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Across Civil Rights, Discrimination, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, and African American & Black — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.

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Graham Reynolds

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Sojourner Truth

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation — Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

What Would Martin Say? — Clarence B. Jones

What Would Martin Say?

Clarence B. Jones

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1938 Facsimile Edition — Victor H. Green

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1938 Facsimile Edition

Victor H. Green

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Ordinary Notes — Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

No Justice One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart — Robbie Tolan

No Justice One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Just Pursuit A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness — Laura Coates

Just Pursuit A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama — William Warren Rogers

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Seven Sisters and a Brother Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.) — Marilyn Allman Maye

Seven Sisters and a Brother Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.)

Marilyn Allman Maye

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist — Amina Hassan

Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention — Manning Marable

Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community — Marc Schneier

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created — Santi Elijah Holley

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Five Days The Fiery Reckoning of an American City — Wes Moore

Five Days The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Butler A Witness to History — Wil Haygood

The Butler A Witness to History

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Fear No Evil! — Vernon Steve Weakley

Vernon Steve Weakley

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Rebirth of a Nation Reparations and Remaking America — Joel Edward Goza

Rebirth of a Nation Reparations and Remaking America

Joel Edward Goza

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi — Wright Thompson

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The House I Live in Race in the American Century — Robert Jefferson Norrell

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Moment Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now — Bakari Sellers

The Moment Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1949 Facsimile Edition — Victor H. Green

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1949 Facsimile Edition

Victor H. Green

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

A Human Being Died that Night A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

A Human Being Died that Night A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin — spanning Civil Rights, Discrimination, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional and featuring authors such as Graham Reynolds, Sojourner Truth, Anna Malaika Tubbs, Clarence B. Jones, and others.

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