Our staff have organized several lists of books and films at New Lenox Library to better understand current events and the history of racism in America. These resources focus on a variety of topics, including historical context, systemic inequality, anti-Black violence, protest, intersectionality, allyship, education, hope, celebration, and resilience.
Our collection is always growing. View our New Releases for a list of monthly new media.
Non-Fiction Reading for Teens
When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
Russell Freedman