After the very informative presentation by Noah Griffin at our recent webinar, he provided the following list of books and reference sources that you might find interesting and enlightening, and will help further the discussion he started in the webinar. The video of that August 25, 2020 webinar can be found on our Past Events page.
- From Slavery to Freedom, John Hope Franklin
- Been in the Storm So Long, Leon Litwack
- Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
- Frederick Douglass, David Blight
- Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson
- Souls of Black Folks, WEB Dubois
- Black Reconstruction, WEB DuBois
- Lift Every Voice – History of the NAACP, Pat Sullivan
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Caste, Isabelle Wilkerson
- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Other suggested readings:
The New York Times “1619 Project”:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
(Note: Multiple links are embedded within this webpage—click images to access.)
“What Is Owed,” from The New York Times Magazine, 6-24-20, by Nikole Hannah-Jones:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html
“The Case for Reparations,” from The Atlantic, by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
The Atlantic collection of articles on race and racism in the U.S.:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/613057/