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Racial Justice and Anti Racism Resources
Available from the Niagara Falls Public Library.

Click on a title to view additional information / request a copy in the library catalog.



Nonfiction
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Between the world and me  by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow  by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

​​Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo

How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.

​How we fight white supremacy : a field guide to Black resistance [edited by] Akiba Solomon + Kenrya Rankin.

Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor. by Layla F. Saad.

White fragility [CD sound recording] : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism  by Robin DiAngelo
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​Between the world and me  by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Memoirs

Heavy: an American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

My Vanishing Country  by Bakari Sellers

Fiction

The Revisioners : a novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton.

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

​Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

How long 'til black future month? by N. K. Jemisin

The sellout : a novel by Paul Beatty

The deep [sound recording] by Rivers Solomon

Such a fun age by Kiley Reid

Documentaries / TV / Movies
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  • I Am Not Your Negro  (Hoopla)
  • Crown Heights (Hoopla)
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (DVD)

Hours and Contact Information

Main Library
​1425 Main Street 

Hours:
Monday:        9am - 9pm
Tuesday:        9am - 9pm
Wednesday:  9am - 9pm
Thursday:     9am - 5pm
Friday:           9am - 5pm
Saturday:      9am - 5pm
Sunday: Closed
​716-286-4894



​Email: 
nflref@nioga.org

Local History Dept.
1425 Main Street

Hours:
Monday: 5pm - 8pm
Tuesday: 9am - 4pm
Wednesday: 1pm - 4pm
Thursday: 9am - 4pm
Contact us:
Email: NFLH@nioga.org

*Requests for items from archives must be submitted 2 business days in advance. 

LaSalle Library
8728 Buffalo Avenue

Hours: 
Monday:        10am - 8pm
Tuesday:        10am - 8pm
Wednesday:  Closed
Thursday:     10am - 5pm
Friday:           12pm - 5pm
Saturday:      Closed
​Sunday:        Closed
​716-283-8309
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  • Passport Service
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  • Library Board
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  • Employment
  • Local History Department
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      • Video Library
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