Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Winners

Inspired by Darlene Clark Hine’s call in her 2002 Organization of American Historians presidential address for more research on the origins of the civ ...more

Winners

	The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez 4.62 avg rating — 146 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 4.29 avg rating — 987 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 132 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam by Ula Yvette Taylor 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are an African People: Black Power and Independent Education from the 1960s to the Present by Russell J. Rickford 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul by Tanisha C. Ford 4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N.D.B. Connolly 4.27 avg rating — 110 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defining the Struggle by Susan D. Carle 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L. Williams (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 45 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 79 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey 4.42 avg rating — 225 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia by Matthew J. Countryman 3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh 4.01 avg rating — 138 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby 4.32 avg rating — 1,525 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma by J. Mills Thornton III 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice by Quito J. Swan liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Todd-Breland 4.60 avg rating — 42 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton 4.15 avg rating — 631 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle by Laurie B. Green really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society by Kent B. Germany 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi by Emilye Crosby really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Nominee (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bram Stoker Award
Hugo Award
Royal Society Science Book Prize
Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Newbery Medal
Nebula Award
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
National Book Award
J. Gordon Coogler Award
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