United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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- Livin' the blues, memoirs of a Black journalist and poet, Frank Marshall Davis ; edited by John Edgar Tidwell
- Slavery by another name, the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
- Driving the Green Book, a road trip through the living history of black resistance, Alvin Hall with Karl Weber
- If your back's not bent, the role of the Citizenship Education Program in the civil rights movement, Dorothy F. Cotton ; foreword by Andrew Young ; introduction by Vincent Harding
- The African American experience during World War II, Neil A. Wynn
- The Birth of a Nation, how a legendary director and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War, Dick Lehr
- Stony the road, Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The sound of freedom, Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America, Raymond Arsenault
- One blood, the death and resurrection of Charles R. Drew, Spencie Love ; with a foreword by John Hope Franklin
- Eyes on the prize, America's civil rights years, 1954-1965, a production of Blackside ; WGBH Boston ; PBS, Disc 3
- Clinging to mammy, the faithful slave in twentieth-century America, Micki McElya
- Against all tides, the untold story of the USS Kitty Hawk race riot, Marv Truhe
- Driving while Black, African American travel and the road to civil rights, Gretchen Sorin
- Sweet land of liberty, the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North, Thomas J. Sugrue
- The second coming of the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition, Linda Gordon
- America on fire, the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s, Elizabeth Hinton
- Jackson, 1964, and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America, Calvin Trillin
- Many minds, one heart, SNCC's dream for a new America, Wesley C. Hogan
- A matter of justice, Eisenhower and the beginning of the civil rights revolution, David A. Nichols
- Savage peace, hope and fear in America, 1919, Ann Hagedorn
- The color of law, a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Half American, the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad, Matthew F. Delmont
- Mothers of massive resistance, white women and the politics of white supremacy, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
- Let the people see, the story of Emmett Till, Elliott J. Gorn
- The shadows of youth, the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation, Andrew B. Lewis
- Red Summer, the summer of 1919 and the awakening of Black America, Cameron McWhirter
- King, a life, Jonathan Eig
- Burial for a King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and the week that transformed Atlanta and rocked the nation, Rebecca Burns
- The movement, the African American struggle for civil rights, Thomas C. Holt
- A more beautiful and terrible history, the uses and misuses of civil rights history, Jeanne Theoharis
- 42 today, Jackie Robinson and his legacy, edited by Michael G. Long ; foreword by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon ; afterword by Kevin Merida
- Overground railroad, the Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America, Candacy Taylor
- Waking from the dream, the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr., David L. Chappell
- Long past slavery, representing race in the Federal Writers' Project, Catherine A. Stewart
- Freedom's teacher, the life of Septima Clark, Katherine Mellen Charron
- Up against the wall, violence in the making and unmaking of the Black Panther Party, by Curtis J. Austin
- The blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson
- Quiet strength, the faith, the hope, and the heart of a woman who changed a nation, Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed
- True, the four seasons of Jackie Robinson, Kostya Kennedy
- The John Carlos story, the sports moment that changed the world, John Carlos with Dave Zirin ; [foreword by Cornel West]
- Troublemaker for justice, the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington, Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long
- By hands now known, Jim Crow's legal executioners, Margaret A. Burnham
- Black radical, the life and times of William Monroe Trotter, Kerri K. Greenidge
- The three mothers, how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs
- The false cause, fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory, Adam H. Domby