Books about Social Justice

269 books

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time by Desmond Tutu

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy

Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

Qian Julie Wang

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Walden and "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappé

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Patrisse Khan-Cullors