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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

By Barbara Ransby ,

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Little Brother
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Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow ,

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Why We Can't Wait
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Why We Can't Wait

By Martin Luther King, Jr. ,

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Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
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Dividing Lines

By J. Mills Thornton ,

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton

By Jeffrey Haas ,

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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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When Affirmative Action Was White

By Ira Katznelson ,

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John Brown
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John Brown

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer
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If White Kids Die

By Dick J. Reavis ,

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From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
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From Civil Rights to Human Rights

By Thomas F. Jackson ,

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An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
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An Easy Burden

By Andrew Young ,

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Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
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Vernon Can Read!

By Vernon Jordan Jr. , Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

By Peniel E. Joseph ,

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Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
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Unequal Freedom

By Evelyn Nakano Glenn ,

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Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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Black Is a Country

By Nikhil Pal Singh ,

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement

By Paula Young Shelton , Raul Colón (illustrator) ,

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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
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An American Insurrection

By William Doyle ,

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Making Sense of Human Rights
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Making Sense of Human Rights

By James Nickel ,

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Human Rights and Their Limits
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Human Rights and Their Limits

By Wiktor Osiatyński ,

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Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology
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Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement

By Margaret Earley Whitt ,

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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
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Bloody Lowndes

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries ,

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The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice
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The Logic of Care

By Annemarie Mol ,

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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
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Let It Shine

By Andrea Davis Pinkney ,

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Let Justice Roll Down
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Let Justice Roll Down

By John M. Perkins ,

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On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
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On the Road to Freedom

By Charles E. Cobb Jr. ,

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Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South
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Grace Matters

By Chris P. Rice ,

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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

By Michael J. Klarman ,

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Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
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Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability

By Paul K. Longmore ,

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Fools Rush In
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Fools Rush In

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Life is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98
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Life is So Good

By George Dawson , Richard Glaubman ,

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Covering
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Covering

By Kenji Yoshino ,

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