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I will add books through out the day. If you know good authors or books you would like to add please feel free to help educate the masses.
If you are looking to learn your history, why not set a little goal for yourself. Just like you have to feed the body right if you want to preserve it, like-wise you have to do the same for your mind. Try reading a book a month on the subject of black history and black social issues.


To Get You Started_____________________

1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History
By
Jeffery C. Stewart
ISBN: 038548576X

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Volumes 1 & 2)
By
John Hope Franklin
ISBN: 0375406719

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by Mamie Till-Mobley
ISBN: 0812970470
(Story of Emmit Till)



Deeper Reading__________________________

Shamanism, Racism, and Hip Hop Culture: Essays on White Supremacy and Black Subversion
By James W. Perkinson
ISBN: 1403967865

Warrior's Don't Cry:Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock
By Melba Pattillo Beals
ISBN: 0671866397

The Man from Scottsboro: Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words
By Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa
ISBN: 078641538X

Like Judgement Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood
By:
Michael D'Orso
ISBN: 0399141472

The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter Godwin Woodson
ISBN: 086543171X

Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
by Naiim Akbar
ISBN: 0935257055

Insperation_____________________________

The Big Picture
by M.D., Ben Carson
ISBN: 031023834X
 

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Thanks for the head ups....
 

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This should be a sticky!

There are way to many folks on this board with NO understanding of their own culture and history.
 

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Thanks for the list. I need a break from the fiction books I have been reading. I have Souls of black folk at my desk. I have been passing over that book for years. I'm gonna get to you Mr Du Bois.
 

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Thank you mods for making this a sticky :bananajump:

More to add to the list:

Biographies and Autobiographies_____________________

Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
by Marcus Garvey

ISBN: 0912469196

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex Haley

ISBN: 0345376714

Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver

ISBN: 038533379X

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama

ISBN: 1400082773

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglas

ISBN: 0300087012

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs

ISBN: 0486419312

Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: The Biography of a Black Cowboy
by Bailey C. Hanes

ISBN: 080612203X

Lady Sings the Blues (The Autobiography of Billie Holiday)
by Billie Holiday, William Duffy

ISBN: 0140067620

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

ISBN: 0553279378

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

ISBN: 0688172377

The Great White Hopes: The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson
by Graeme Kent
ISBN: 0750938927



 

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Please read Dick Gregory's Callous On My Soul...... It's such an awe aspiring book and sheds a lot of light on several assasssinations of our civil rights leaders.

THE GOVERNMENT IS THE DEVIL AND THIS COUNTRY IS CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH.
 

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Great thread and very much needed especially when I see things typed here by our own people who seem lost and their only reaction to racsim is to defend everything non-black, again, kudos for this thread.

These books are for when you are further along in your black history journey, deep material not just surface learning.

The Isis Papers (The Keys to the colors)
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

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Stolen Legacy
George G.M. James
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Great recommendations, y'all. I have Stolen Legacy and Powernomics and have read some of the others.
 

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Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, is one of America’s most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals. Dr. West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award, and has received more than 20 honorary degrees.


West's work has been described as a “polemical weapon that attempts to transform linguistic, social, cultural, and political tradition to increase the scope of individual development and democratic actions.” West’s writing, speaking, and teaching weaves together the American traditions of the Baptist Church, transcendentalism, socialism, and pragmatism.

West’s best-selling book Race Matters (1993), which has sold 400,000 copies, changed the course of America’s dialogue on race, justice, and democracy. His writings, along with his frequent lecturing and preaching, has brought him widespread attention and honors. West’s first book, Prophesy Deliverance! (1982), advocates a socially concerned African American Christianity that draws from Marxism. His American Evasion of Philosophy (1989) engages the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the tradition of American pragmatism, especially the thought of John Dewey. Through the 1990s and into this decade West has continued to produce a steady stream of authored and co-authored books for academics and for a more general audience, including Breaking Bread (with bell hooks, 1991); Race Matters (1993); Jews and Blacks (with Michael Lerner, 1995 ); The Future of the Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1996); and The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2000). His recent work also includes two important books he co-authored on public policy issues: The Future of American Progressivism (with Roberto Unger, 1998) and The War Against Parents (with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 1998).
 

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For the kids.

Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?




For the adults

Sojourner Truth, Slave, Prophet, Legend,

Invisble Man

Uncle Toms Children
 

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I just checked out my book shelf...

