Developed by the ABHM Staff

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
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
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
Discussed: April 24, 2025
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Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement
Discussed: March 27, 2025
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How The Word Is Passed
Discussed: January 30, 2025
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Enslaved, Indentured, Free
Discussed: December 12, 2024
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Half American
Discussed: November 14, 2024
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Risking Everything
Discussed: October 24, 2024
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Discussed: September 26, 2024
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A Lynching in the Heartland
Discussed: August 22, 2024
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by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi
Discussed: July 25, 2024
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Discussed: June 20, 2024
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Blue Legacies & Black Feminism
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
by Tiya Miles
Discussed: January 25, 2024
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The Beautiful Struggle
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Discussed: October 26, 2023
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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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