Resources

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

Reparations Pro and Con by J.D. Alfred Brophy, Ph.D.

Transformations in American Legal History co-edited by J.D. Alfred Brophy, Ph.D.

I am a Fugitive from Georgia Chain Gang by Robert Burns

The Silent South by George Washington Cable

Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 by Mary Ellen Curtin

The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 by Pete Daniel

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

Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa Goluboff

Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Adam Green

Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration by James Grossman

A Chance to Make Good: African-Americans, 1900-1929 by James Grossman

Black Workers’ Struggle for Equality in Birmingham by Horace Huntley, David Montgomery, Odessa Woolfolk

Twice the Work of Free Labor by Alex Lichtenstein, Ph.D.

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Muhammad

One Dies, Get Another by Matthew J. Mancini

Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky

Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890 by Peter Rachleff, Ph.D

Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang (reprint of John L. Spivak’s Georgia Nigger, forthcoming from U of South Carolina P in January)

Darker Phases of the South by Frank Tannenbaum

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson