Recommended Reading Lists
Looking to dive more into researching a specific topic? Check out some of our curated reading lists complete with convenient Amazon links that include recommendations from Museum Staff and Historians.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS:
City Green, by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Child of the Civil Rights Movement, by Paula Young Shelton & Raul Colón
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins, by Carole Boston Weatherford & Jerome Lagarrigue
BOOKS:
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970, by Lynne Olson
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, by M.K. Asante Jr.
Selected Poems of Langston Hughs: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse, by Langston Hughs
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Dr Maya Angelou
Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin, by Bayard Rustin
James Baldwin: Collected Essays, by James Baldwin
Americanah: A Novel, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All be Feminists: A guided Journal, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Civil Rights Memorials & The Geography of Memory, by Owen Dwyer & Derek Alderman
Lessons from Little Rock , by Terrance Roberts
AUDIOBOOKS:
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America, by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
SNCC: The New Abolitionists, by Howard Zinn
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by Bell Hooks
Passing, by Nella Larsen
FICTION:
The Other Black Girl: A Novel, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
When No One is Watching: A Thriller, by Alyssa Cole