Recommended Reading from the Whitman Public Library
The WFT extends a special thank you to Mr. David Aronson, Director, for making this list available!
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
Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom by Ranita Ray
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)
