recommended readings
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
By Michelle Alexander
Ida: A Sword Among Lions (2008)
By Paula J. Giddings
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century (2007)
By Sherrilyn Ifill
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016)
By Ibram X. Kendi
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011)
By Cameron McWhirter
Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South (2013)
Edited by Michael J. Pfeiffer
But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (2007)
By George Rable
The Blood of Emmett Till (2017)
By Timothy B. Tyson
Lynching in America: A History in Documents (2006)
Edited by Christopher Waldrep
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
By Isabel Wilkerson
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I (2012)
By Kidada E. Williams
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (2009)
By Amy Louise Wood