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Berry, Mary Frances. Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America. Boston: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995. A radical analysis of the legal underpinnings of segregation from the founding of the United States through the Reagan Administration that provides a deeper structural context to the plight of African Americans.
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor, 2009. A new and impactful retelling of Reconstruction through the end of Jim Crow, Blackmon anchors his argument with many shockingly brutal stories from the lives of African Americans who suffered through this time period.
Emery, Kathy, Ellen Reeves, and Howard Zinn. A People's History of the United States, Abridged Teaching Edition, Updated Edition. New York: New Press, 2006. A simplified and more accessible version of Howar Zinn's classic leftist national history, that allows teachers to convey the important narratives and analysis in the unabridged version to students.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002. The definitive look at Reconstruction. This work is expansive, progressive and deals with the subject of the Civil War from a variety of analytical frameworks that examine the importance of class and race during America's unfinished revolution.
Litwack, Leon F. Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Vintage, 1979. An expansive collection of primary documents that chronicles the new American social and political order that came about after the Civil War.
Walker, David. David Walker's Appeal. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1997. The seminal and archetypal black power tract. Walker's call for violent resistance is a century ahead of its time.
Zinn, Howard. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.). New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. One of the most influential history texts ever written; unapologetically leftist in its orientation, Zinn's masterwork provides a much needed voice in the discussion of Reconstruction and the oppression of African Americans.
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