The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement.
Anti-Racist Resources
Collection of titles for education on being anti-racist. Titles focus on both Black, Indigenous, and POC topics and histories, as well as books on how to be an ally including topics on confronting Racism and White Fragility.
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Author:X, MalcolmSummary: - Author:Summary:
"It's an anthology of writings by black authors from the prairie -- from 19th-century fur traders to avant-garde writers of the 21st."--
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way...
- Author:Walker, AndersSummary:
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent...
- Author:Rothstein, RichardSummary:
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is,...
- Author:MCBRIDE, JamesSummary:
James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in an all-black housing project in Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. His mother was an inspiring figure who saw her dozen children through...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the...
- Author:Ward, JesmynSummary:
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important...
- Author:Baptist, Edward E.Summary:
"Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces...
- Author:Thomas, AngieSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
- Author:Shadd, AdrienneSummary:
When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian but for all African Canadians. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway looks at the history of blacks in the Ancaster-Burlington-...
- Author:Sadlier, RosemarySummary:
Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.
- Author:Judd, Steven Paul, That Native ThomasSummary:
A mysterious pow-wow is to be held inside a colossal tipi which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town, and only full-blooded Native Americans are allowed to attend the grand event.
- Author:Spence, GerrySummary:
This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged as part of a conspiracy with the murder of a white man.
- Author:Alexander, MichelleSummary:
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book...
- Author:Teillet, JeanSummary:
There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada's Indigenous peoples-- the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans. Their story begins in the last decade of the...
- Author:Sexton, Margaret WilkersonSummary:
This historically inspired story of two black women one hundred years apart tells of Josephine and her descendant, a single mother who moves in with her white grandmother, but soon must find escape.
- Author:DuBois, W.E.B.Summary:
A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as...
- Author:Richardson, Jael EaleySummary:
Describes the childhood of Chuck Ealey, who dreamed of becoming a football quarterback despite the prejudices he faced as an African American.
- Author:Richardson, Jael EaleySummary:
A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’s legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father — former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey — for the first time to a small town in...
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