Subject: African Americans › Civil rights › History › 20th century

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• Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (574 copies)
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. (339 copies)
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch (320 copies)
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in… by Kevin Boyle (267 copies)
• The Children by David Halberstam (206 copies)
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the… by David J. Garrow (180 copies)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and… by Gene Roberts (125 copies)
• I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King,… by Michael Eric Dyson (96 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 (79 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 (67 copies)
• Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of… by Peniel E. Joseph (58 copies)
• Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir by Vernon E., Jr. Jordan (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 (49 copies)
• America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom (48 copies)
• Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King,… by Nick Kotz (46 copies)
• A Dream of Freedom by Diane McWhorter (46 copies)
• Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height (41 copies)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (All… by Stephen Marchesi (37 copies)
• One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the… by Phyllis Vine (35 copies)
• Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography by Jamil Al-Amin (33 copies)
• I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther… by Walter Dean Myers (31 copies)
• For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in… by Chana Kai Lee (30 copies)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by William J. Weatherby (30 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)
• King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Johnson (18 copies)
• Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great Teacher (Great African… by Pat McKissack (16 copies)
• The Bystander: John F. Kennedy And the Struggle for Black… by Nick Bryant (16 copies)
• We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement… by Herb Boyd (15 copies)
• Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil… by Doreen Rappaport (14 copies)
• Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish… by Marc Schneier (14 copies)
• James Baldwin: The Legacy by Quincy Troupe (13 copies)
• Like a Mighty Stream: The March on Washington August… by Patrik Henry Bass (12 copies)
• Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South,… by Jeanne Theoharis (12 copies)
• Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity… by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (11 copies)

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