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Read diversely: a book list for Martin Luther King Jr. Day & Black History Month

1/17/2021

See the entire Black History Month reading list here.

Books and recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Testament of Hope: the essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Yesars 1954-63

Reading Black History:

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song; edited by Kevin Young

Blues people: Negro music in white America by Amiri Baraka

Contemporary Voices:

Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019; edited by Ibram X. Kendi

Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement; by Angela Y. Davis

Just us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine

Wandering in strange lands: a daughter of the great migration reclaims her roots by Morgan Jerkins

Books on Antiracism:

How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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