Books like A Shot in the Moonlight How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

#1

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

Themes: Legal History • Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#2

South to America A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#3

The Devil’s Half Acre The Untold Story of how One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Kristen Green (Journalist)

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#4

Let the People See The Story of Emmett Till

Elliott J. Gorn

Themes: Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • True Crime

#5

Joe, the Slave who Became an Alamo Legend

Ron Jackson

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#6

University, Court, and Slave Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

Alfred L. Brophy

Themes: Slavery • Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#7

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#8

Lay this Body Down The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves

Gregory A. Freeman

Themes: Slavery • Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#9

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

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#10

Charleston's Trial Jim Crow Justice

Daniel J. Crooks (Jr.)

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • True Crime

#11

Black Boys Burning The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School

Grif Stockley

Themes: Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • True Crime

#12

Africatown America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

Nick Tabor

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#13

The Barn The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism

Wright Thompson

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • True Crime

#14

The Silencing of Ruby Mccollum Race, Class, and Gender in the South

Tammy D. Evans

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • True Crime

#15

The Color of Abolition How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

Linda Hirshman

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • True Crime

#16

Alabama V. King Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement

Dan Abrams

Themes: Legal History • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

12 Years a Slave A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation

Solomon Northup

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#18

The Survivors of the Clotilda The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#19

The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#20

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Slavery • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#21

The Nature of Resistance in South Carolina’s Works Progress Administration Ex-Slave Narratives

Gerald J. Pierson

Themes: Slavery • Discrimination • South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

#22

Church Street The Sugar Hill of Jackson, Mississippi

Grace Britton Sweet

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#23

The Charleston Freedman’s Cottage An Architectural Tradition

Lissa Felzer

Themes: South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#24

The Last Negroes at Harvard The Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men who Changed Harvard Forever

Kent Garrett

Themes: Discrimination • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional