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Built from the Fire :The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street : One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to be Erased by Victor Luckerson, 2023.
Making Black History: the color line, culture, and race in the age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, 2018.
The Bible Told Them So: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins, 2021.
The Blood Red Record: a review of the horrible lynchings and burning of Negroes by civilized white men in the United States, as taken from the records by John Edward Bruce, 1901.
Jim Crow's Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation by
Being Somebody and Black Besides : An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt, 2021.
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: the struggle over segregated recreation in America by Victoria W. Wolcott, 2012.
The Color of Law: Forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein, 2017.
Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism by
Benching Jim Crow: the rise and fall of the color line in southern college sports, 1890-1980 by Charles H. Martin, 2010.
Defending White Democracy: the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965 by Jason Morgan Ward, 2011.
Making Our Way Out of No Way, PBS Documentary, 2013. 1hr.