For Kids:
Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higganbotham
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
For Teens:
The March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys : lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment by Larry Dane Brimmer
Race against time : the untold story of Scipio Jones and the battle to save twelve innocent men by Sandra Neil Wallace & Rich Wallace
Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott by Russell Freedman
Give us the vote! : over 200 years of fighting for the ballot by Susan Goldman Rubin
For Everyone:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Anything by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Maine’s Visible Black History : the first chronicle of its people by H.H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot
Midden by Julia Bouwsma
Bonus!
For horror fans:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Kindred by Octavia Butler
