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  • Katherine Mellen Charron The best books on women in the civil rights movement Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Book cover of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power Book cover of A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle Book cover of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
  • Paul Kendrick The best memoirs of the civil rights movement Book cover of Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Book cover of An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America Book cover of Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy Book cover of My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance Book cover of Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
  • Keisha N. Blain The best biographies of Black women in the Civil Rights Movement Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Book cover of The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation Book cover of A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement Book cover of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Jerry Mikorenda The best books about the early history of the Civil Rights Movement Book cover of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Book cover of Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy Book cover of The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women During the Slave Era Book cover of The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution Book cover of Speak Out In Thunder Tones: Letters And Other Writings By Black Northerners, 1787-1865
  • Anthony Grooms The best books to teach about the civil rights movement Book cover of Silver Rights Book cover of Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers Book cover of Why We Can't Wait Book cover of Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology Book cover of We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
  • Jonathan Shandell The best books about Black culture and history in the Civil Rights era Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical Book cover of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy Book cover of Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance
  • Clara Silverstein The best memoirs from the front lines of standing up to racism Book cover of Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Book cover of Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South Book cover of Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism Book cover of Black Like Me Book cover of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
  • David J. Garrow The best books on the Black American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s Book cover of Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality Book cover of Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma Book cover of I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Book cover of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Book cover of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
  • Alison M. Parker The best biographies of Black women Book cover of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Book cover of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Book cover of Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
  • W. Jason Miller The best books about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his words Book cover of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Book cover of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources Book cover of If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement Book cover of The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age Book cover of The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America
  • Magdalena J. Zaborowska The best books on James Baldwin as a Black queer exile Book cover of James Baldwin: A Biography Book cover of No Name in the Street Book cover of Nothing Personal Book cover of The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin Book cover of Conversations with James Baldwin
  • Allison Lange The best new biographies of American suffragists Book cover of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Book cover of Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement Book cover of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell Book cover of Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America Book cover of Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
  • Paul Bass The best books on Black protest and government resistance Book cover of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Book cover of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther Book cover of The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Book cover of Black Politics / White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven Book cover of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  • Robert H. Mayer The best history books that actually engage and even excite young readers Book cover of The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Book cover of March: Book Three Book cover of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Book cover of Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Book cover of You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
  • Paul Lauter The best books on how we made change in the 1960's Book cover of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Book cover of On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail Book cover of Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America Book cover of Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War Book cover of Voice Lessons
  • Laura Freeman The best award-winning and brilliantly illustrated children’s books on African American history Book cover of The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo Book cover of Freedom in Congo Square Book cover of Let the Children March Book cover of The Undefeated Book cover of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
  • Paul Harvey The best books to get the full measure of Martin Luther King, Jr. Book cover of Parting the Waters Book cover of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Book cover of The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Book cover of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice Book cover of Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
  • Peter Guralnick The best biographical reading from a biographer Book cover of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer Book cover of Parting the Waters Book cover of The Fire Next Time Book cover of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost Book cover of Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
  • Mara Rockliff The best picture books about civil rights heroes (besides Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks) Book cover of Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down Book cover of Child of the Civil Rights Movement Book cover of Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins Book cover of Lizzie Demands a Seat! Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights Book cover of Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
  • Jonathan Lerner The best books about what drives people to adopt radical politics—and even embrace violence. Book cover of The Fire Next Time Book cover of Burger's Daughter Book cover of The Inheritance of Loss Book cover of The Monkey Wrench Gang Book cover of The White Album
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