Browsing: Civil Rights

In 1856, Washington was born into a family of slaves in Virginia. From there it seemed that his fate had…

In this “brilliant, painful, important” autobiography (The New York Times), civil rights activist Malcolm X chronicles his extraordinary life and passionate fight for equality. “A monument to the most painful truth” (The Nation), with over 110,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.

The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward…

A #1 New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2015 hailed as “required reading” (Toni Morrison): Written as a powerful letter from father to son, this Pulitzer Prize finalist offers “a riveting meditation on the state of race in America” (The Washington Post).

Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifesto Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau…

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York MagazineTwo-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage…

A Pulitzer Prize–winning account with over 6,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: When four Black men were accused of sexual assault in 1940s Florida, attorney Thurgood Marshall — who went on to become a Supreme Court justice — risked his life to fight a racist criminal justice system and the Ku Klux Klan.

The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the…

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book…

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSIn this iconic memoir of…