Below is a list of literature from the current and past civil rights movements that fit the message of the NURC movement and would be another source of inspiration and knowledge for our many conductors.
Neo-Civil Rights Generation Literature
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture - by Bakari Kitwana
The Miseducation of the Negro - by Carter G. Woodson
The Bluest Eye - by Toni Morrison
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America - by Kevin Powell
The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America - by Ivan Van Sertima
Black Spark, White Fire: Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe? - Richard Poe
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years - by Nelson George
Hip-Hop America - by Nelson George
Post-Soul Nation : The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes) - by Nelson George
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? - by Eric Dyson
Driving While Black: What to Do if You are a Victim of Racial Profiling - by Kenneth Meeks
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, & Reality - by Chuck DRace Matters - by Cornel West
America Beyond the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans - by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks - by Randall Robinson
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation - by Jeff Chang
Mapping Human History: Race, Genes, & Our Common Origins - by Steve Olsen
Confessions of a Video Vixen - by Karrine Steffans
Five Percenter Rap: God Hop’s Music, Message, And Black Muslim Mission - by Felicia Miyakawa
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America - by Tricia Rose
The Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It? Gangsta Rap and Visions of Black Violence - by Bakari Kitwana
Angry Black White Boy: A Novel - by Adam Mansbach
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America - by Bakari Kitwana
Civil Rights Generation Literature
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told To Alex Haley - by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements - by George Breitman
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. - by Martin Luther King Jr. and Clayborne Carson
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - by Martin Luther King Jr.
Go Tell it on the Mountain - by James Baldwin
James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays - by James Baldwin & Toni Morrison
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1968-1998) - by Nikki Giovanni
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People - by Nikki Giovanni
Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South - Kenneth Stampp
Early Civil Rights Generation Literature
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano : Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - by Olaudah Equiano
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - by Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - by Harriet Jacobs
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography - by Booker T. WashingtonThe Souls of Black Folk - by W.E.B. DuBois
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9) - by Marcus Garvey