Books like 'Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases'
Readers who enjoyed Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio de la Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Héctor Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor LaValle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, David Cole, Viet Thanh Nguyen & Jacqueline Woodson also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم
24 ratingsخلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين . -
![Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt]()
Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt
6 ratingsRumor has it, the war is about to end. But that doesn’t stop Billy Denton from running away to enlist. He’s lived a privileged life on the Wellesley estate, where slavery is seen as a necessary means to operate their textile production. Believing no human should be enslaved by another, he’s willing to fight—and even die—to change the future of the woman who holds his heart... -
![حديث الجنود by أيمن العتوم]()
حديث الجنود by أيمن العتوم
16 ratingsمفتاح الثورة كلمة، وتصنع الثورة كلمة: (العدو من أماكم والبحر من ورائكم)، وأول الرسالة كلمة:(اقرأ)، وأول الرحمة كلمة: (كوني برداً وسلاما)، واعظم العذاب كلمة: (اخسؤوا فيها ولا تكلمون)، وأشد الحسرة كلمة: (سلام عليكِ .. -
![Ravensong by Lee Maracle]()
Ravensong by Lee Maracle
8 ratingsLee Maracle, author of the best-selling I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, sets this novel in an urban Native American community on the Pacific Northwest coast in the early 1950s. Ravensong is by turns damning, humorous, inspirational, and prophetic...Categorized as:
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![Variations by Juliet Jacques]()
Variations by Juliet Jacques
6 ratingsVariations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit...Categorized as:
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![Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor]()
Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor
6 ratings1924. May Marshall is determined to spend the dog days of summer in self-imposed exile at her father’s farm in Keswick, Virginia. Following a naive dalliance that led to heartbreak and her expulsion from Mary Baldwin College, May returns home with a shameful secret only to find her father’s orchard is now the site of a lucrative moonshining enterprise...Categorized as:
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![The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson]()
The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
8 ratingsWhen vibrant, bright, and fiercely independent Lana Landing takes her own life, her sister Jean follows her instincts to flee to America and escape the pending state of emergency of her Jamaican home in 1981. A first novel. Reprint...Categorized as:
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![Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon]()
Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
10 ratingsFrom the highly acclaimed author of Bandbox and Dewey Defeats Truman–a searing new historical novel about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era.Washington, D.C., in the early 1950s: a world of bare-knuckled ideology, hard drinking, and secret dossiers, dominated by such outsized characters as Richard Nixon, Drew Pearson, Perle Mesta, and Joe McCarthy... -
![March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin]()
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
12 ratingsBefore he became a respected Congressman, John Lewis was clubbed, gassed, arrested over 40 times, and nearly killed by angry mobs and state police, all while nonviolently protesting racial discrimination. He marched side-by-side with Martin Luther King as the youngest leader of the Civil Rights Movement that would change a nation forever...Categorized as:
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![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso]()
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso
16 ratingsAn eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s... -
![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga]()
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
16 ratingsIn Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa...Categorized as:
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![Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal]()
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
16 ratingsAccording to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to discriminate against gay people who like cake. They're wrong when they tell you the Second Amendment protects the right to own a private arsenal. They're wrong when they say the death penalty isn't cruel or unusual punishment... -
![His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis]()
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, John Lewis
18 ratingsAn intimate and inspiring portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith... -
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![How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Smith]()
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Smith
18 ratingsThe Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to black feminism and its impact on today's struggles... -
![Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens]()
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens
24 ratingsPolitical activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. What do you have to lose? This question, posed by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to potential black voters, was mocked and dismissed by the mainstream media... -
![Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo]()
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
24 ratingsFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity... -
![We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates]()
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
26 ratings"We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South... -
![Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho]()
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
26 ratings“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations...Categorized as:
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![Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell]()
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
24 ratings“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill SolowayA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran]()
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
14 ratings“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”―Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts]()
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
18 ratingsThis is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear... -
![Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.]()
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
18 ratingsWe live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race... -
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![She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton]()
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
18 ratingsChelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what’s right, even when they have to fight to be heard...Categorized as:
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![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
![Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch]()
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
20 ratingsFirst of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure... -
![Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman]()
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
14 ratingsA breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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![The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson]()
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson
14 ratingsMeet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you’re never too little to make a difference.Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham’s segregation laws, she spoke up...Categorized as:
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