Week 4: 24 Must Read Books During & After (W)rec(K)onciliation
My friends often ask me what books they should read to expand their worldviews on Race in America. Here are many of the books I've read, along with a few I'm currently reading and have shared with them. This list is growing. However, it's a great place to start and has something for every type of knowledge seeker — for example, the person who needs statistical evidence to support unfamiliar ideologies and the person who likes a good personal story that results in an emotional response. All are helpful books or content to read during and after (W)rec(K)onciliation.
The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King (Edited by Clayborne Carson)
Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. by Coretta Scott King
Coretta: “My life, my love, my legacy” by Coretta Scott King
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters by Bayard Rustin
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
On the Road to Freedom by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
“The Sixties Papers” by Stewart and Judith Albert
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement by Henry Hampton, Fayer and Flynn
The Negro Church by W.E.B Du Bois
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Black Like Me by Howard Griffin
The History of the Negro Church by Carter G. Woodson
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
I’d also read up on Desmond Tutu and what he calls “ubuntu”. I love his thoughts and beliefs regarding racial reconciliation and life
**Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way by Richard Twiss
**At Home in Exile by Russell Jeung
The Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves by Angela Davis
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told by Alex Haley
** Currently reading **