Black Resistance -- 2023 Black History Month Theme

The Black Resistance LibGuide provides resources on how African Americans have consistently fought against systemic racism.

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Black Resistance Selected Resources

BLACK RESISTANCE SELECTED RESOURCES

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Recent Resources

Allen, Devin and Jamel Shabazz. No Justice No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. New York: Legacy Lit an Imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2022.

Hill, Marc Lamont, et al. We Still Here: Pandemic Policing Protest & Possibility. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020.

Hinton, Elizabeth Kai. America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022.

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne and Nikole Hannah-Jones. My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives. New York: Harper/HarperCollins, 2022.

Neal, Anthony Sean and Leonard Harris. Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter Spacetime and Dreams Deferred. New York: Bold Type Books, 2021.

Smith, Robert Samuel, et al. Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Williamson, Terrion L. Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest. Cleveland: Belt Publishing 2020.

Featured Black Resistance Leaders Writings

Recommended 

Davis, Angela Y., et al. If They Come in the Morning : Voices of Resistance: Angela Y. Davis, Ruchell Magee, the Soledad Brothers and Other Political Prisoners. New York: Third Press, 1971.

Douglass, Frederick, et al. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself: Authoritative Text Contexts Criticism. Second ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

Du Bois W. E. B., et al. The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text Contexts Criticism.  New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1999.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings: Southern Horrors a Red Record Mob Rule in New Orleans.  New York: Arno Press/New York Times, 1969.

Abrams, Stacey. Our Time Is Now: Power Purpose and the Fight for a Fair America. New York: Picador/Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

Black Resistance Leaders Selected Works

Stacey Abrams 

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change. New York: Picador, 2019.

Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back. New York: Portfolio/ Penguin, 2022.

Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018.

Our Time Is Now : Power Purpose and the Fight for a Fair America. New York: Picador/Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

While Justice Sleeps: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2021.

Angela Davis 

Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Third ed. Chicago: Haymarket Books 2021.

Are Prisons Obsolete?  New York: Seven Stories Press 2003.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. New York: Vintage, 1998.

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. Chicago: Haymarket Books 2016.

Women Race & Class. New York: Random House 1981.

Frederick Douglass

Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave; My Bondage and My Freedom; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1994.

The Frederick Douglass Papers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999-2023.

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings. Chicago:, Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, 1999.

Speeches & Writings. New York: Library of America, 2022.

The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903.

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century. New York: International, 1968.

W.E.B. Du Bois Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles. New York: Library of America, 1986.

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. 19 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Ida B. Wells-Barrnett

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Second ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Ida in Her Own Words: The Timeless Writings of Ida B. Wells from 1893. Chicago: Benjamin Williams Publishing 2008.

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader. Penguin Books 2014.

The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. Boston: Beacon Press 1995.

Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells 1892-1900. Second ed. Bedford/St. Martins 2016.

Leta Hendricks 01/22/2023

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