22 Must Read Books During & After (W)rec(K)onciliation

My friends often ask me what books they should read to expand their world-views on Race in America. Here are many of the books I've read, with a few I'm currently reading that I've shared with them. This list is growing. However, it's a great place to start and has something for every type of knowledge seeker — for example, the person who needs statistical evidence to support unfamiliar ideologies and the person who likes a good personal story that results in an emotional response. All are helpful books or content to read during and after (W)rec(K)onciliation.​

• The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King (Edited by Clayborne Carson)
• Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King
• My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. by Coretta Scott King
• Coretta: “My life, my love, my legacy” by Coretta Scott King 
• I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters by Bayard Rustin
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
• On the Road to Freedom by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
• “The Sixties Papers” by Stewart and Judith Albert
• Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement by Henry Hampton, Fayer and Flynn
• The Negro Church by W.E.B Du Bois
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
• Black Like Me by Howard Griffin
• The History of the Negro Church by Carter G. Woodson
• No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
• I’d also read up on Desmond Tutu and what he calls, “ubuntu”. I love his thoughts and beliefs in regards to racial reconciliation and life
• **Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way by Richard Twiss
• **At Home in Exile by Russell Jeung
• The Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves by Angela Davis
• Bible Gateway's: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: A Devotional To Help You Discuss Race, Racism, and the Bible
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told by Alex Haley

​**currently reading