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Best Sellers in Race and Civil Rights Books
1BORN A CRIME
By Trevor Noah
A memoir about growing up in South Africa by the comedian, now the host of “The Daily Show,” whose birth was the result of an illegal (under apartheid) relationship between a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother.
Read more about this book...2HIDDEN FIGURES
By Margot Lee Shetterly
The story, based in part on interviews, of the black women mathematicians who were hired as “computers” by the precursor of NASA during World War II. The basis of the forthcoming movie.
Read more about this book...3BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of The Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son. Winner of the National Book Award.
Read more about this book...4THE NEW JIM CROW
By Michelle Alexander
A law professor takes aim at the “war on drugs” and its impact on black men.
Read more about this book...5JUST MERCY
By Bryan Stevenson
A law professor and MacArthur grant recipient's memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.
Read more about this book...6MARCH TRILOGY
By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
All three volumes of Representative John Lewis's memoir of the civil rights movement are collected here.
Read more about this book...7MARCH: BOOK ONE
By John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Representative John Lewis of Georgia describes his childhood and the beginning of his involvement in the civil rights movement. The first volume of a trilogy.
Read more about this book...8MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL
By Issa Rae
Humorous essays on what it is like to be awkward in a world that glorifies cool.
Read more about this book...9YOU CAN'T TOUCH MY HAIR
By Phoebe Robinson
Essays by a stand-up comic on topics like race, gender, dating and feminism.
Read more about this book...10STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING
By Ibram X Kendi
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
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