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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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The Second Founding

By Eric Foner ,

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Notes of a Native Son
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Notes of a Native Son

By James Baldwin ,

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

By Harry Belafonte , Michael Shnayerson ,

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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

By Katya Apekina ,

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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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We Have Been Harmonized

By Kai Strittmatter ,

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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality
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Stuck in Place

By Patrick Sharkey ,

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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
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Redemption

By Joseph Rosenbloom ,

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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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Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
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Right to Ride

By Blair L.M. Kelley ,

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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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Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
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Occupied Territory

By Simon Balto ,

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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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Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
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Represented

By Brenna Wynn Greer ,

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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
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Breaking White Supremacy

By Gary Dorrien ,

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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
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Torchbearers of Democracy

By Chad L. Williams ,

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Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies
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Detroit 1967

By Joel Stone (editor) ,

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Memphis 68
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Memphis 68

By Stuart Cosgrove ,

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
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Sit-In

By Andrea Davis Pinkney , Brian Pinkney (illustrator) ,

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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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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
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Separate Is Never Equal

By Duncan Tonatiuh ,

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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
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Beasts of Burden

By Sunaura Taylor ,

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Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism
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Black Rights/White Wrongs

By Charles W. Mills ,

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Stella by Starlight
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Stella by Starlight

By Sharon M. Draper ,

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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
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Angry White Men

By Michael Kimmel ,

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The Right to Maim
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The Right to Maim

By Jasbir K. Puar ,

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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

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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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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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We've Got a Job

By Cynthia Levinson ,

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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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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
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Redefining Rape

By Estelle B. Freedman ,

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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
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How Race Is Made in America

By Natalia Molina ,

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Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
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Citizen Strangers

By Shira Robinson ,

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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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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
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Black against Empire

By Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr. ,

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One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
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One Blood

By John Perkins ,

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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White Rage

By Carol Anderson ,

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As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March toward Freedom
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As Good as Anybody

By Richard Michelson , Raul Colon (illustrator) ,

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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an

By Denise Spellberg ,

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Tomorrow Will Be Different
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Tomorrow Will Be Different

By Sarah McBride , Joe Biden (foreword) ,

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Queer Migration Politics
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Queer Migration Politics

By Karma R. Chávez ,

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