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The Civil Rights Movement
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We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah Cummings
Biography, CUMMINGS, ELIJAH. A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers’ son in volatile South Baltimore shaped his life in activism, explaining how government oversight can become a positive part of a just American collective.
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Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Biography, DAVIS, SAMMY. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr. was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race, against a backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.
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Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White
by Patricia Sullivan
Biography, KENNEDY. A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s-and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time.
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
Biography, KING. Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. The autobiography delves into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Biography, KING. The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.
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King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson
Biography, KING. A photographic tour of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, public and private, covers a wide range of scenes, from King standing before his congregation to the bus boycott in Montgomery and his incarceration in a Birmingham jail to his assassination and its aftermath.
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
by Joseph Rosenbloom
Biography, KING. A deeply intimate chronicle of the last 31 hours of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life draws on dozens of interviews with Memphis insiders and recently released archival materials to share insights into his personal and political activities as well as his marital difficulties at the same time James Earl Ray orchestrated his assassination.
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King, Jr. Comes of Age
by Patrick Parr
Biography, KING. The Seminarian is the first definitive, full-length account of King’s years as a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary. Long passed over by biographers and historians, this period in King’s life is vital to understanding the historical figure he soon became.
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His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
Biography, LEWIS, JOHN. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
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Rosa Parks: A Biography
by Joyce Ann Hanson
Biography, PARKS. Recounts the life and accomplishments of the civil rights icon, and provides an overview of the history of African American women's efforts to improve their communities since the Civil War.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography, PARKS. This definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. "In the first sweeping history of Parks's life, Theoharis shows us that Parks not only sat down on the bus, but stood on the right side of justice for her entire life.” —Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP.
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by Charles Person
Biography, PERSON. One of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers—and the youngest of the original Freedom Riders—provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip of African American lives.
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The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
by Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Biography, RICHARDSON. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Gloria Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies--including her belief that black people had a right to self-defense--were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists.
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42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
by Michael G. Long
Biography, ROBINSON. Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. Featuring piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson's perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and strength of one of the nation's most athletically gifted and politically significant citizens.
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True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
by Kostya Kennedy
Biography, ROBINSON; Axis 360 eBook. Offers a new chronicle of the life of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's, and America's, most significant figures.
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William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
by William C. Kashatus
Biography, STILL. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist, and guide for fugitive slaves. This work details Still's life story beginning with his parents' escape from bondage in the early nineteenth century and continuing through his youth and adulthood as one of the nation's most important Underground Railroad agents and, later, as an early civil rights pioneer. Still worked personally with Harriet Tubman, assisted the family of John Brown, helped Brown's associates escape from Harper's Ferry after their famous raid, and was a rival to Frederick Douglass among nationally prominent African American abolitionists.
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster
Biography, WELLS. Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
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Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
by Preston Lauterbach
Biography, WITHERS. The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King Jr. riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer. But from his position at the heart of the cultural revolution, Withers was simultaneously gathering information for the FBI. Withers traversed disparate worlds, from Black Power meetings to raucous Memphis nightclubs where Elvis brushed shoulders with B. B. King. In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that informed Withers' seeming betrayal of those he witnessed, and suggests that Withers' attention to nuance--so arresting in his photography--also made him essential to the FBI.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
Biography, X. A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by Bill Steigerwald
Non-Fiction. Tells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that brought national attention to the shameful system of segregation.
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
by Curtis Wilkie
Non-Fiction, 305.896073. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A riveting account of the incident and its aftermath, When Evil Lived in Laurel is a tale of obsession, in which the infamous Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers became so fixated on killing Dahmer that the bungled attack ultimately led to Bowers's downfall and the destruction of his virulently racist organization. Drawing on the diary of a former Klan infiltrator who risked his life to help break the White Knights, veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South.
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by David J. Dennis
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 D423M. Pivoting between the voices of a father and son, this unique work of oral history and memoir chronicles the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter, that, taken together, paint a critical portrait of America.
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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
by Kinshasha Conwill
Non-Fiction, 305.896. With contributions by leading scholars, this thought-provoking analysis of the lasting effects of the Reconstruction on society is also a story of black men and women who reshaped a nation and the persistence of white supremacy and the perpetuation of the injustices of slavery.
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
by Marcus Garvey
Non-Fiction, 320.546. One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. A printer and newspaper editor in his youth, Garvey furthered his education in England and eventually traveled to the United States, where he impressed thousands with his speeches and millions more through his newspaper articles. His message of black pride resonated in all his efforts. This anthology contains some of his most noted writings, among them “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy,” "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World," and "Africa for the Africans," as well as powerful speeches on unemployment, leadership, and emancipation.
