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Civil rights Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Derek R. King The best lesser-known Civil Rights books Book cover of For Us, the Living Book cover of The Civil War: An Illustrated History Book cover of An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 Book cover of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 Book cover of The South Strikes Back
  • 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
  • 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
  • Joseph A. Ranney The best books to understand the role that states have played in shaping American law and legal history Book cover of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality Book cover of The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890 Book cover of Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act Book cover of James Kent: A Study in Conservatism, 1763-1847 Book cover of Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions
  • Charles Postel The best books on the struggle for equality in the USA Book cover of Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression Book cover of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Daniel J. Solove The best books about privacy Book cover of Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies Book cover of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace Book cover of Why Privacy Matters Book cover of Uneasy Access Book cover of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
  • 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
  • Christy Mihaly The best children's picture books about how the U.S. Supreme Court works Book cover of Turning Pages: My Life Story Book cover of Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect Book cover of The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage Book cover of I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Book cover of The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy
  • Annette Bay Pimentel The best children’s books for young activists Book cover of The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist Book cover of The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial Book cover of If You're Going to a March Book cover of Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America Book cover of Each Kindness
  • Michael Freeman The best books for understanding the power and the limits of human rights Book cover of The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century Book cover of Making Sense of Human Rights Book cover of Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century Book cover of Human Rights and Their Limits Book cover of Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice
  • Thomas F. Jackson The best books on movements for racial and economic justice in the United States Book cover of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt Book cover of Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty Book cover of A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition Book cover of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Book cover of The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
  • Jamie J. Hagen The best books on queer movement building Book cover of Queer Migration Politics Book cover of Transnational LGBT Activism Book cover of But Some of Us Are Brave Book cover of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Book cover of The Revolution Starts at Home
  • 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
  • Doug McAdam The best books on the impact of race on American politics Book cover of Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Book cover of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • 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
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