Race in America, Past and Present

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) (e-book available)

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) (e-book available)

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1900) (e-book available)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) (e-book available)

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) (e-book available)

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (2013)

Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014) (e-book available)

Slavery and the Making of America (2005) (documentary)

12 Years a Slave (2013) (film)

Glory (1989) (film)

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963) (e-book available)

Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) (e-book available)

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (1988)

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration  (2010) (e-book available)

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2013)

Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2016) (e-book available)

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1987) (documentary) (digital version available)

I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (documentary)

Malcolm X (1992) (film)

4 Little Girls (1997) (film)

Selma (2014) (film)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015) (e-book available)

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) (e-book available)

Toni Morrison, The Origins of Others (2017) (e-book available)

Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: a a new generation speaks about race  (2016) (e-book available)

Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed (2021) 

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (2015) (e-book available)

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race (2018) (e-book available)

Kiese Laymon, Heavy: an American Memoir (2018) (e-book available)

Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir (2013) (e-book available)

Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter (2021)