From the Library…

Titles for Adults:

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid

The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healey

This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism by Don Lennon

Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created by Nick Tabor

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The World Record of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin

Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America in 36 Pieces by Will Ashton

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (poetry)

“In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hip-Hop is History by Questlove

Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement

by Deborah D. Douglas

Titles for Kids and Teens:

Ruth & the Green Book (Ramsey) picture book

Meet Claudie: American Girl (Bennett) juvenile fiction

The Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles) picture book biography

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (Shetterly) picture book nonfiction

Good Kind of Trouble (Ramee) juvenile fiction

Ana & Andrew Planting Peanuts (Platt) early reader

Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld (YA)