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Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads
by Al Sharpton
Non-Fiction. Rise Up is a rousing call to action for our nation, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Al Sharpton's unique experience as a politician, television and radio host, and civil rights leader.
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Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
by Benjamin Todd Jealous
Told in a series of parables, this courageous and empathetic book, drawing from a life lived on America's racial fault line, illuminates for each of us how the path to healing our nation's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.
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The Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Herbert R. Kohl
Non-Fiction, 323.092. A National Book Award-winning author evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl’s original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative" (Chicago Tribune).
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by Janet Dewart Bell
Non-Fiction, 323.0922. A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories celebrates the lesser-known leadership of African-American women in the 20th-century fight for civil rights, drawing on first-person interviews to offer deeply personal and intimate insights into what inspired and fueled the work of nine surviving Civil Rights-era activists.
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Non-Fiction, 323.1196. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for Black people. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free Black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over, in different forms, into Reconstruction and beyond; for most of the 20th century, many white Americans felt blithely comfortable denying their Black countrymen the right to travel freely on trains and buses. Yet it became more difficult to shackle someone who was cruising along a highway at 45 miles per hour. In Driving While Black, the acclaimed historian Gretchen Sorin reveals how the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing Black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road.
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegregated city bus service.
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. The celebrated civil rights leader outlines the trends in the African American struggle during the sixties, and pleads for peaceful coexistence between the African American and white communities.
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
by Kate Masur
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But claiming the equal-rights promises of the Declaration and the Constitution, a biracial movement arose to fight these racist state laws. Kate Masur's magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Its advocates battled in state legislatures, Congress, and the courts, and through petitioning, party politics and elections. They visited slave states to challenge local laws that imprisoned free blacks and sold them into slavery. Despite immovable white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, their vision became increasingly mainstream. After the Civil War, their arguments shaped the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, the pillars of our second founding.
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NAACP: Celebrating a Century; 100 Years in Pictures
by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Enhanced by hundreds of photographs, chronicles the one-hundred-year history of America's oldest, largest, and most important civil rights organization.
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Reporting Civil Rights: The Library of America Edition
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Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A two-volume anthology of journalism documenting more than 30 years of the African-American struggle for freedom and equal rights draws on nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts and features by such notable writers as David Halberstam, Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison.
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by Thomas E. Ricks
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 R426W. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter offers a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today, narrating its triumphs and defeats and highlighting lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool.
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Saying It Loud: 1966--the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by Mark Whitaker
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 W58S. Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers brilliant portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics and the teaching of Black history. Illustrations.
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary and award winner.
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Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy
by Darryl Pinckney
Non-Fiction, 324.62. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, Pinckney investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed throughout the historical narrative are Pinckney's own memories of growing up during the civil rights era, his unsure grasp of the events he saw on television or heard discussed, and the reactions of his parents to the social changes that were taking place at the time and later to Obama's election. He concludes with an examination of the current state of electoral politics.
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by Margaret Burnham
Non-Fiction, 342.730873. The director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project examines the legal apparatus that helped sustain Jim Crow-era violence, focusing on a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.
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Black Prophetic Fire
by Cornel West
Non-Fiction, 920.009296 W52B. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, in the engrossing dialogue with Buschendorf, and in his insightful introduction and powerful closing essay, Cornel West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire so essential in the age of Obama.
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Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle since Reconstruction
by William H. Chafe
New Non-Fiction, 973.0496 C346L. It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a masterspy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves who had joined him in New Bern, North Carolina. We will join the Union Army, Galloway told the recruiter, but only on our terms. Galloway then laid down his demands: the right to vote; the right to serve on juries; the right to run for elected office; equal pay for Black and white soldiers; schools for their children; jobs for women; and care for their families. In retrospect, the demands seem revolutionary. But not so, given the roles that Blacks were playing in the war. Hence, the recruiter said yes. Within days, 10,000 Blacks had joined Galloway to enlist in the Union Army. Those soldiers--along with nearly 200,000 other Blacks who enlisted--proved pivotal to destroying the system of plantation slavery. Soon, they would inaugurate the quest to create a truly democratic America.
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
by Michael Harriot
New Non-Fiction, 973.0496 H239B. The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family
by Gail Lumet Buckley
Non-Fiction. The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the story of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of her house-slave-turned-businessman ancestor, the branches of her family that lived in the North and South and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick Gregory
Non-Fiction. The activist and social satirist who trail-blazed a new form of racial commentary in the 1960s examines 100 key events in Black History through this collection of essays which examine Middle Passage, the creation of Jheri Curl and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
eAudiobook. The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by Bill Steigerwald
Non-Fiction. Tells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that brought national attention to the shameful system of segregation.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Feature Films, AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
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Betty & Coretta
Feature Films, BETTY. The stories of Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, and their roles in the civil rights movement during the twentieth century.
