball leagues before Jackie Robinson Book cover of Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams Book cover of If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige Book cover of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy Book cover of Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player Book cover of Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
  • Marcia Chatelain The best books about racial capitalism and the USA Book cover of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida Book cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Book cover of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 Book cover of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Book cover of Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
  • Jonathan Shandell The best books about Black culture and history in the Civil Rights era Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Book cover of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy Book cover of Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance
  • Marcia E. Herman-Giddens The best books on ancestry, genealogy, racial justice and travel to find the truth Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth Book cover of The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 Book cover of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  • Kellie Carter Jackson The best books that center on black resistance to white supremacy with a path toward liberation Book cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action Book cover of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Book cover of Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
  • Anna Mae Duane The best books about 19th-century Black New Yorkers you wish you had learned about in history class Book cover of The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict Book cover of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 Book cover of Freedom Fire Book cover of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Book cover of Stories of Freedom in Black New York
  • Nina Silber The best books on the ongoing legacy of the American Civil War Book cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory Book cover of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Book cover of On Juneteenth Book cover of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Book cover of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
  • Katie McCabe The best books about Black women disruptors Book cover of The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Book cover of Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Book cover of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
  • Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani The best books about home, belonging, and struggle through the stories of real people Book cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape Book cover of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It Book cover of Fragile Dwelling: How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own Book cover of Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • James Traub The best books about the run-up to the American Civil War Book cover of Ordeal of the Union, Vol. 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852 Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Book cover of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era Book cover of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War Book cover of "There Is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
  • Frank J. Cirillo The best books on the long and difficult fight against slavery in America Book cover of Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race Book cover of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Book cover of Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Book cover of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Book cover of Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
  • Fergus M. Bordewich The best books on the bloody history of Reconstruction Book cover of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era Book cover of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I Book cover of Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy Book cover of The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Book cover of The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Greta de Jong The best books on race and class in the United States Book cover of The Invention of the White Race Vol II Book cover of Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy Book cover of Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Book cover of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
  • Lawrence Goldstone The best books for white people to learn (just a little) about Black people Book cover of Colored People: A Memoir Book cover of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches Book cover of I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey Book cover of I Can't Wait on God Book cover of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
  • Richard Paul The best books about race and racism in America during the time of the space program Book cover of Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr Book cover of The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama Book cover of Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South Book cover of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980 Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Justin Iverson The best books on Black resistance to slavery Book cover of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Book cover of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Book cover of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Book cover of Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies Book cover of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
  • Christian Pinnen The best books on race and slavery in the colonial lower Mississippi Valley Book cover of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Book cover of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Book cover of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana Book cover of Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana Book cover of Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
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