MUST READS ON BLACK HISTORY
Before The Mayflower A History of the Negro In America by Lerone Bennett Jr. – A GREAT OVERVIEW OF AFRICAN AND BLACK HISTORY. The history is not taught in the schools!!!
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/before-the-mayflower
Parting the Waters: America During the King Years – Taylor Branch – Dorothy ADORED this book!
https://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/parting-the-waters/
Ida: A Sword Among Lions Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching biography by Paula Giddings – Great insight into America post-slavery and Jim Crow.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson – Shonda Rhimes is adapting into film form for Netflix.
America’s greatest domestic movement began around 1917 and ended in 1975, an epoch during which millions of black American citizens fled Southern towns and cities, with their elaborate and complicated tapestries of Jim Crow laws, for the relative freedoms of the north.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129855900
SLAVERY BEYOND THAT ONE PARAGRAPH
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the “floating dungeons” at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers’ Project. One of the group’s most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection, consisting of more than 2,000 transcripts of interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple words, provided often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage.
MUST READ ARTICLES
Project 1619 – Pulitzer Prize Winning Research Project – New York Times
https://nikolehannahjones.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Case For Reparations – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Ways To Act Now
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DU8WZpYZLTtX8Jva6JW1MvVLqBbDNvV0/view
Anti –Racism Resources Document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0cJZh3Wb33q0qAHphYypwuUppLOr_DOTdt9CHTxRWCVxRLUD5bjb91p34