Black Lives Matter Nonfiction Books

[BeyondGeography]

1. Great list...thank you

I’m most of the way through Trouble in Mind right now. It’s brutal. White Southerners just kept doubling down on the cruelty, and if the “criminal justice” system wasn’t at the heart of it all it was pretty damn close to it. One could do worse to understand the moment we’re in now than to read this book.

Also recommend two other books I read recently: Common Ground, an amazing piece of work by J. Anthony Lukas on the Boston busing crisis, told from the POV of three families, from deep into their respective histories to 1960s and 70s Boston. It deservedly won a Pulitzer. And Barbara Jordan, American Hero, by Mary Beth Rogers, not least for the impact that segregated schools had on her life and how hard she had to work to catch up when she went to Boston University law school.