John Hope Franklin Reading Order

by Imani Perry

60 books

Reading Order

1

The Color of the Law

1999

2

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

2003

3

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

2003

4

Journey of Hope

2004

5

Root and Branch

2005

6

The Black Arts Movement

2006

7

North Carolina Slave Narratives

2006

8

A Little Taste of Freedom

2006

9

Battling the Plantation Mentality

2007

10

An African Republic

2007

11

A Faithful Account of the Race

2009

12

Joining Places

2009

13

Proudly We Can Be Africans

2009

14

A Movement Without Marches

2009

15

Emancipation's Diaspora

2009

16

African Cherokees in Indian Territory

2009

17

Examining Tuskegee

2009

18

Upbuilding Black Durham

2009

19

Self-Taught

2009

20

All Bound Up Together

2009

21

First Fruits of Freedom

2010

22

David Ruggles

2010

23

Right to Ride

2010

24

Torchbearers of Democracy

2010

25

Living for the City

2010

26

Way Up North in Louisville

2010

27

North of the Color Line

2010

28

The African American Roots of Modernism

2011

29

Left of the Color Line

2012

30

War! What Is It Good For?

2012

31

Grassroots Garveyism

2012

32

Death Blow to Jim Crow

2012

33

Crossroads at Clarksdale

2012

34

Help Me to Find My People

2012

35

Doctoring Freedom

2012

36

American Africans in Ghana

2012

37

Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens

2013

38

From the Bullet to the Ballot

2013

39

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

2013

40

Geographies of Liberation

2014

41

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

2015

42

Not Straight, Not White

2016

43

A Chance for Change

2016

44

Colored Travelers

2016

45

Making Gullah

2017

46

Congo Love Song

2017

47

Game of Privilege

2017

48

The Promise of Patriarchy

2017

49

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

2018

50

May We Forever Stand

2018

51

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

2019

52

Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

2020

53

Visualizing Equality

2020

54

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom

2020

55

Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century

2020

56

Unceasing Militant

2020

57

The Colored Conventions Movement

2021

58

Behold the Land

2021

59

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

2021

60

Arise Africa, Roar China

2021