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 (844 copies)
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr. (420 copies)
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch (393 copies)
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in… by Kevin Boyle (321 copies)
• The Children by David Halberstam (246 copies)
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the… by David Garrow (235 copies)
• The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and… by Gene Roberts (164 copies)
• Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism… by Clayborne Carson (117 copies)
• I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King,… by Michael Eric Dyson (107 copies)
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio (105 copies)
• Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights… by Henry Hampton (96 copies)
• A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell (94 copies)
• When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson (88 copies)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical… by Barbara Ransby (86 copies)
• Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of… by Peniel E. Joseph (83 copies)
• Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir by Jr. Vernon E. Jordan (76 copies)
• A Dream of Freedom : The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to… by Diane McWhorter (74 copies)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and… by Donald T. Phillips (70 copies)
• My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights… by Juan Williams (66 copies)
• Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely… by Stokely Carmichael (65 copies)
• A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in… by Shelby Steele (62 copies)
• Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King,… by Nick Kotz (58 copies)
• America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom (55 copies)
• Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height (55 copies)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington (All… by Stephen Marchesi (54 copies)
• I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin… by Walter Dean Myers (45 copies)
• For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Chana Kai Lee (42 copies)
• One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the… by Phyllis Vine (42 copies)
• Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown (38 copies)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by William J. Weatherby (35 copies)
• Black is a Country by Nikhil Pal Singh (34 copies)
• Don't Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr. by Kenneth C. Davis (34 copies)
• Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights… by James Farmer (33 copies)
• The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in… by Thomas Borstelmann (32 copies)
• Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia… by Virginia Foster Durr (31 copies)
• Freedom Bound by Robert Weisbrot (31 copies)
• Son Of The Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir by Karl Fleming (30 copies)
• Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy (27 copies)
• The Gospel According to RFK by Robert F. Kennedy (26 copies)
• We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement… by Herb Boyd (24 copies)
• King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Johnson (24 copies)
• Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil… by Doreen Rappaport (22 copies)
• Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the… by Bettye Collier-Thomas (22 copies)
• The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black… by Nick Bryant (20 copies)
• Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish… by Marc Schneier (19 copies)
• Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great Teacher (Great African… by Pat McKissack (18 copies)
• Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South,… by Jeanne Theoharis (15 copies)
• But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the… by Glenn T. Eskew (15 copies)
• The Civil Rights Movement (Seminar Studies in History… by Bruce J. Dierenfield (15 copies)
• Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the… (14 copies)

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