"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Dr. MLK Jr
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
Taylor Branch
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 1
Eric Foner
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Anne Moody
Parting the Waters
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Juan Williams
March: Book One (March, #1)
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History)
Raymond Arsenault
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
The Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
James W. Loewen
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (The New Southern Studies)
Melanie Benson Taylor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Martin Luther King Jr.
All Labor Has Dignity (King Legacy)
The Trumpet of Conscience
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Strength to Love
The Measure of a Man (Facets)
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy Book 2)
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Why We Can't Wait
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image
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