“Read, read, read until you discover knowledge of the universe.” – Marcus Garvey

- Coldest Winter Ever – Sister Souljah
- Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X and Alex Haley*
- Autobiography of Martin Luther King – Martin Luther King
- Eyes on the Prize – Juan Williams*
- On The Side of My People: The Religious Life of Malcolm X – Louis A. Decaro*
- Between The World and Me – Tah-Nehisi Coates*
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – Harriett Ann Jacobs*
- Coming of Age in Mississippi – Anne Moody*
- Race Inequality in America – John Hope Franklin*
- In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now – Benjamin Hedin
- Malcolm X Speaks – Malcolm X
- Narrative of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass*
- Ready for Revolution: The Autobiography of Stokely Carmichael – Stokely Carmichael
- Stokely Speaks – Stokely Carmichael*
- Black Power – Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton
- Mis-Education of the Negro – Carter G. Woodson*
- The Black Revolution on Campus – Martha Biondi
- Malcolm X: The FBI File – Clayborne Carson*
- Americana – Chimamanda Adichie
- There Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- Are Prisons Obsolete – Angela Davis*
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis
- Assassination of Malcolm X – Michael Friedly
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America – Michael Eric Dyson
- The Black Panthers Speak – Philip S. Foner*
- Death of Innocence – Mamie Till-Mobley*
- Malcolm X: The Last Speeches – Malcolm X
- Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard – Malcolm X*
- Race, Women, and Class – Angela Davis
- To Die For The People – Huey P. Newton*
- Revolutionary Suicide – Huey P. Newton*
- In Search of Common Ground: Conversations with Erik H. Erikson and Huey P. Newton – Erik H. Erikson and Huey P. Newton*
- Blood in My Eye – George Jackson
- The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and The Black Panther Party in Oakland – Robyn C. Spencer*
- Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination*
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How The FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther – Jeffrey Haas*
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable
- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of The Black Panther Party – Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.
- Soledad Brother – George Jackson*
- Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story – Elaine Brown
- Assata: The Autobiography – Assata Shakur*
- The Blood of Emmett Till – Timothy B. Tyson*
- The Diary of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
- Barracoon: The Story of The Last Black Cargo – Zora Neale Hurston
- 12 Years A Slave – Soloman Northup*
- Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and The Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South – Stephanie M.H. Camp*