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Book List

 

Each of the titles will enrich you. They will force you to confront your true nature and inspire you to fulfill dreams that you never thought to dream. Go and purchase one of these titles and allow yourself to be influenced and challenged by the power vested in reading.

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David Walker’s Appeal To The Coloured Citizens Of The World 

David Walker And Peter P. Hinks

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Little Black Sambo

Helen Bannerman

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The Trumpet Of Conscience

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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Winning the Race: Beyond The Crisis In Black America

John McWhorter

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Nigger An Autobiography

Dick Gregory wWith Robert Lipsyte

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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story 

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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Soul On Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

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For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States

Allan Millett and Peter Maslowski

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The Art Of War

Sun, Tzu

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Love Leadership: The New Way To Lead In A Fear-Based World

John Hope Bryant

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Presidential War Power

Louis Fisher

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History Of Class In America

Nancy Isenberg

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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution

David O. Stewart

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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership In The Age Of Jim Crow (Library Of African American Biography)

Raymond W. Smock

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Hubert Harrison: The Voice Of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Vol. 1)

Jeffrey B. Perry

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Donna Brazile

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Cheikh Anta Diop And the New Light on African History

John Henrik Clarke

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Read, read, and read some more. 

 

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

 

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade

W.E.B. DuBois

 

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward Baptist

 

Black Rednecks, White Liberals

Thomas Sowell

 

Stride Towards Freedom:

The Montgomery Story

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos to Community

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 

Why We Can't Wait

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 

My Bondage, My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

 

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics

Thomas Sowell

 

Select Writings and Speeches 

of Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

 

Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow

Raymond W. Smock

 

The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

James D. Anderson

 

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

 John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger

 

Flight: A Novel (Voices of the South)

Walter F. White

 

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project

Robert P. Moses

 

Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady

Nevergold Barbara A. Seals and Peggy Brooks-Bertram

 

Jump Ship to Freedom

James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

 

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The objective behind each title is for the reader to gain new insight. Explore the literary works. Challenge and affirm your beliefs in these titles. Form a book club. Discuss and debate each work and with family members and friends. Remember, the more you invest in reading the greater quality of life and mental fortitude.

Happy Reading!

 

March Book One

by John Lewis

 

March Book Two

by John Lewis

 

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class

by John Hope Bryant

 

Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

 

Leading For Social Justice: Transforming Schools for All Learners

by Elise M. Frattura

 

The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad

by Karl Evanzz

 

The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life

by Hill Harper and Kevin Powell

 

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Mary Ann Glendon

 

Black Prophetic Fire

by Cornel West

 

Mules and Men (P.S.)

by Zora Neale Hurston

 

Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s Final Year

by Tavis Smiley

 

Me & Mom & Me

by Maya Angelou

 

Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine by Daniel Halper

 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

 

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson

 

Detroit: An American Autopsy

by Charlie LeDuff

 

Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood by Cecelie Berry

 

Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X

by Ilyasah Shabazz

 

Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students

Theresa Perry and Claude Steele

 

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