1 · Start Here — The Big Picture
1Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Lerone Bennett Jr.Buy →
2From Slavery to Freedom
John Hope Franklin & Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamBuy →
3Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. KendiBuy →
4Four Hundred Souls
ed. Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. BlainBuy →
2 · Before the Chains — Africa & the Ancient World
5The African Origin of Civilization
Cheikh Anta DiopBuy →
6The Golden Rhinoceros
François-Xavier FauvelleBuy →
7Africa: A Biography of the Continent
John ReaderBuy →
3 · Resistance & Revolution
8The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. JamesBuy →
9The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward E. BaptistBuy →
10Slavery by Another Name
Douglas A. BlackmonBuy →
4 · The Voices Themselves — Primary Sources & Memoir
11Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassBuy →
12The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, as told to Alex HaleyBuy →
13Up from Slavery
Booker T. WashingtonBuy →
14Assata: An Autobiography
Assata ShakurBuy →
5 · Reconstruction, the Great Migration & Jim Crow
15Black Reconstruction in America
W.E.B. Du BoisBuy →
16The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel WilkersonBuy →
17On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-ReedBuy →
18The New Jim Crow
Michelle AlexanderBuy →
6 · Hidden Figures & Untold Stories
19Hidden Figures
Margot Lee ShetterlyBuy →
20The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du BoisBuy →
7 · Culture, Literature & Joy
21Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale HurstonBuy →
22The Fire Next Time
James BaldwinBuy →
23How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. KendiBuy →
8 · For Younger Readers & Educators
24Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. KendiBuy →
25This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany JewellBuy →
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