March

Powerful, harrowing, upsetting and important. Book Two focuses on the 1961 Freedom Rides and the March on Washington D.C., ending with the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing. Now is the perfect time to read Lewis' books. It's important to know our American history: how peaceful protests for Black people's basic right to exist were for so long met with horrific White violence, and how dare we now condemn Black people - who just want to live and breathe without fear of being murdered - for protesting wrong.