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
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
Power and Powerlessness
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Death in a Promised Land
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
There Goes My Everything
Race Rebels
The Philadelphia Negro
The Promised Land
My Soul Is Rested
Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
Personal Politics
Black Picket Fences
Race, Reform and Rebellion
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Seeing Like a State
Bowling Alone
M Train
Evicted
Between
The New Jim Crow
The Second Sex
A People's History of the United States
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe