Civil Rights and the Justice System / Essential Reading

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Anatomy of a Lynching: The Kill of Claude Neal by James R. McGovern

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice in the American South by Gilbert King

Emmett Till: The Murder that Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson

He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice and the Death Penalty  by S. Jonathan Bass

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising by Heather Ann Thompson

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America by Wil Haywood

The Lynching: the Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought down the Klan by Laurence Leamer