How much do you know about the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Lives Matter? Our video, African American Social Movements, covers these four movements and includes suggested reading if you’d like to dig deeper into these topics.
Civil Rights Movement
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- March: Book One by John Lewis
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Black Power Movement
- The Black Panthers: Portraits From An Unfinished Revolution edited by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams
- The Huey P. Newton Reader edited by David Hilliard and Don Weise
- This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party by David Hilliard
Black Arts Movement
- Quilting The Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni
- So Far, So Good by Gil Scott-Heron
- Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez
Black Lives Matter
- Towards the “Other America” – Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
