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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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The Power of Habit

By Charles Duhigg ,

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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
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The Narrow Corridor

By Daron Acemoglu , James A. Robinson ,

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis ,

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The Undefeated
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The Undefeated

By Kwame Alexander , Kadir Nelson (illustrator) ,

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Let the Children March
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Let the Children March

By Monica Clark-Robinson , Frank Morrison (illustrator) ,

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Malcolm X

By Manning Marable ,

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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
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Hands on the Freedom Plow

By Faith S. Holsaert (editor) , Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (editor) , Judy Richardson (editor) , Betty Garman Robinson (editor) , Jean Smith Young (editor) , Dorothy M. Zellner (editor)

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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
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Radical Vision

By Soyica Diggs Colbert ,

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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Black Gotham

By Carla L. Peterson ,

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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
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My Song

By Harry Belafonte , Michael Shnayerson ,

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How Long 'til Black Future Month?
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By N. K. Jemisin ,

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A History of America in Ten Strikes
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A History of America in Ten Strikes

By Erik Loomis ,

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Spheres of Influence: The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality: The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality
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Spheres of Influence

By Douglas S. Massey , Stefanie Brodmann ,

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If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement
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If Your Back's Not Bent

By Dorothy F. Cotton ,

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A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
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A Chance for Change

By Crystal R. Sanders ,

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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
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Coretta

By Coretta Scott King , Barbara Reynolds ,

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
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Southern Horrors

By Ida B. Wells ,

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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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Give Us the Ballot

By Ari Berman ,

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Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
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Becoming Belafonte

By Judith E. Smith ,

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Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins
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Someday Is Now

By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich , Jade Johnson (illustrator) ,

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Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
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Klansville, U.S.A.

By David Cunningham ,

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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
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Turn Me Loose

By Frank X Walker ,

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The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
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The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

By Michele Elam (editor) ,

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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
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Jane Crow

By Rosalind Rosenberg ,

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The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream
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The Speech

By Gary Younge ,

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The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
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The Struggle Is Eternal

By Joseph R. Fitzgerald ,

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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army

By Maegan Parker Brooks ,

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Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism
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Scalawag

By Edward H. Peeples , Nancy MacLean (editor) ,

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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When They Call You a Terrorist

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors , Asha Bandele ,

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March: Book Three
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March

By John Lewis , Andrew Aydin , Nate Powell (illustrator)

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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn

By Robert Watson ,

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Looking for Lorraine
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Looking for Lorraine

By Imani Perry ,

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