| A
Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr by Clayborne Carson (Editor), et al ~ In his introduction,
the one-time ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young refers to
MLK as "the voice of the century," and this collection deftly pays
homage to that powerful voice. Carson (a Stanford University
historian) and Shepard have compiled 12 of King's greatest speeches |
| Divided
We Stand by Bruce Nelson ~ This is an important piece of
scholarship that deserves wide attention and debate. |
| Freedom's
Daughters : The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from
1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson ~ Although men like
Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael grabbed the headlines,
women provided not just the backbone but frequently the leadership
of the civil rights movement, this punchy popular history reminds
us. |
| Freedomways
Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country by Esther C.
Jackson, Constance Pohl (Contributor) |
| I
May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Michael Eric Dyson ~ Provocative preacher-teacher
Michael Eric Dyson, known for his hip-hop-style delivery and
encyclopedic intellectual powers, heroically tries to update and
examine the true legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. for a glib
Generation-X world. |
| King
: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by
Charles Johnson, et al ~ The legacy of Martin Luther King
Jr. and the civil rights movement is well documented in prose, but
for sheer emotional power, nothing can compare to the pictures from
this era. It's a challenge for a writer's words to match the force
of Bob
Adelman's photographs in this book |
| Let
Nobody Turn Us Around by Manning Marable (Editor),
Leith
Mullings (Editor) |
| My
Soul Is a Witness : A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era
1954-1965 by Bettye
Collier-Thomas, V. P. Franklin
~ A powerful and inspiring
record of one of the most significant periods in America's history,
which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for
civil rights. |
| Pillar
of Fire : America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor
Branch ~ Pillar
of Fire is the
second volume of Taylor Branch's magisterial three-volume history of
America during the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Branch's thesis, as he explains in the introduction, is that "King's
life is the best and most important metaphor for American history in
the... Read more |
| Riot
and Remembrance by James S. Hirsch ~ Try as one might to disguise and
forget the shameful events of the past, murder will out. So James
Hirsch, author of the acclaimed book Hurricane, shows in this
careful examination of a particularly shameful episode in modern
American history. |
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|
 Grandmama's
Pride (Golden Kite Honors (Awards)) by
Becky Birtha (Author) and
Colin Bootman (Author) (Hardcover - Sep 15,
2005) ~ More
Golden Kite Honors (Book Subject)
~ A 1956 summer visit to their grandmother's home exposes two African-American
girls to segregation and prejudice unlike anything they have experienced in the
North.
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| Rosa
Parks (Penguin Lives) by Douglas Brinkley |
| The
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm
X, et al ~ Malcolm X's searing memoir
belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are
many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his
transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into
an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his
militant... Read more |
| The
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin
Luther King Jr, Clayborne Carson (Editor) ~ 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
Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz (Books)
(Author)
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| The
Civil Rights Movement : A Photographic History, 1954-68
by Steven
Kasher, Myrlie Evers-Williams ~ In an era saturated by
media, our collective memory is formed by visual images. The
historical images collected here by photographer and writer Kasher
in The Civil Rights Movement
are necessary reminders, in a time of white backlash, of just how
bitter and... Read more |
| The
Unsteady March : The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in
America by Philip A.
Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith |
| Voices
in Our Blood : America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
by Jon Meacham (Editor) ~ The civil rights movement not
only changed America for the better, it also inspired some of the
nation's best writing, as the pieces collected in Voices
in Our Blood
illustrate. The 40 essays contained in this anthology
succeed in "capturing the complications behind the public spectacles
and... Read more |
| Voices
of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the
1950s Through the 1980s by Henry
Hampton, Steve Fayer
(Contributor) ~ In this companion to the acclaimed
television series "Eyes on the Prize", the authors draw on nearly
1,000 interviews with civil rights activists, politicians,
reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary
people who took part in the struggle, to weave a fascinating
narrative of... Read more |
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More on The Struggle for Civil Rights |
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Mississippi
Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
by
Constance Curry (Author),
Winson Hudson (Author), (Hardcover) Other Editions:
Paperback
~ Hudson is a relatively unknown
activist from the relatively unfamiliar Leake County, MS, whose small acts of
bravery made a big difference. Readers who didn't catch her profile in
Brian Lanker's
I Dream a World will be pleased with
this chronicle of her struggles to register to vote, desegregate the public
schools, and bring racial equality to her rural town.