East Austin Book Drive Benefiting Youth In Detention

EAST AUSTIN, TEXAS — Officials from the city's black community have organized a book drive benefiting youth at the juvenile detention center.

The book drive that kicked off on Monday, Oct. 1, will continue though Oct. 31. Organized by the Austin Justice Coalition and Huston-Tillotson University NAACP chapter, and the drive benefits youth housed at the Gardner-Betts/Travis County Juvenile Detention Center.

The aim of the drive is to provide quality books to he teens at the detention center. Donated books should be dropped off at the Austin Public Library system's Carver Branch located at 1161 Angelina St. There will be a crate at the library with an Austin Justice Coalition label where donated books can be deposited. Organizers ask for donations of paperback books only.

Recommended books include, but are not limited to, the following:

- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
- "The Miseducation of the Negro"
- "The Autobiography of Assata Shakur"
- "Last Man Standing"
- "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr."
- "Long Walk to Freedom"
- "The Philosophies and Opinions of Marcus Garvey"
- "The Alchemist"
- "The Richest Man in Babylon"
- "Think and Grow Rich"
- "Rich Dad, Poor Dad"
- "The Celestine Prophecy"
- "Animal Farm"
- "1984"
- "The Invisible Man"
- "21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader"
- "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
- "Story of My Life (Booker T. Washington)
- "Up From Slavery"
- "The Third Eye (Sophia Stewart)
- "Along the Way (James Weldon Johnson)
- "The Tipping Point"
- "The Art of War"

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