NYT - Race and Civil Rights | Henry Carter Hull

1) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Noah, Trevor

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#1 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.

2) Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

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Lee Shetterly, Margot

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#2 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...

3) Between the world and me

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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#3 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...

4) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption

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Stevenson, Bryan

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#5 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.

5) March: Book One

Author

Lewis, John

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#7 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

6) Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America

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Kendi, Ibram X

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#10 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course...