The Woman They Could Not Silence
Kate Moore
Published 2021
560 pages
The most popular civil rights books of 2021
Books about civil rights tell how excluded people won equality under the law. Marches, boycotts, court cases and the leaders and foot soldiers behind them are remembered in histories, memoirs and novels. The stories are inspiring, and the struggle they describe is not over. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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Unbound
Tarana Burke
Published 2021
272 pages
Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs
Published 2021
272 pages
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
Published 2021
272 pages
What White People Can Do Next
Emma Dabiri
Published 2021
144 pages
Every Day Is a Gift
Tammy Duckworth
Published 2021
400 pages
Freedom
Sebastian Junger
Published 2021
160 pages
On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
Published 2021
288 pages
We Are Bellingcat An Intelligence Agency for the People
Eliot Higgins
Published 2021
272 pages
San Fransicko
Michael Shellenberger
Published 2021
416 pages
Against White Feminism
Rafia Zakaria
Published 2021
195 pages
Everybody
Olivia Laing
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
Michael Knowles
2021 · 2022 edition
362 pages
This Is the Fire
Don Lemon
2021 · 2022 edition
224 pages
The Devil You Know A Black Power Manifesto
Charles Blow
Published 2021
256 pages
Belly of the Beast
Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Kiese Laymon
Published 2021
144 pages
The Black Panther Party
David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson
Published 2021
192 pages
The Constitution of Knowledge
Jonathan Rauch
Published 2021
318 pages
To Rescue the Republic
Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
Published 2021
400 pages
The Second Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Carol Anderson
2021 · 2023 edition
304 pages
Let the Record Show
Sarah Schulman
2021 · 2022 edition
752 pages
Saving Justice Truth, Transparency, and Trust
James Comey
Published 2021
240 pages
The Black Church
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Published 2021
304 pages
Chasing Me to My Grave An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson
Published 2021
304 pages