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1	Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. more books like this by Doreen Rappaport add to wishlist This definitive picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose dream changed America--and the world--forever. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson more books like this by Kenneth R Timmerman add to wishlist This expose-like critique of Jesse Jackson's life and career is by a conservative journalist who traces what he sees as Jackson's pattern of lying, opportunism, questionable funding practices, and character flaws. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights more books like this by Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due add to wishlist Novelist Tananarive Due and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, an activist in the 1960s, combine to produce this memoir of the civil rights movement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop more books like this by Harvard Sitkoff add to wishlist Might Martin Luther King, Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? By telling the Civil Rights leader's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Harvard Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| SVS
5	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice more books like this by Phillip Hoose add to wishlist ""When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin" On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. ... see all copies from $13.59! new only from $13.59! \| SVS
6	On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail more books like this by Charles E Cobb, Jr., Charles E Cobb Jr add to wishlist Through firsthand interviews, maps, photographs, and sidebars, award-winning journalist and 1960's activist Charles E. Cobb Jr. conducts a pilgrimage through the heart of the Civil Rights era. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Callus on My Soul: A Memoir more books like this by Dick Gregory, Shelia P Moses add to wishlist A comedian, actor, civil rights activity and nutrition guru, Gregory is renowned for his biting satire. Now, more than 30 years after his bestselling book "Nigger, " Gregory has put his provocative life story down on paper, recounting his unique experience and discussing a host of other luminaries--from Rosa Parks to Hugh Hefner. 25 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Race and Remembrance: A Memoir more books like this by Arthur L Johnson add to wishlist This is a memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson. "Race and Remembrance" tells the remarkable life story of Arthur L. Johnson, a Detroit civil rights and community leader, educator, and administrator whose career spans much of the last century. In his own words, Johnson takes readers through the arc of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Martin Luther King more books like this by Alan C McLean add to wishlist The "Factfiles" are non-fiction readers for all ages, featuring a wide range of topics such as famous cities, sport, science, the environment and the media. This title, at stage 3 of the course, looks at the life of Martin Luther King. see all copies from $5.14! new only from $10.32!
10	W.E.B. Du Bois more books like this by Tonya Bolden add to wishlist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, perhaps best known for his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk and as the founding editor of the NAACPas groundbreaking magazine The Crisis, was ever a soul in motion for justice. Whether he was protesting Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in the Deep South, advocating for the end of European Colonialism, or ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $4.31! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer more books like this by Christopher Myers Asch add to wishlist This elegant work intertwines the life histories of a staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis as they come to confront each other on the national political stage at the height of the civil rights struggle. Illustrated. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement more books like this by Thomas C Dent, Tom Dent add to wishlist More than forty years after the beginnings of the civil rights movement, one question still lingers: What significant changes, if any, have resulted from its efforts? In search of the answer, author Tom Dent takes us on a unique journey through the contemporary South, revisiting the places where protesters and supporters took their stands for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Beyond the Limbo Silence more books like this by Elizabeth Nunez add to wishlist In her third novel, Nunez weaves a personal story into the broader tapestry of political history, in the story of 21-year-old Sara Edgehill, who leaves her native Trinidad in 1963 to attend college in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust more books like this by Mary Stanton add to wishlist The historic account of how a determined white postal worker became one of the earliest martyrs in the civil rights movement is told here through interviews and newspaper reports. 14 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	King more books like this by Ho Che Anderson add to wishlist Ho Che Anderson's long-awaited sequel to the graphic novel biography of the life and career of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ultimately traces the civil rights leader's life from his birth to assassination. Anderson's successful use of graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to works by Art Spiegelman and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Meteor in the Madhouse more books like this by Leon Forrest, Marianne Forrest (Foreword by), John G Cawelti (Editor) add to wishlist Leon Forrest (1937-1997) is a major figure in African-American literature, and these five thematically intertwined novellas were among the last works he wrote. In them, a playwright named Joubert Jones tells stories of his past life in the American South before he and his family migrated north--all taking place in the month of November. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power more books like this by David T Beito, Linda Royster Beito add to wishlist In whatever role he chose - civil rights leader, wealthy entrepreneur, or unconventional surgeon - Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard (1908-76) was always close to controversy. One of the leading renaissance men of twentieth century black history, Howard successfully organized a grassroots boycott against Jim Crow in the 1950s. Well known for his ... see all copies from $27.25! new only from $27.25! \| SVS
18 view cover	Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement more books like this by Ann Bausum add to wishlist Examining the lives of two Nashvillians--one white and one black--in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of the nation's past, Bausum shows how a common interest in justice enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights more books like this by Robert L Carter, John Hope Franklin (Preface by) add to wishlist As chief legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall and, later, as General Counsel to the NAACP, Robert L. Carter played a central role in crafting the legal strategy for the pivotal cases of the civil rights era-arguing and winning over twenty pivotal cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board, with Thurgood Marshall. A Matter of Law is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Martin Luther King more books like this by Harry Harmer add to wishlist This short biography traces the life of Martin Luther King from his birth in Atlanta, through his ministry in Alabama, his involvement with the Montgomery Improvement Association, and his leading role in the Civil Rights Movement to the death which made him its martyr. The title looks at the 1963 Peace March to the Lincoln Memorial, and tells of ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $3.45! \| SVS
21 view cover	Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience more books like this by Jessie Carney Smith add to wishlist Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom. Coverage includes information on such mainstay figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks, but also delves into how lesser known ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.49! \| SVS
22 view cover	White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP more books like this by Kenneth Robert Janken add to wishlist White is portrayed here in his full complexity, a man whose physical appearance enabled him to negotiate two different worlds. Deeply researched and documented, this biography provides a vantage point from which to view the leading political and cultural figures of his time and a glimpse into the world of civil rights politics and activism in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	King Volume 3 more books like this by Ho Che Anderson add to wishlist -Major review attention - Advance reading copies see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
24 view cover	Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950 more books like this by Charles M Payne (Editor), Adam Green (Editor) add to wishlist The story of the civil rights movement is well-known, popularized by both the media and the academy. Yet the version of the story recounted time and again by both history books and PBS documentaries is a simplified one, reduced to an inspirational but ultimately facile narrative framed around Dr. King, the Kennedys, and the redemptive days of ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $14.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March more books like this by Black Issues in Higher Education (Editor), Dara N Byrne, PH.D. add to wishlist This title shows why a 56-mile walk for freedom in 1965 still challenges America today. The voting rights act of 1965 was the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, forever changing politics in America. Now, for the first time, voices of the era, along with some of today's most influential writers, scholars, and social activists, ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $8.44! \| first editions \| SVS

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