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An NAACP flyer campaigning for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1922, but was filibustered to defeat in the Senate. Dyer, the NAACP, and freedom fighters around the country, like Flossie Baily, struggled for years to get the Dyer and other anti-lynching bills passed, to no avail. Today there is still no U.S. law specifically against lynching. In 2005, eighty of the 100 U.S. Senators voted for a resolution to apologize to victims' families and the country for their failure to outlaw lynching. Courtesy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Claude, age 23, just months before his 1930 murder. Courtesy of Faith Deeter.
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America’s Black Holocaust Museum’s founder, Dr. James Cameron, was an avid reader and inspiring writer and educator. To this day, he is the only known survivor of a lynching to write and publish a memoir about such an experience. In his honor, we created this book club in November of 2020 to bring together a community of all backgrounds to learn about and discuss our collective past, modern manifestations of racism, and how we create racial repair, reconciliation, and healing for a better future.

A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story

A Time of Terror : A Survivor's Story

by Dr. James Cameron

Discussed: February 22, 2024, February 23, 2023 & February 25, 2021

 

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I've Been Here All The While

by Alaina E. Roberts

Discussed: October 30, 2025

 

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Thirty Years a Slave

by Louis Hughes

Discussed: September 25, 2025

 

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A Fool's Errand

A Fool's Errand

by Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III

Discussed: August 21, 2025

 

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Malcolm Lives!

by Ibram X. Kendi

Discussed: July 24, 2025

 

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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Discussed: June 26, 2025

 

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I Had A Hammer

by Hank Aaron with Lonnie Wheeler

Discussed: May 20, 2025

 

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James

by Percival Everett

Discussed: April 24, 2025

 

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Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement

by Barbara Ransby

Discussed: March 27, 2025

 

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How The Word Is Passed book cover

How The Word Is Passed

by Clint Smith

Discussed: January 30, 2025

 

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Enslaved, Indentured, Free

by Mary Elise Antoine

Discussed: December 12, 2024

 

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Half American

Half American

by Matthew F. Delmont

Discussed: November 14, 2024

 

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Risking Everything coverRisking Everything

by Michael Edmonds

Discussed: October 24, 2024

 

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Caste book cover

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Discussed: September 26, 2024

 

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A Lynching in the Heartland

A Lynching in the Heartland

by James H. Madison

Discussed: August 22, 2024

 

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Stamped book cover

Stamped

by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi

Discussed: July 25, 2024

 

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On Juneteenth cover

On Juneteenth

by Annette Gordon-Reed

Discussed: June 20, 2024

 

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Blue Legacies & Black Feminism

by Angela Y Davis

Discussed: May 23, 2024

 

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Parable Of The Sower

by Octavia E. Butler, graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy & John Jennings

Discussed: April 25, 2024

 

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The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Discussed: March 21, 2024

 

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All That She Carried book cover

All That She Carried

by Tiya Miles

Discussed: January 25, 2024

 

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Book cover of The Beautiful Struggle

The Beautiful Struggle

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Discussed: October 26, 2023

 

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Our Town Cover

Our Town

by Cynthia Carr

Discussed: August 31, 2023

 

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The Rebellious Life Mrs. Rosa Parks

by Jeanne Theoharis

Discussed: July 20, 2023

 

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Afro Futurism: A History of Black Futures

by the National Museum of African American History & Culture

Discussed: June 21, 2023

 

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Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

Discussed: April 20, 2023

 

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The Three Mothers

by Anna Malaika Tubbs

Discussed: January 26, 2023

 

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Death of Innocence

by Mamie Till-Mobley

Discussed: November 17, 2022

 

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Overground Railroad

by Candacy Taylor

Discussed: October 6, 2022

 

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Finding Me

by Viola Davis

Discussed: August 23, 2022

 

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Voices of Milwaukee Bronzeville

by Dr. Sandra Jones

Discussed: June 15, 2022

 

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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday & the Biography of a Song

by David Magolick

Discussed: October 7, 2021

 

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Long Walk To Freedom

by Nelson Mandela

Discussed: June 3, 2021 and July 1, 2021

 

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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness

by Austin Channing Brown

Discussed: November 17, 2020

 

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