What to Read After Freedom Summer
Readers who loved Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Freedom Summer is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Freedom Summer
Power and powerlessness
Death in a promised land
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
There goes my everything
Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
Black picket fences
The Philadelphia Negro
The Promised Land
Race Rebels
Race, reform and rebellion
Personal politics
My soul is rested
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Seeing Like a State
Bowling Alone
M Train
Evicted
The New Jim Crow
Le Deuxième Sexe
A People's History of the United States
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Fun Home