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8394, RE: okayactivist reading list
Posted by Nettrice, Wed Oct-11-00 12:32 PM
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaever
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Roots by Alex Haley
Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Civilization of Barbarism by Cheikh Anta Diop
The Soul of Black Folks by WEB Du Bois
Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Soledad Brother by George Jackson
Black Robes, White Justice by Bruce Wright
Almost any book by Toni Morrison and James Baldwin:
Song of Solomon/Beloved
Blues for Mister Charlie/Another Country
Dutchman and the Slave by Leroi Jones
The Negro and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes (essay)
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill
Poems and essays by bell hooks, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez

I can probably think of a few more but somebody else is sure to add.

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