African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century
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African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century
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African Americans + Civil rights + History
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- Civil rights for beginners, Paul Von Blum ; illustrations by Frank Reynoso
- Alabama v. King, Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement, Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray, with David Fisher
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Marshall Frady
- I may not get there with you, the true Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Eric Dyson
- Unexampled courage, the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, Richard Gergel
- A spy in Canaan, how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement, Marc Perrusquia
- Making our way home, the Great Migration and the Black American dream, Blair Imani ; foreword by Patrisse Cullors ; illustrations by Rachelle Baker
- Behind the dream, the making of the speech that transformed a nation, Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
- Born along the color line, the 1933 Amenia Conference and the rise of a national civil rights movement, Eben Miller
- Vernon can read!, a memoir, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. with Annette Gordon-Reed
- How it feels to be free, a production of Yap Films Inc. in association with American Masters Pictures, ITVS, Black Public Media and Documentary Channel ; producer, Elizabeth Trojian ; director, Yoruba Richen
- This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed, how guns made the civil rights movement possible, Charles E. Cobb, Jr
- Roy Wilkins, the quiet revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan
- Negroes with guns, Rob Williams and Black power, California Newsreel presents ; directed by Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts ; writer, Sandra Dickson ; produced by the Documentary Institute
- Ready for a brand new beat, how "Dancing in the street" became the anthem for a changing America, Mark Kurlansky
- Die, nigger, die!, a political autobiography, by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) ; foreword by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
- Kennedy and King, the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, Steven Levingston
- To the promised land, Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice, Michael K. Honey
- Seeing through race, a reinterpretation of civil rights photography, Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow
- The rise, by Jay Leslie
- Walk with me, a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, Kate Clifford Larson
- The three mothers, how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs
- Revolution in our time, the Black Panther Party's promise to the people, Kekla Magoon
- Martin & Mahalia, his words, her song, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- On the road to freedom, a guided tour of the civil rights trail, by Charles E. Cobb, Jr
- Dancing down the barricades, Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history, Matthew Frye Jacobson
- Waging a good war, a military history of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968, Thomas E. Ricks
- Choosing brave, how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement, Angela Joy ; illustrated by Janelle Washington
- King, pilgrimage to the mountaintop, Harvard Sitkoff
- Lift every voice, the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement, Patricia Sullivan
- The rise, Jay Leslie
- Be a king, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by James Ransome
- The rise, Selene Castrovilla
- The Black Panthers, vanguard of the revolution, written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ; produced by Laurens Grant ; a co-production of Firelight Films, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced by Firelight Films, Inc
- A time to act, John F. Kennedy's big speech, words by Shana Corey ; pictures by R. Gregory Christie
- A dream of freedom, the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968, Diane McWhorter ; foreword by Fred Shuttlesworth
- The children, David Halberstam
- A more beautiful and terrible history, the uses and misuses of civil rights history, Jeanne Theoharis
- Slavery by another name, produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc
- The South, Jim Crow and its afterlives, Adolph L. Reed Jr. ; with a foreword by Barbara J. Fields
- Desert rose, the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King, Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King
- Stokely, a life, by Peniel E. Joseph
- Martin Luther King, Jr., a man with a dream, by Alyse Sweeney ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi
- The campus color line, college presidents and the struggle for Black freedom, Eddie R. Cole
- My people, five decades of writing about Black lives, Charlayne Hunter-Gault ; foreword by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Let us fight as free men, black soldiers and civil rights, Christine Knauer
- The rise, Nel Yomtov
- Aretha Franklin, Respect, producer, Gregory Hall ; director/writer, Martin Melhuish ; produced by Corridor Group Productions, Inc
- When the smoke cleared, the 1968 rebellions and the unfinished battle for civil rights in the nation's capital, Kyla Sommers
- Saying it loud, 1966--the year Black power challenged the civil rights movement, Mark Whitaker