Black & African American History

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America

By Kristian Williams, Joy James (Brown University)

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

By Glenn T. Eskew

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

The Algiers Motel Incident

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By Leon F. Litwack

Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

By Nickolas Patterson

A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970

By Greta de Jong

We Shall not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-in and the Movement It Inspired

By M.J. O'Brien

The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925

By Wilson Jeremiah Moses (Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Civilization, Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Civilization, Brown University)

The African-American Odyssey: Volume II, Since 1863

By Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley C. Harrold

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

By Stephanie M. H. Camp

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

The Myth of Black Progress

By Alphonso Pinkney

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

The History of Jazz

By Ted Gioia