EventsCivil Rights Movement, USA

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Works (75)

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Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America by Russell Freedman
The Best American Comics 2019 by Jillian Tamaki
The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin — not in English Common Knowledge
Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power by David T. Beito
Black Power in the Bluff City: African American Youth and Student Activism in Memphis, 1965–1975 by Shirletta Kinchen
Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews
Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation by John Lewis
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter: A Novel by Kia Corthron
The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans by Jonathan Scott Holloway
The Civil Rights Movement (Black History) by Stuart A. Kallen
Civil Rights Movement Through the Eyes of Lyndon B. Johnson (Presidential Perspectives) by Moira Rose Donohue
The Civil Rights Movement: Opposing Viewpoints - American History by William Dudley
The Civil Rights Movement: The 20th Century (Primary Source Readers) by Wendy Conklin
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Chong
Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin by Emilie Plateau
Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by Lila Quintero Weaver
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington (Step into Reading) by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice by Carole Boston Weatherford
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial by Susan E. Goodman
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution by Margot Adler
Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
In Defense of Populism: Protest and American Democracy by Donald T. Critchlow
Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams: A Memoir by Isabel López
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
I Love My People by Kim Singleton
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
March: Book One by John Lewis — not in English Common Knowledge
Martin Luther King : "I have a dream." [video recording] by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Lutrher King: pros and cons by Marisa Paltrinieri
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson
nigger: an autobiography by Dick Gregory
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop by Lenny Duncan
Red Shirley by Lou Reed
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda Gartz
Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest Withers by Richard Cahan
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg
Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice by Susanna Reich
Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song by Gary Golio
The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History by Sandra Neil Wallace
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement by Leslie G. Kelen
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Three who dared by Tom Cohen
Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics by Matthew L. Harris
To Everything There is a Season by Allan M. Winkler
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging by Ben McBride
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lerone Bennett
Selma's Self-Sacrifice by Frederick D. Reese1960s