#Civil Rights

3 books tagged with civil rights, sorted by rating.

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

5/5

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

5/5

Law & Legal History

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

5/5

History

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

5/5

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was Walter McMillian, a young man condemned to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit.

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography History

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

5/5

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."

Law & Legal History

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

5/5

Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the Great Migration — the decades-long exodus of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to northern and western cities. Through three extraordinary personal stories, she reveals one of the most transformative events in American history.

History