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Civil Rights and Race Nonfiction Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement Julian E. Zelizer Fiction Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi MaNishtana Nonfiction Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb David Kushner Nonfiction The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl Marra B. Gad Nonfiction Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender Lise Pearlman Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram Nonfiction Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century Cheryl Lynn Greenberg Nonfiction Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook Christopher Noxon Fiction Waveland Simone Zelitch Nonfiction Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir T Kira Madden Fiction Color Me In Natasha Díaz Nonfiction City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed. Fiction Green: A Novel Sam Graham-Felsen Poetry Forest with Castanets Diane Mehta Fiction The Limits of the World Jennifer Acker Fiction Little & Lion Brandy Colbert Nonfiction Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s Marc Dollinger Nonfiction The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South Jo Ivester Children's As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom Richard Michelson Children's Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank Nancy Churnin; Yevgenia Nayberg, illus. Children's A Tugging String: A Novel About Growing Up During the Civil Rights Era David T. Greenberg Nonfiction The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir Davon Loeb Children's Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi Stacia Deutsch; Craig Orback, illus. Children's The Length of a String Elissa Brent Weissman Fiction The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride Fiction What Makes Us Rafi Mittlefehldt Nonfiction You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South Stephanie Deutsch Nonfiction Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community Rabbi Marc Schneier Nonfiction The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Nonfiction Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit Lila Corwin Berman Nonfiction The Art of Leaving: A Memoir Ayelet Tsabari Fiction Miss Burma Charmaine Craig Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty Nonfiction Ace of Spades David Matthews Nonfiction The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride Children's Let's Talk About Race Julius Lester, Karen Barbour (illus.) Nonfiction Lovesong: Becoming a Jew Julius Lester Children's Ezra's BIG Shabbat Question Aviva L. Brown, Anastasia Knavaliu (illus.) Nonfiction Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color LaNitra M. Berger Nonfiction Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Michael W. Twitty Nonfiction Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Mira Jacob Fiction The Thread Collectors: A Novel Alyson Richman, Shaunna Edwards Nonfiction Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau Nonfiction The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance Rebecca Clarren Children's The Rabbi and the Reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight against Silence Audrey Ades; Chiara Fedele, illus. Nonfiction The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor Anais Granofsky Fiction We Are Not Strangers Josh Tuininga Nonfiction Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery Richard Kreitner Children's Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug Sarah Aronson; Andrea D'Aquino, illus. human rights civil rights jews of color
Nonfiction Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb David Kushner
Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram
Nonfiction Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
Nonfiction City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
Children's As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom Richard Michelson
Children's Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank Nancy Churnin; Yevgenia Nayberg, illus.
Nonfiction You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South Stephanie Deutsch
Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty
Nonfiction Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color LaNitra M. Berger
Nonfiction Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau
Children's The Rabbi and the Reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight against Silence Audrey Ades; Chiara Fedele, illus.
Nonfiction Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery Richard Kreitner