Assata: An Autobiography; by Assata Shakur

Malcolm X: The FBI File; by Clayborne Carson/David Gallen

Worlds Great Men of Color Vol. 1; by J.A. Rogers

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitolism; by J.A. Rogers

xes and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands-The Old World; by J.A. Rogers

xes and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas- The New World; by J.A. Rogers

xes and Race: Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition; by J.A. Rogers

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave, by Willie Lynch

Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown
 

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Black Boy by Richard Wright
http://www.amazon.com/Restored-Esta...ef=sr_1_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books


Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
http://www.amazon.com/Spook-Door-Af...ef=sr_1_2/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
http://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Lif...ef=sr_1_3/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books


A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown
http://www.amazon.com/Taste-Power-B...ef=sr_1_8/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Woman-Bl...f=sr_1_25/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs
http://www.amazon.com/Incidents-Sla...ef=sr_1_2/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/Bluest-Eye-To...ef=sr_1_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

Push by Sapphire
http://www.amazon.com/Push-Novel-Vi...ef=sr_1_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8&s=books

Passing by Nella Larsen
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0486437132/ref=lp_g_2/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8

Race Matters by Cornel West
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Matters-...61/ref=pd_sim_b_2/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man...d_sxp_grid_pt_1_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Tim...d_sxp_grid_pt_0_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8

Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Fall-A...d_sxp_grid_pt_0_2/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
http://www.amazon.com/Raisin-Sun-Vi...d_sxp_grid_pt_2_1/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8


Caucasia: A Novel by Danzy Senna
http://www.amazon.com/Caucasia-A-Novel-Danzy-Senna/dp/1573227161

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
http://www.amazon.com/Know-Why-Cage...1/ref=pd_sxp_grid_mlt_1_2/102-9747140-8140915

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingb...d_sxp_grid_pt_2_0/102-9747140-8140915?ie=UTF8


I have read all of these, for school, college, pleasure and they all come highly recommended for insight and speculation
 

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Great Thread!!!!!!!

Journey to Justice - Johnnie Cochran, Jr.

Coming of Age in Mississippi - An autobiography by Anne Moody

How to Trace your African American Roots - Barbara Thompson Howell

WEB Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 - David Levering Lewis

WEB Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 - David Levering Lewis

Along This Way - The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson

Open Wide the Freedom Gates, A Memoir - Dorothy Height

The Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou

Stride Toward Freedom - Martin Luther King, Jr.

America's Black Past - Eric Foner

Nella Larson's biography was a good read.

Quicksand - Nella Larson
 

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You all beautiful! Please keep the suggestions coming, thanks!
 

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good thread...i'm going to type up the list and distribute to my students!
 

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exp'd jailbait said:
good thread...i'm going to type up the list and distribute to my students!

Excellent! :biglaugh:
 

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1.A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield
2.The Souls of Black Folk- WEB Dubois
3.There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America- Alex Kotlowitz
 

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Excellent reads:

Non-Fiction

Up From Slavery/Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folks/W. E. Dubois


Fiction

The Temple of My Familiar/Alice Walker
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (some don't know this was fiction)
 

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Bump by the way some people post my god they really need to learn their real black history and change some of their mind sets.
 

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Those Bones Are Not My Child: A Novel by Toni Cade Bambara
http://www.amazon.com/Those-Bones-A...ef=sr_1_1/002-3965546-0435246?ie=UTF8&s=books

At the time of her death in 1995, acclaimed author, activist and educator Bambara (Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters) had spent 12 years working on what her friend and editor Toni Morrison calls a "magnum opus." Bambara lived in Atlanta during the two years in which more than 40 children, mostly black boys under 15, were abducted and gruesomely murdered. Her luminous novel draws on a wealth of investigative material, historical detail and family stories, and puts to good use her gifts for passionate storytelling and incisive cultural criticism.

The Spencer family, whose oldest son is missing, serves as the fictional anchor. When 12-year-old Sonny fails to come home one night, his anguished mother, Marzala, finds that the police have a pervasive lack of interest in her missing child. Zala and her estranged husband, Vietnam vet Spence, join the Committee to Stop Children's Murders, an activist citizens' group organized by Atlanta parents who are disillusioned with the authorities' indifference to the killings. The cast of characters includes the Spencers' friends, extended family, police, federal investigators, Atlanta officials and the STOP volunteers who search the city seeking leads and patterns, exploring Klan connections and suspicions of a child pδrn ring.

Bambara's thorough re-creation of the STOP committee's work in the book's long middle section comes at the expense of narrative pacing; the story bogs down while the endless theories, tips, hunches and strategies take center stage. Two crucial developmentsAthe arrest of Wayne Williams and a fateful turn for SonnyArefocus the tale on the Spencers. The difficult truths they face are devastating. Bambara gives us an indelible, intimate and moving portrait of an American family, while at the same time producing a landmark work that achieves a potent immediacy as she sagaciously explores the far-reaching issuesAracial, personal, politicalAat stake in one of the 20th century's most horrifying murder cases.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business
 

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Once again, thanks to all of you who continue to contribute to the list.

The Black Book by Middleton A. Harris
This is a haunting book with visuals that will stick with you for a long time.

One Man's Castle by Phyllis Vine
This is the story of the attempted intergration of a White neighborhood in 1920's Detroit.

"...a distinguished black doctor, Ossian Sweet, moves into a white Detroit neighborhood and is surrounded by a rock-throwing mob. Shots ring out, killing a white man; the doctor and 10 of his friends and family are indicted for murder."
 

