Top 5 Books on Black History Everyone Should Read! 

Something else I recommend is "The Velvet Rope Economy" (circa 2020) by Nelson Schwartz. When I got done with this book, I understood why, everyone is taught to discriminate or be racist.

Dr Jason Freeman thank you 🙏🏾. I highly recommend these great black books . Written by black authors 👇🏾 1. Black economics - Dr jawanza kunjufu 2. Black love is a revolutionary act - Umoja 3. Malcom X autobiography - Alex Haley 4. Breaking the curse of willie lynch - alivin morrow 5. The new Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander One love ❤

My new idea was book showing black history to present, Kobe, Jordan, wilt, Tuskegee airmen, john lewis, Jackie Robinson etc

Slavery By Another Name and Medical Apartheid are both great books. Assata by Assata Shakur was very informative regarding the justice system in the 70s, and it was hilarious as well. Great video.

I have like a million books I want to read, but don't have the time or money to get my hands on. Thank you for the list, I will make sure to check them out sometime. Keep up the great videos :)

Enticing recommendations! Some I hadn't heard of before and I'm always happy to expand my TBR. 😁 My suggestion for a recommendation would be The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. I loved the scope and spectrum of this anthology, both in terms of writers, literary forms and subjects. It was a very rich experience for me.

Black Like Me had a great impact on me as a young white women in high school in the north.

A wonderful recommendation: The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is a must read.

As a retired Navy man, I enjoy military history. One of my favorite books I read this year was 'All Blood Runs Red.' It is the fascinating story of Eugene Bullard, the first black American pilot who fought for France in the first World War. He went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. An excellent and informative read.

Hello~ I was in high school in the 70’s. We were assigned to read “Black Like Me” and to write a paper. About a white man blacking his face & skin to learn just how black men were treated. The other book is “Hellhound on His Trail,” by Hampton Sides whose father was an attorney for Dr. King.

so good! I can't believe you dont have a bigger audience

❤thank you for this list of reads

Thank you !

When I think of black history I think of books like , "Before The Mayflower", by Lerone Bennet, "Black History" , Albert Brimmer, , "The Miseducation of the Negro", by Carter G Woodson and a more modern book, "Four Hundred Souls", which is a compilation of authors that was edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha BN. Blain.

Thanks for this video! I'd also recommend five books I've read recently: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee; Half American, by Matthew Delmont; Teaching White Supremacy, by Donald Yacovone; and By Hands Now Known, by Margaret Burnham.

Been meaning to read The New Jim Crow for a while now. Definitely will now

“They Were Her Property”, “The Color of Law”, “The Man-Not”.

Thank you, I have 3 out of the 5 books recommended. I also suggest , How Europe underdeveloped Aftica by walter rodney; the destruction of black civilization by chancellor williams; Pre-colonial black africa by Cheikh Anta Diop; Medical Aparteid by Harriet A Washington; Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Rogers; the African origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality; the interesting narrative of the life of Olauda Equiana:or Gustavus Vassa the african written by himself;

The books by J.A. Rogers are interesting reads. The African history before the slave trade and the USA.

Great list! Here’s one that is an eye opening reminder of who still has the real benefits card! 😉 “Policing the Black Man” by Angela J Davis & Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr by Ben Green I hope you use one and if not maybe you can do a review on them yourself either way… I hope this helps 🙏🏽

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Honorable Mention: Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 5. Eyes On The Prize Juan Williams 4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3. Levittown David Kushner 2.The New Jim Crow Laws Michelle Alexander 1. Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas An American Slave Benjamin Quarles

Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois should be added.

The black renaissance authors. The coolest Winter ever by sister soldier.

Thank You Dr. Freeman for making this contribution. Your number one book, 'Narrative of Fredrick Douglass' has definitely been added to my shortlist. But as a 70 yr old man, who grew up in one of the whitest suburbs in the Midwest North of Chicago, I truly only began my black history journey in the last two years. One of the books that turned me around was written by a white historian. I am in the process of reading her book for the 3rd time, I had to unlearn what I thought I knew. You really can’t claim to understand the United States until you understand the history of class struggle in America 🇺🇸 “White Trash: 400 Yr Untold History of Class in America” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s_Gq2qDwFpA.html (Start interview at 4:16) And realize, that we were always considered to be at the bottom, underneath poor whites. Everything made sense after reading that book... And especially today's current events.

So many great books!

Book recommendations for your class is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson or Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

I am currently reading The Defender by Ethan Michaeli. Excellent.

Seems your channel has changed directions, but I would still recommend Clotel, or the President's Daughter by William Wells Brown. Great fictional narrative based on a lot of historically documented events.

You did not mention the word technology. The technology of the cotton gin affected all of US by changing the economics of cotton. I started reading Science Fiction in 4th grade. It changed my perspective of reality even though my mother called it "something crazy". Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds When Africa Awakes (1922) by Hubert Harrison Both free in the public domain. The computers are everywhere. There is No Escape! Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez

Great video. 👍Making sure to check some these out.

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain. It's a collection of short essays (3-4 pages each) and poems from contemporary writers covering a host of historical topics.

“The immortal life of life of Henrietta Lacks” “Sounds like London”. “A history of West Indies cricket”. “Serena..Queen of the court” “Unforgivable Blackness”… I’m British and have read them all.

Everything on this list is anchored around slavery. Any books on the history of Black greatness BEFORE slavery?

They did a movie on this.did they move to Los Angeles

Okay Mr doctor if you know about black history was Abraham Lincoln black I'm just wondering

Dr Freeman: How about adjusting your camera so we don['t have to look up your nose? What's the problem? Do you like to "look down on people"?

'Their Eyes were Watching God' seems similar to Kindred by Octavia E Butler in the immersive descriptions of slavery from a women's perspective. Gut-wrenching.

I stopped watching this when he started applying lotion.