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Civil Rights Books
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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 578 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,976,766 ratings — published 2009
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,897 ratings — published 2013
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,736,541 ratings — published 1960
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.37 — 286,815 ratings — published 1965
March: Book Two (March, #2)
by (shelved 137 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.49 — 28,944 ratings — published 2015
March: Book Three (March, #3)
by (shelved 135 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.64 — 21,495 ratings — published 2016
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,329 ratings — published 1995
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,620 ratings — published 2010
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.15 — 92,175 ratings — published 2014
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.46 — 993,004 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.55 — 116,576 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.62 — 256,506 ratings — published 2014
One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,380 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,329 ratings — published 2015
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,009 ratings — published 1988
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,462 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,230 ratings — published 2010
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,306 ratings — published 2014
The Lions of Little Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,617 ratings — published 2012
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 79 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.25 — 296,869 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,341,779 ratings — published 2001
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,855 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,620 ratings — published 2019
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Audio CD)
by (shelved 71 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,589 ratings — published 2014
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,217 ratings — published 2009
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,410 ratings — published 2010
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,020 ratings — published 1998
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,979 ratings — published 1995
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,014 ratings — published 2016
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,811 ratings — published 2015
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,626 ratings — published 2017
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (ebook)
by (shelved 63 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,858 ratings — published 2012
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 62 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 3.90 — 129,206 ratings — published 1976
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,341 ratings — published 1961
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,644 ratings — published 1845
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,472 ratings — published 2018
Let the Children March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,049 ratings — published 2018
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,713 ratings — published 2017
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,909 ratings — published 2006
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,447 ratings — published 1903
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,496 ratings — published 2016
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.47 — 53,696 ratings — published 2020
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,880 ratings — published 2015
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 3.31 — 287,940 ratings — published 2015
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.06 — 436,835 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.30 — 572,321 ratings — published 1969
The Other Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,555 ratings — published 2001
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 49 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,741 ratings — published 2018
Stella by Starlight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.09 — 15,295 ratings — published 2015
Rosa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as civil-rights)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,857 ratings — published 2005
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
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“A racist cop pulls over a black driver for little reason other than the fact that the driver is black and a recent robbery was committed by a couple of young black guys in a white community. The cop quickly realizes the driver is not one of the robbery suspects. He sees a man with a wife and two small children. They are not a couple of young punks. Still,he persists. Why?
“He asks to see the driver’s license and registration. While locating the appropriate documents, the black driver respectfully volunteers that he is legally carrying a handgun. The cop panics—is it the image of a black man with a gun? He barks out conflicting orders and then shoots the man
to death, in front of his family. Why? “Is it because the cop is an insensitive racist? Maybe he wasn’t trained or taught any better? Perhaps he lived a completely different life in a completely different world than that of the black man. In this cop’s world, were all black men potential criminals, people to be watched, people to be feared?”
― Betrayal In Black
“He asks to see the driver’s license and registration. While locating the appropriate documents, the black driver respectfully volunteers that he is legally carrying a handgun. The cop panics—is it the image of a black man with a gun? He barks out conflicting orders and then shoots the man
to death, in front of his family. Why? “Is it because the cop is an insensitive racist? Maybe he wasn’t trained or taught any better? Perhaps he lived a completely different life in a completely different world than that of the black man. In this cop’s world, were all black men potential criminals, people to be watched, people to be feared?”
― Betrayal In Black
