Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Class Titles

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By Kelly Lytle Hernández

Class

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

By Blair LM Kelley

Class

Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

By Mary Frances Phillips

Class

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

By Julius B. Fleming Jr.

Class

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French

Class

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History (Young Adult Edition)

By Jeff Chang and Dave "Davey D" Cook

Class

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Class

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Vision (Second Edition)

By Barbara Ransby

Class

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

By Jarvis R Givens

Class

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

By Matthew F. Delmont

Class

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

By Robin D. G. Kelley

Class

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

By Faith S. Holsaert (Editor), Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (Editor), Judy Richardson (Editor)

Class

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By Clint Smith

Class

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

By Kidada E. Williams

Class

I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

By Alaina E. Roberts

Class

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

By Charles M. Payne

Class

Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

By Julian Bond and Danny Lyon (Photographer)

Class

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

By Bryan Stevenson

Class

The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World

By Dave Zirin

Class

King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South

By Jeanne Theoharis

Class

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Jeanne Theoharis

Class

A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

By Dave Zirin

Class

"Prisons Make Us Safer" And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

By Victoria Law

Class

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

By Ashley D. Farmer

Class

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis

Class

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition

By Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert

Class

Reconsidering Reparations

By  Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Class

The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

By Robyn C. Spencer

Class

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

By Justene Hill Edwards

Class

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines

Edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris and Daniel Martinez Hosang

Class

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

By Keisha N. Blain

Class

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

By Manisha Sinha

Class

The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Adapted for Young Readers)

By Heather McGhee

Class

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education

By Jesse Hagopian

Class

They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

By Kidada E. Williams

Class

Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

By Garrett Felber

Class

To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

By Tera W. Hunter

Class

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

By Mia Bay

Class

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

By Linda Villarosa

Class

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

By Kate Masur

Class

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers Won the Vote & Insisted on Equality for All

By Martha S. Jones

Class

 

Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle

Edited by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, and Dayo F. Gore

Class

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By Kellie Carter Jackson

Class

Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present

By Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.

Class

A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools

By Michael Hines

Class

The Young Lords: A Radical History

By Johanna Fernandez

Class

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