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Justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson recounts his battle against wrongful convictions, life‑sentence juvenile cases, and systemic bias while seeking reform of America’s criminal justice system.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a contemporary system of racial control, striking disproportionately at African‑American men and other disadvantaged groups while perpetuating a new form of Jim Crow.

Richard Rothstein’s *The Color of Law* uncovers how federal, state, and local policies deliberately created and maintained racial segregation in U.S. cities.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a non‑fiction study of the Great Migration, tracing the journey of nearly six million African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.

Angela Y. Davis links the history of state violence and oppression to present struggles, urging solidarity and action for human liberty worldwide.

Ira Berlin traces the evolution of African‑American life from the first enslaved arrivals in the early 1600s through the American Revolution, revealing how slavery, labor, and race were continually redefined in the shaping of the United States.

From Slavery to Freedom chronicles the rise of slavery, the blending of European and African cultures in the New World, and the development of a distinct Black culture and resistance in the United States.

Glen Duncan’s Talulla Rising blends paranormal elements with a literary style, centering on werewolf lore within a narrative reflecting romance and contemporary themes. The novel explores human relationships under supernatural conditions, set against a backdrop of European cultural nuance.

This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South--and the brutality used to enforce it. It is the story of how the nation's press, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century. Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--first black reporters, then liberal southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.--From publisher description.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom recounts the daring escape of the married couple William and Ellen Craft from slavery in Georgia, using a startling disguise to cross the North.

A free black boy‑daughter in early 19th‑century Charleston recalls Bible stories taught by her father, weaving them into the lived reality of African Americans.

The Awakening of Ivy Leavold is a historical romance novel by Sierra Simone that explores love and personal growth against a period backdrop.