2025 Black History Month Reading List

Many of the most iconic, pivotal, and stirring moments of the Civil Rights Movement took place in Alabama. The titles on our Black History Month reading list below reveal many crucial steps on the path to justice and equality. To order any book on the list, use promo code BHM2025 for a 30% discount and free shipping.

Physicians for the People

Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

Radical Advocate

Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice

A Carpetbagger in Reverse

Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman

Race and Gender at War

Writing American Military History

From Mammies to Militants

Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

Dear Denise

Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

Keep Your Airspeed Up

The Story of a Tuskegee Airman

Darkroom

A Memoir in Black and White

Constance Baker Motley

One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law

Desert Rose

The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King

Doc

The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down

Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987

The Road South

Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders

If It Takes All Summer

Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964

What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

The House by the Side of the Road

The Selma Civil Rights Movement

Opening the Doors

The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

Hearing the Hurt

Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement

The Freedom Quilting Bee

Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement

A-Train

Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

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Under the Sun

A Black Journalist's Journey

Playing for Power

Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia

Fiction

Tannery Bay

A Novel

Infinite Constellations

An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions

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