Black Wall Street Journey Reading List

Title
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
Author
Mary Pattillo
Title
Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification
Author
Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder
Title
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Author
Mehrsa Baradaran
Title
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Author
Natalie Y. Moore
Title
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Author
William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen
Title
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future
Author
Thomas Shapiro
Title
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans -- and How We Can Fix It
Author
Dorothy A. Brown
Title
Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Author
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Title
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Author
Richard Rothstein
Title
Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker
Author
Don Hayner
Title
Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in the 21st Century Urban America
Author
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Title
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Author
Isabel Wilkerson
Title
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author
Heather McGhee
Title
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Author
Thomas Healy
Title
Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
Author
Robert E. Weems and Jason P. Chambers
Title
Family Properties: How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Author
Beryl Satter
Title
Capitalism & Slavery
Author
Eric Williams
Title
Kings: The True Story of Chicago's Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers
Author
Nathan A. Thompson
Title
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities
Author
Andre M. Perry
Title
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Author
Ethan Michaeli
Title
Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Author
Dawn Turner
Title
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Author
Eve L. Ewing
Title
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author
Isabel Wilkerson
Title
Black Boy
Author
Richard Wright
Title
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America
Author
Nicholas Lemann
Title
Daddy Was a Number Runner
Author
Louise Meriwether
Title
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
Author
Robert E. Weems Jr.
Title
Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago's South Side
Author
Mariame Kaba & Essence McDowell
Title
Destination Chicago Jazz
Author
Sandor Demlinger & John Steiner
Title
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Author
Gwendolyn Brooks