Civil rights workers -- Biography
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Civil rights workers -- Biography
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Civil rights workers
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- Ahead of her time, Abby Kelley and the politics of anti- slavery, by Dorothy Sterling
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Marshall Frady
- Bearing the cross, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, David J. Garrow
- Open wide the freedom gates, a memoir, Dorothy Height ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou
- Ready from within, Septima Clark and the civil rights movement, edited with an introduction by Cynthia Stokes Brown
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American reform, 1880-1930, Patricia A. Schechter
- The walls came tumbling down, Mary White Ovington
- Maya Angelou, a glorious celebration, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler, and Richard A. Long ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- Charleston's black shining prince, James Campbell and the evolution of African American education, by Erica Nicole Veal
- Ralph David Abernathy, by Catherine Reef
- Across that bridge, life lessons and a vision for change, John Lewis ; with Brenda Jones
- Walk with me, a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, Kate Clifford Larson
- A man called White, the autobiography of Walter White
- James Weldon Johnson, Black leader, Black voice, Eugene Levy
- Redemption, Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours, Joseph Rosenbloom
- The magnificent Mays, a biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays, John Herbert Roper, Sr
- The children, David Halberstam
- To keep the waters troubled, the life of Ida B. Wells, agitator, by Linda O. McMurry
- My life, my love, my legacy, by Coretta Scott King ; as told to the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds
- Dreams die hard, David Harris
- An easy burden, the civil rights movement and the transformation of America, Andrew Young
- Freedom facts and firsts, 400 years of the African American civil rights experience, Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn, editors ; [foreword by Diane Nash]
- Ella Baker, a leader behind the scenes, by Shyrlee Dallard ; with an introduction by Andrew Young
- Coretta Scott King, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
- Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist, James Haskins
- This little light of mine, the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, Kay Mills
- James Baldwin, voice from Harlem, Ted Gottfried
- To the mountaintop, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968, Stewart Burns
- Partners to history, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the civil rights movement, by Donzaleigh Abernathy ; foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr
- Answering the call, an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America, Nathaniel R. Jones ; with a foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Jesse Jackson & the politics of race, Thomas H. Landess, Richard M. Quinn ; [foreword by Ralph Abernathy]
- Children of the movement, the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families, John Blake
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Peter J. Ling
- James Baldwin, Randall Kenan ; [general editor], Martin B. Duberman
- Walking with the wind, a memoir of the movement, John Lewis with Michael D'Orso
- Desert rose, the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King, Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King
- Ida, a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching, Paula J. Giddings
- Benjamin Elijah Mays, schoolmaster of the movement, a biography, Randal Maurice Jelks
- Shakedown!, exposing the real Jesse Jackson, Kenneth R. Timmerman
- American civil rights, biographies, Phillis Engelbert ; Betz Des Chenes, editor
- Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement, a radical democratic vision, Barbara Ransby
- Just another southern town, Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital, Joan Quigley
- Thurgood Marshall, American Revolutionary, Juan Williams
- Outside the magic circle, the autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr, edited by Hollinger F. Barnard ; with a foreword by Studs Terkel
- My soul looks back in wonder, voices of the civil rights experience, Juan Williams ; foreword, David Halberstam ; afterword, Marian Wright Edelman
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