READING LIST
ADULTS
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Black Feminist Thought
by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist
by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy
by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands
by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness
by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Strong in Broken Places
Quentin Vennie
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
KIDS
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by AG Ford
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
by Art Coulson, illustrated by Nick Hardcastle
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock
by Aslan and Kelly Tudor
The Day You Begin
by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki
My Hair is a Garden
by Cozbi A. Cabrera
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
I Am Not A Number
by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
Something Happened in Our Town
by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by Renée Watson, illustrated by Christian Robinso
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Ruth and the Green Book
by Calvin Alexander Ramsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
We Are Grateful, Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
by Jabari Asim, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
When We Were Alone
by David A. Robertson, illustrated by Julie Flett
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jamey Christoph
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
by Vashti Harrison
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Lin Wang
Coretta Scott
by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
The Whispering Town
by Jennifer Elvgren, illustrated by Fabio Santomauro
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
When I Was Eight
by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
Rosa
by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up
By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice
by Carmen Tafolla and Sharyll Tenayuca, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez
The Boy and the Wall
by Palestinian refugee children in the Aida Refugee Camp
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“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us”
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists +https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By2bSlBi5slDbXB2enJ0RzN6c3M/view
”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant”
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The 1619 Project
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The Combahee River Collective Statement
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“The Intersectionality Wars”
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Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups
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”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
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“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”
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