Sherrilyn Ifill Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. Former President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense Fund). Sr Fellow, Ford Foundation. Tweets are my own. Also at: @ifilljustice@mastodon.social
Devil
KingSherrilyn IfillIn 1949 the “Groveland 4,” Black men wrongly accused of rape were represented by NAACP_LDF (the story is told in @Gilbert_King’s Devil In The Grove). Just 6 wks ago FL finally posthumously pardoned them. Is this now forbidden history? https://t.co/u3suefDf4F
Paperback, 2019
$12.47$6.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Color of Law
Richard RothsteinSherrilyn IfillFor more, read Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Govt Segregated America.
Hardcover, 2019
$32.60$16.30 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It
Dorothy A. BrownSherrilyn IfillIf you haven’t yet read Georgetown Law Prof. @DorothyABrown’s book “The Whiteness of Wealth,” you’re missing out on understanding an important and rarely examined piece of the racial wealth gap puzzle.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--And How to Cure It
Richard L. HasenSherrilyn IfillLooking forward to reading @rickhasen’s #CheapSpeech. https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1500129628144369666
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel WilkersonSherrilyn IfillOur @NAACP_LDF staff book club committee with our first author - the incomparable @Isabelwilkerson. What an awesome discussion with our staff about The Warmth of Other Suns (our inaugural book club book). https://t.co/PflALvlw3M
Paperback, 2011
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert KingSherrilyn IfillAlso @SenatorDurbin encouraged folks to read @Gilbert_King’s Devil In The Grove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Marshall & @NAACP_LDF’s representation of Black men shot and framed by a racist sheriff in Groveland, FL. https://t.co/YNEqoZEYmy
Paperback, 2013
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Eye of the Wild
Nastassja MartinSherrilyn IfillWell, just finished Nastassja Martin’s “In The Eye Of The Wild” - one of the most challenging, haunting, astonishingly beautiful memoirs I’ve ever read. https://t.co/cg8qBSjAkQ
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trayvon Generation
Elizabeth AlexanderSherrilyn IfillI am literally holding my copy of this like a sacred text, waiting until I have a full day, windows open, to absorb this important new book from @ProfessorEA. If you read her @NewYorker piece about The Trayvon Generation, you know why. Happy Pub Day Elizabeth!
Hardcover, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Star Trek: Epic Episodes
TitanSherrilyn IfillOk I am an original Star Trek lady. I’ve seen every episode at least 50 times. I own the box set of all the seasons. Here are the definitive top 10 episodes of the original Star Trek: 1. City on the Edge of Forever 2. Charlie X 3. Amok Time 4. Elaan of Troyius 5. The Man Trap …
Paperback, 2018
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Mary Frances BerrySherrilyn IfillThis is just extraordinary. #CallieHouse is indeed the mother of reparations - founder of the Ex-Slave Pension Mvmt. I used to teach about Ms. House in my reparations clinic at @UMDLaw using excerpts from the superb biography by Dr. Mary Frances Berry, “My Face Is Black Is True.” https://t.co/uZp6fbKJ5n
Paperback, 2006
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book