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Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

By Nickolas Patterson

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

By Diane McWhorter

Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By Leon F. Litwack

The Algiers Motel Incident

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle

By Glenn T. Eskew

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America

By Kristian Williams, Joy James (Brown University)

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By Jon Meacham

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Slavery: History And Historians

By Peter J. Parish

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

Major Problems in African American History: Volume II: From Freedom to Freedom Now," 1865 - 1990s"

By Thomas C. Holt (The University of Chicago), Elsa Barkley Brown (The University of Maryland, College Park)

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, With a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author

By Clayborne Carson

History of Negro Revolt

By C.L.R. James

Africa

By Alice Werner

The Black History of the White House

By Clarence Lusane

I′ve got the Light of Freedom – The Organising Tradition & the Mississippi Freedom Struggle: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

By Payne, Charles M

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980

By J. Theoharis, K. Woodard

Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980

By J. Theoharis, K. Woodard

The Regal Theater and Black Culture

By C. Semmes

Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

By D. Penner, K. Ferdinand

'Abdu'l-Baha's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity

By N. Mottahedeh

Anthropology and Africa: Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene

By Sally Falk Moore

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By martin-luther-king-jr

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance

By Rufus Burrow, Jr.

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Steven F. Lawson