Description: Named one of Smithsonian's Best Books of 2023
2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award
2024 Philip Taft Labor History Award
2024 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Nonfiction Longlist
2024 L.A. Times Book Award Finalist in History
An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears.
Brief description: Blair LM Kelley is Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Review Quotes: [Blair LM] Kelley's Black Folk opens our minds up to Black workers, narrating their complex lives over 200 years of American history.
--Ibram X. Kendi, Atlantic "Atlantic"