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The Butler
Feature Films, BUTLER. Follows the events in Cecil Gaines' life and in the country as he works as a White House butler under eight administrations.
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4 Little Girls
Feature Films, FOUR. Documents the events surrounding the 1963 bombing of an African American Baptist Church in Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four young girls.
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I Am Not Your Negro
Feature Films, I AM. Through archival interviews with James Baldwin and other footage, tells the story of racism in the United States in the twentieth century.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
Feature Films, JUDAS. When William O'Neal, a career thief, is turned into an FBI informant, he is tasked with infiltrating the Illinois Black Panther Party and reporting on the actions of their leader, Chairman Fred Hampton
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Malcolm X
Feature Films, MALCOLM. Inspiring story of Malcolm X, as he rises up from poverty, encounters the law, achieves spiritual enlightenment, and reaches out to others in the fight for human and civil rights.
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Mississippi Burning
Feature Films, MISSISSIPPI. Two FBI agents investigate the deaths of civil rights workers in a Mississippi town and discover a local cover-up.
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One Night in Miami
Feature Films, ONE. Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown meet in Miami, and discuss their respective roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Race
Feature Films, RACE. The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
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The Rosa Parks Story
Feature Films, ROSA. The story of Rosa Parks, an African American woman whose courage and determination helped her fight for justice and civil rights.
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Selma
Feature Films, SELMA. From the Oscar-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay comes the true story of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, a story of courage and hope that changed the world forever.
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Nationtime
Best known for his genre-bending movie Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is his vivid account of the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black delegates from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in a truncated 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
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Segregation in America
Examines the history of segregation and other discriminatory policies in the United States from the Civil War to the present day.
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Freedom Riders
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073. Documents the story of a group of civil rights activists who travelled by bus in the South during 1961 to challenge segregated travel facilities.
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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.11960073. Examines a 1946 incident of racial violence by South Carolina police against Army sergeant Isaac Woodard as he was returning home after World War II.
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MLK / FBI
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073 M363. Explores the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on declassified documents and incorporating archival footage.
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Father's Kingdom
Non-Fiction DVDs, B DIVINE. The untold story of an American civil rights pioneer, Father Divine, who at one time had over a million followers worldwide but whose story is little known because he claimed that he was God incarnate.
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I am MLK Jr.
Non-Fiction DVDs, B KING. Explores the life and career of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
Non-Fiction DVDs, B LEWIS. Chronicles the life and career of civil rights activist and politician John Lewis.
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Eyes on the Prize
Series DVDs, 323.1196073. The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
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The Black Lives Matter Movement
by Peggy J. Parks
YA Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Discusses the origins of the movement in the uneasy relationships that often exist between African Americans and law enforcement, the events that triggered its formation, reactions, efforts to hold police accountable, and police reform.
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
by Erica Martin
YA Non-Fiction, 811.6 M363A. This debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement, introducing lesser-known figures and moments just as crucial to the Movement and our nation's centuries-long fight for justice and equality.
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March
by John Lewis
YA Graphic Novels, FICTION LEWIS. A multi-volume graphic account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights covers his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his involvement in the Freedom rides and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
YA Fiction, STONE. Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism
by Rachael L Thomas
J Non-Fiction, 305.896073. In this title, readers learn about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, from the history of slavery and racism, to the slayings of Travon Martin and Michael Brown, to further efforts to end racism such as Campaign Zero, and #takeaknee, and Black Futures Lab.
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Heroes for Civil Rights
by David A. Adler
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Profiles the leaders and heroes of the civil rights movements, including Fannie Lou Hamer, the Little Rock Nine, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; examining what historical contribution they made in the effort to make equality a right for all.
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
by Larry Dane Brimner
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
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March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Christine King Farris
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Having led thousands in a march for civil rights to the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. made the most of the historical moment by giving a speech that would forever inspire people to continue to fight for change in the years ahead.
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We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A celebration of the history of the struggle for freedom as reflected through moments when the iconic song, "We Shall Overcome," was sung explains how the song has come to represent civil rights and freedom around the world.
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The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A young reader's introduction to the harrowing story traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African-Americans for the vote.
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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. An inspiring examination of the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this book focuses on the children who faced terrifying violence in order to walk alongside him in their fight for freedom and the right to vote.
