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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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