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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athelete by William C. Rhoden
From the Washington Post Book Review:
"A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave." So declared Curt Flood during an interview with Howard Cosell on Jan. 3, 1970. The Gold Glove centerfielder had appeared on ABC television to discuss his grievances with Major League Baseball. Flood uttered his memorable reply when Cosell questioned his description of baseball players as "indentured servants" and "slaves," pointing out that $90,000 per year wasn't exactly "slave wages."


Decades and many millions of dollars later, notable sports figures have continued to second Flood's bold notion. For example, former pro basketball player Larry Johnson once described his fellow members of the New York Knicks as a group of "rebellious slaves," a term similarly used by basketball star Rasheed Wallace and and football All-Pro Warren Sapp. William Rhoden, in his brilliant Forty Million Dollar Slaves, chronicles the saga of Flood, Johnson and numerous other black male athletes who have toiled on America's athletic plantations. Along the way, he shows how their promise as athletes, leaders and agents of social change has long been restricted by the forces of racism on and off the field.

Like Flood, he disputes the widespread belief that athletes (and black male athletes in particular) with seven-figure contracts and commercial appeal cannot be slaves. While recognizing that today's athletes are immensely wealthy, Rhoden links the absence of black ownership, the institutionalization of rules to regulate black athletic styles, and the common description of black athletes as "hot dogs" or "showboats" as evidence of black athletes' subservience to white interests. He makes clear that the absence of power leaves black athletes in a continuously precarious position, still hampered by a history of being "kept out, persecuted, and eased out when white owners and management decided they weren't needed or wanted."

As evidence of black athletes' continuing vulnerability, Rhoden writes about Michael Jordan, often cited as evidence of black male athletic success and the powerful ways in which sports have facilitated colorblindness in post-civil-rights era America. "Flying too high to notice" that he was on the plantation, Jordan was fired by Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin. Like Curt Flood before him, the superstar was "used for his muscle, then discarded."
 

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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athelete by William C. Rhoden
From the Washington Post Book Review:
"A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave." So declared Curt Flood during an interview with Howard Cosell on Jan. 3, 1970. The Gold Glove centerfielder had appeared on ABC television to discuss his grievances with Major League Baseball. Flood uttered his memorable reply when Cosell questioned his description of baseball players as "indentured servants" and "slaves," pointing out that $90,000 per year wasn't exactly "slave wages."


Decades and many millions of dollars later, notable sports figures have continued to second Flood's bold notion. For example, former pro basketball player Larry Johnson once described his fellow members of the New York Knicks as a group of "rebellious slaves," a term similarly used by basketball star Rasheed Wallace and and football All-Pro Warren Sapp. William Rhoden, in his brilliant Forty Million Dollar Slaves, chronicles the saga of Flood, Johnson and numerous other black male athletes who have toiled on America's athletic plantations. Along the way, he shows how their promise as athletes, leaders and agents of social change has long been restricted by the forces of racism on and off the field.

Like Flood, he disputes the widespread belief that athletes (and black male athletes in particular) with seven-figure contracts and commercial appeal cannot be slaves. While recognizing that today's athletes are immensely wealthy, Rhoden links the absence of black ownership, the institutionalization of rules to regulate black athletic styles, and the common description of black athletes as "hot dogs" or "showboats" as evidence of black athletes' subservience to white interests. He makes clear that the absence of power leaves black athletes in a continuously precarious position, still hampered by a history of being "kept out, persecuted, and eased out when white owners and management decided they weren't needed or wanted."

As evidence of black athletes' continuing vulnerability, Rhoden writes about Michael Jordan, often cited as evidence of black male athletic success and the powerful ways in which sports have facilitated colorblindness in post-civil-rights era America. "Flying too high to notice" that he was on the plantation, Jordan was fired by Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin. Like Curt Flood before him, the superstar was "used for his muscle, then discarded."

I've been wanting to read that.
 

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A great way to learn your black history also, is to talk to the people who went throough it. They are dying fast. Our grandparents and other elders. A lot of poetry written throughought history by black authors will enlighten also.

Also I suggest that you read anything you can by W. E. B. DuBois. (sp?)

:ne_nau: Just some suggestions.
 

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I'll add

ALL THINGS CENSORED- Mumia Abu Jamal..

and LEST WE FORGET is a great informative book with copies of original documents, etc.

In case it hasn't been added
 

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Thanks for this, I'm doing an assignment about Black History Month so this good info.
 

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American Legacy Magazine always has great historical info.

The Senator & the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty - Lawrence Otis Graham
 

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Thanks. I was just trying to find some books to read about the history of black people.
 

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Jubilee by Margaret Walker

The Brothers: An Autobiography by Art, Aaron, Cyril and Charles Neville with David Ritz

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams
 

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"The Miseducation of the Negro" by Carter G. Woodson
"Native Son" by Richard Wright
 

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