NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #89 of #GMGReads. Every night through this (increasingly) weird (and sad) time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
As we close out two momentous weeks of change and unrest in the US, I thought I'd offer some favorite books on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, from @magersandquinn in Minneapolis and @MahoganyBooks in DC:
1) Paul Hendrickson's SONS OF MISSISSIPPI is a fascinating, literary portrait of what racism and segregationists looked like up close: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
2) Taylor Branch's (@taylorbranch) magisterial three-volume history of America in the King years is amazing and—although I haven't finished all three volumes—it reads much faster than you might worry. Start with PARTING THE WATERS: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
PS: Peniel Joseph (@PenielJoseph) has a brand new-ish, revisionist dual biography about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. that seems worth reading, THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
3) Diane McWhorter won the Pulitzer in 2002 for her portrait of Birmingham amid the Civil Rights Movement, CARRY ME HOME: mahoganybooks.com/9780743217729
4) James Baldwin's contemporaneous THE FIRE NEXT TIME helped bring national attention to the Civil Rights Movement at the time: mahoganybooks.com/search.php?sea…
PS: If you want a slightly different approach to a first-person account, @repjohnlewis wrote a multi-volume graphic novel, THE MARCH: mahoganybooks.com/9781603093002
5) Nick Kotz, who died away a couple weeks ago, profiled one of the climatic moments for civil rights, in his book on MLK and LBJ, JUDGMENT DAYS: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are some of your favorite books on the Civil Rights Movement? What are you reading this weekend? Have you purchased any of the multitude of anti-racist books atop the new bestseller lists? Share! #avidreadersunite
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