Friday, July 15, 2022

20 History Books That Every Black Person Should Read by Avant-garde Books (2022)

 

1.   African American Inventions That Changed the World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations (2017) by Michael Carson

2. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (1962) by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  3. Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (1986) by William Loren Katz

 4. Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4, 000 B.C. to 2,000 A.D. (1971) by Chancellor Williams

 5. From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of Ancient Black Races, Including the Black Hebrews (1969) by Rudolph R. Windsor

 6. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016) by Margot Lee Shetterly

7. Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali (2013) by P. James Oliver

8. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006) by Harriet A. Washington

9. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) by Frederick Douglass

  10. *Roots: The Saga of An American Family (1976) by Alex Haley

 11. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008) by Douglas A. Blackmon

12.            Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy (1954) by George G. M. James

 13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley) (1965) by Malcolm X

  14. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2002) by Spencer Wells

  15. The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) by Carter G. Woodson

   16. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) by Isabel Wilkerson

 17. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (1976) by Ivan Van Sertima

  18.  Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies (2001) by DK

      19. To Kill a Black Man (1968) by Louis Lomax

   20.  Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (1901) by Booker T. Washington

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