
Community Race
Relations Coalition
Community Race Relations Coalition
P.O. Box 824 Waco, TX 76703-0824 (254) 717-7903






LINKS to Resources and
Suggested Reading
American Civil Liberties
Union of Texas (ACLU)
Big Brothers and Sisters
1905 Washington Ave., Waco
(254) 776-2862
Communities in Schools
- Central Texas
1001 Washington Ave., Waco
(254) 753-6002
http://www.ciscentraltexas.org/
Economic Opportunities Advance-
ment Corporation (EOAC)
500 Franklin Ave., Waco
(254) 753-0331
http://eoacwaco.org/
League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC)
Waco Council #273
915 LaSalle Ave. #A, Waco
(254) 235-8664
National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People (NAACP)
PO Box 20511, Waco 76702
(254) 733-5261
http://waconaacp.org/
Waco Hispanic Museum
2815 Speight Ave., Waco
(in the South Waco Recreation Center)
(254) 548-9730
https://wacoheartoftexas.com/things-
Area Resources
Videos
TED Talk, Daryl Davis: "Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw
Integrated Schools: Families Choosing Integration
https://integratedschools.org/category/news
GAO Study: Segregation worsening in U.S. schools
http://tinyurl.com/ydxmoje3
Understanding Race
https://www.understandingrace.org/
Tampa Bay Times: Why cops shoot
http://tinyurl.com/ycmdk7e7
Micro-Expressions
and their relationships to race, gender,
social and financial status
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZhi9q0Vs4
Verna Myers, TED Talks:
How to overcome our biases?
Walk boldly toward them!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+talks+Verna+Myers
Grassroots Leadership study shows
African Americans confined longer
in Travis County Jail
http://tinyurl.com/y9k27rcz
I went to school in Charlottesville.
I know white anger quite well
http://tinyurl.com/ydgb7jqj
Being Black in Public
https://tinyurl.com/yd8lk9gc
Educator Jane Elliott Talks Trump, Kaepernick, and Fixing Racism
Refuting Fear: Immigration, Youth, and California's Stunning Decline in Crime and Violence
http://tinyurl.com/yavsad3x
Extensive data shows the punishing reach of racism for black boys
http://tinyurl.com/yb235v4b
Recommended Reading
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The members of the CRRC Board
are delighted to share the following recommendations for further reading and viewing,
study, discussion, and understanding of inequality issues in central Texas.

Alexander, Michelle -
The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Color Blindness
The New Press; New York, 2010
Anderson, Carol -
White Rage: The Unspoken
Truth of Our Racial Divide
Bloomsbury Publishing USA;
New York, 2016
Baldwin, James -
The Fire Next Time
Dial Press; New York, 1963
Blackmon, Douglas -
Slavery by Another Name:
to World War II
Doubleday; New York, 2008
Coates, Ta-Nehisi -
Between the World and Me
Random House LLC; New York, 2015
Daniel-Tatum, Beverly -
Can We Talk About Race?
Beacon Press; Boston, 2007
Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?"
Hachette (Basic Books) - New York,
September 1997
Ellison, Ralph -
The Invisible Man
Random House, New York, 1952
Galeano, Eduardo -
Open Veins of Latin America:
Five Centuries of the Pillage of
a Continent
Monthly Review, New York, 1971
Gonzales, Rigoberto -
Butterfly Boy: Memories of
a Chicano Mariposa
Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2006
Grande, Reyna -
The Distance Between Us:
A Memoir
Washington Square Press
(Simon & Schuster); New York, 2013
Griffin, John Howard -
The Short and Tragic Life of
Robert Peace
Scribner; New York, 2014
Hooks, Bell -
Ain't I A Woman:
Black Women and Feminism
South End Press; Brooklyn, NY, 1981

Kendi, Ibram X. -
How to Be an Antiracist
One World/Random House;
New York, 2019
Ngozi Adiche, Chimamanda -
Americanah
Knopf; New York, 2013
Picoult, Jodi -
Small Great Things: A Novel
Ballantine Books; New York, 2016
Rankine, Claudia -
Citizen: An American Lyric
Graywolf Press;: Minneapolis MN, 2014
Reséndez, Andrés -
The Other Slavery:
Enslavement in America
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Boston, 2016
Sisneros, Sandra -
The House on Mango Street
Arte Público Press, 1984
Knopf Doubleday; New York, 1991
Urrea, Luis Alberto -
The Devil's Highway:
A True Story
Back Bay Books; Boston, 2002
Viramontes, Helena Maria -
Under The Feet of Jesus
Penguin Books; New York, 1995
Wilkerson, Isabel -
The Warmth of Other Suns:
Great Migration
Vintage;: New York, 2011
Wise, Tim -
White Like Me: Reflections on
Race from a Privileged Son
Soft Skull Press; Berkeley, CA 2007
Wright, Richard -
Native Son
Harper & Brothers; New York, 1940
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