Subject: African Americans › Civil rights › History

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• Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (576 copies)
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. (343 copies)
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch (322 copies)
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in… by Kevin Boyle (268 copies)
• The Children by David Halberstam (207 copies)
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the… by David J. Garrow (182 copies)
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams (179 copies)
• Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail by Frances Fox Piven (127 copies)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and… by Gene Roberts (126 copies)
• I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King,… by Michael Eric Dyson (96 copies)
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of… by Michael Eric Dyson (93 copies)
• Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism… by Clayborne Carson (92 copies)
• A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell (83 copies)
• Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights… by Henry Hampton (80 copies)
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio (77 copies)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby (72 copies)
• When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson (69 copies)
• Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (62 copies)
• Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir by Vernon E., Jr. Jordan (57 copies)
• Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of… by Peniel E. Joseph (57 copies)
• Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely… by Stokely Carmichael (56 copies)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and… by Donald T. Phillips (55 copies)
• A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in… by Shelby Steele (53 copies)
• My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights… by Juan Williams (50 copies)
• America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom (49 copies)
• A Dream of Freedom by Diane McWhorter (47 copies)
• Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King,… by Nick Kotz (47 copies)
• Black Protest by Joanne Grant (47 copies)
• Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height (42 copies)
• Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the DIlemma of… by Roger Wilkins (40 copies)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (All… by Stephen Marchesi (38 copies)
• One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the… by Phyllis Vine (36 copies)
• Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography by Jamil Al-Amin (33 copies)
• Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform,… by Manning Marable (33 copies)
• Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire… by Angela Davis (32 copies)
• For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in… by Chana Kai Lee (31 copies)
• I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther… by Walter Dean Myers (31 copies)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by William J. Weatherby (30 copies)
• The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in… by Manning Marable (29 copies)
• The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in… by Thomas Borstelmann (29 copies)
• Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights… by James Farmer (28 copies)
• Don't Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr. (Don't Know… by Kenneth C. Davis (28 copies)
• Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia… by Virginia Foster Durr (26 copies)
• Black is a Country by Nikhil Pal Singh (26 copies)
• The Gospel According to RFK by Robert F. Kennedy (25 copies)
• Freedom Bound by Robert Weisbrot (24 copies)
• Son Of The Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir by Karl Fleming (23 copies)
• Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy (23 copies)
• Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the… by Bettye Collier-Thomas (22 copies)
• Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine… by Eileen Lucas (22 copies)

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