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Jessica’s favorite books

Gone With the Wind by Herb Bridges What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin Fire!! by Wallace Thurman Kindred by Octavia E. Butler Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler I've Been to the Mountaintop by Martin Luther King Jr. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Roots by Alex Haley
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