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Give Us the Vote!: Over 200 Years of Fighting for the Ballot
by Susan Goldman Rubin
J Non-Fiction, 324.62. The award-winning author of Freedom Summer traces 200 years of voting rights activism in the United States, covering subjects ranging from the 19th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the voter suppression controversies that are targeting today’s people of color, Indigenous groups and immigrants.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Melissa Ferguson
J Non-Fiction, 394.261 F381M. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the life of the civil rights movement leader. Some people observe the day by singing, reading, or watching movies about him. Others volunteer in their community or make peace-inspired crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Joanna Ponto
J Non-Fiction, 394.261. Explains what Martin Luther King Jr. Day is and why it is celebrated.
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Trudi Strain Trueit
J Non-Fiction, 394.261 T767C. The third Monday in January is a time to remember a man who fought for peace and equality. This book discusses Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the origins of the day named in his honor.
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
J Non-Fiction, 782.421599. An engaging chronicle of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement through the changing lyrics of a classic patriotic song reveals how its words have been transformed by generations of protestors and civil rights pioneers throughout landmark historical movements. Illustrated by the three-time Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Uptown.
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Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
J Non-Fiction, 811.54. In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
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Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 811.6. The award-winning husband-and-wife team present a sumptuously illustrated tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commitment to non-violent protest in support of civil rights, in a metaphorical and spiritually symbolic poetic requiem that covers King's final months and assassination.
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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Presents the stories of 10 African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Backmatter includes a Civil Rights timeline, sources and further reading. Illustrated by a two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient.
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Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
by Linda Tarrant-Reid
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Traces more than four centuries of African-American history against a backdrop of national and world events, drawing on personal journals, interviews and archival materials to document times ranging from the Colonial period and slavery through the Civil War and the Civil Rights era.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
by Katherine Rawson
J Non-Fiction, 975.3. History recognizes the leadership and voice Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to the civil rights movement in 1960s America. A 30-foot tall statue of Dr. King gazes into the future full of hope for all humanity. His words of peace are carved in the walls of the monument as a reminder to all Americans of the power of peaceful protest.
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Maya Angelou
by Judith E. Harper
J Biography, ANGELOU. Describes the life and writing career of the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as her victory over such obstacles as prejudice, poverty, and abuse.
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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
by Melba Pattillo Beals
J Biography, BEALS. The Congressional Gold Medal-winning civil rights activist and author of the best-selling Warriors Don't Cry presents an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up in the face of adversity in the Jim Crow South.
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This is Your Time
by Ruby Bridges
J Biography, BRIDGES. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans—shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
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Coretta's Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King
by Alice Faye Duncan
J Biography, KING, CORETTA SCOTT. Told in poetry and prose, this introduction to Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an important figure in the history of activism and civil rights, shows how she carried on the struggle after his death, preserving his legacy for future generations.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Jennifer Fandel
J Biography, KING. Describes the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century civil rights leader
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Emma Lynch
J Biography, KING. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Why is he famous? How do we know about him? This series introduces you to the lives of famous men and women. Each illustrated life story is told by primary source material, encouraging you to discover how we find out about important people in history.
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Meet Martin Luther King Jr.
by Melody S. Mis
J Biography, KING. Profiles the Baptist minister who led the movement to give African Americans civil rights, discussing his childhood, activist works, and legacy.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader
by Robert E. Jakoubek
J Biography, KING. A critically acclaimed biography series of history's most notable African Americans includes straightforward and objective writing combined with important memorabilia and photographs.
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Rosa Parks: "Tired of Giving In"
by Anne E. Schraff
J Biography, PARKS. A full-color biography series features inspirational and contemporary African-Americans of interest to young people and who are important role models for all youngsters.
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Rosa Parks
by Jim Whiting
J Biography, PARKS. Highlights the life and accomplishments of the civil rights leader known for her refusal to step to the back of the bus, an action which sparked a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
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Meet Rosa Parks
by Melody S. Mis
J Biography, PARKS, ROSA. Profiles the African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked a boycott and helped drive the Civil Rights Movement.
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Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
by Yohuru Williams
Juvenile Biography, ROBINSON. This compelling biography of the barrier-breaking American hero and proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights reveals the person behind the legend, bringing to life this famed figure's legacy for new generation.
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Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
by Bonnie Bader
From organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the launching of the Civil Rights Movement, a fascinating biography traces the life of this extraordinary man who was an advocate of the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until he was assassinated in 1968.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
J Fiction, CURTIS. When his parents decide it is time to visit Grandma, ten-year-old Kenny and his siblings, including the "juvenile delinquent" Byron, journey to Alabama during a dark period in American history. Newbery Honor. Coretta Scott King Honor.
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We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963
by Shelia P. Moses
Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The Undefeated
by Kwame Alexander
Picture Books, ALEXANDER. The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover celebrates black American heroism and culture in a picture-book rendering of his performance on ESPN's ""The Undefeated." Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Henry's Freedom Box.
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