Social Justice
Selected Reading List and Resource Guide
prepared by the
Dallas Civil Rights Museum
in Collaboration with
Dallas County Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Coalition
updated: 02.01.2021
Before 1619
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
by Ivan Van Sertima
Enslavement
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
by Daina Ramsey Berry
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Twelve Years a Slave: The Narrative of Solomon Northup
by Solomon Northup
Re-Enslavement
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Enslavement
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
by Daina Ramsey Berry
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Twelve Years a Slave: The Narrative of Solomon Northup
by Solomon Northup