The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life
and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. The King
Holiday honors the life and contributions of America’s greatest
champion of racial justice and equality, who led civil rights movement
that achieved historic reforms to help make a vibrant, multiracial nation,
united in justice, peace and reconciliation. We have compiled a bibliography
consisting of books, journal articles, and websites on Martin Luther King,
Jr., the civil rights movement and African American struggles for equality
even after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abernathy, Donzaleigh. Partners to
history: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the civil
rights movement, New York: Crown Publishers, 2003. Available
through Interlibrary
Loan.
Adams, Janus. Freedom days: 365 inspired
moments in civil rights history, New York: Wiley, 1998. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Ashmore, Harry S. Civil rights and
wrongs: a memoir of race and politics 1944-1994, New York :
Pantheon Books, 1994. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Barber, Lucy G. Marching on Washington:
the forging of an American political tradition, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2002. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Barbour, Floyd B. The Black Power
revolt: a collection of essays, Boston, P. Sargent [1968] E185.615
.B3r DISPLAY-LIB
Bayor, Ronald H. Race and ethnicity
in America: a concise history, New York: Columbia University
Press, c2003. E184.A1 R244 DISPLAY-LIB
Brooks, Roy L. Rethinking the American
race problem, Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990,
1992 printing.
E185.615 .B73 DISPLAY-LIB
Bullard, Sara. Free at last: a history
of the Civil Rights Movement and those who died in the struggle, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Bush, Rod. We are not what we seem
[electronic resource]: Black nationalism and class struggle in the American
century, New York: New York University Press, c1999 E185.61
.B98 1999eb
Carson, Clayborne. Civil rights chronicle:
the African-American struggle for freedom, Lincolnwood, Ill.:
Legacy, 2003. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Carson, Clayborne. The eyes on the
prize: civil rights reader: documents, speeches, and firsthand accounts
from the Black freedom struggle, 1954-1990, New York: Penguin
Books, 1991. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Carson, Josephine. Silent voices [electronic
resource] : an intimate study of southern black women during the civil
rights struggle, [S.l.]: E-reads, 2002. E185.61 .C3
2002eb
Cashman, Sean Dennis. African-Americans
and the quest for civil rights, 1900-1990, New York: New York
University Press, 1991. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Chappell, David L. A stone of hope:
prophetic religion and the death of Jim Crow, Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
E185.61 .C5435 DISPLAY-LIB
The civil rights movement [electronic
resource] edited by the editors of Salem Press, Pasadena, Calif.:
Salem Press, 2000. E185.61 .C6124 2000eb
Cochran, David Carroll. The color
of freedom [electronic resource]: race and contemporary American liberalism,
Albany: State University of New York Press, c1999. E185.615
.C634 1999eb
Collier-Thomas, Bettye & Franklin, V.
P. Sisters in the struggle: African American women in the civil
rights-black power movement, New York: New York University
Press, 2001. E185.61 .S615 DISPLAY-LIB
Collum, Danny Duncan. Black and white
together: the search for common ground, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis
Books, c1996.
E185.615 .C644 DISPLAY-LIB
Conti, Joseph G. & Stetson, Brad. Challenging
the civil rights establishment: profiles of a new Black vanguard,
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993. E185.615 .C663 DISPLAY-LIB
Cook, Robert. Sweet land of liberty?:
the African-American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth-century,
London ; New York : Longman, 1998. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Curry, Constance. Deep in our hearts:
nine white women in the freedom movement, Athens, GA :; University
of Georgia Press, 2000.
E185.98.A1 D44 DISPLAY-LIB
DeMott, Benjamin, The trouble with
friendship: why Americans can't think straight about race,
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. E185.615 .D46
DISPLAY-LIB
Dudley, William. The civil rights
movement: opposing viewpoints, San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven
Press, 1996. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Fairclough, Adam. Better day coming:
Blacks and equality, 1890-2000, New York: Viking, 2001. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the
courts: how a dedicated band of lawyers fought for the civil rights
revolution, New York: BasicBooks, 1994. Available at
DeKalb County Public Library
or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Greene, Richard & Brizel, Florie. Words
that shook the world: 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events,
New York: Prentice Hall, c2002. PN6122 .G75
DISPLAY-LIB
Hampton, Henry, Fayer, Steve & Flynn,
Sarah. Voices of freedom: an oral history of the civil rights
movement from the 1950s through the 1980s, New York: Bantam
Books, 1990. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Hansen, Drew D.The dream: Martin Luther
King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation, New York:
Ecco, 2003. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Harmon, Rod. American civil rights
leaders, Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2000. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Horton, James Oliver. Landmarks of
African American history, New York: Oxford University Press,
2004. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Johnson, Charles Richard & Adelman, Bob.
King: the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
New York: Viking Studio, 2000. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Joseph, Peniel E. The Black power
movement: rethinking the civil rights-Black power era, New
York: Routledge, 2006. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting 'til the
midnight hour: a narrative history of Black power in America,
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why we can't
wait, New York, Harper & Row [1964]. E185.61 .K54r
DISPLAY-LIB
Kosof, Anna. The civil rights movement
and its legacy, New York: Watts, 1989. Available at
DeKalb County Public Library
or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Le Blanc, Paul. Black liberation and
the American dream: the struggle for racial and economic justice: analysis,
strategy, readings, Amherst, N.Y: Humanity Books, 2003. Available
through Interlibrary
Loan.
Levy, Peter B. Let freedom ring: a
documentary history of the modern civil rights movement, New
York : Praeger, 1992. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Lewis, John & D'Orso, Michael. Walking
with the wind:a memoir of the movement, New York, NY: Simon
& Schuster, 1998. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Long, Worth W., Reagon, Bernice Johnson &
Shapiro, Linn. We'll never turn back: a photographic exhibit,
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Performing Arts, 1980. E185.61
.W43 DISPLAY-LIB
Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern
civil rights movement, Chapel Hill: Published for the Center
for Documentary Studies, Duke University, by the University of North
Carolina Press, 1992. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Meacham, Jon. Voices in our blood:
America's best on the civil rights movement, New York: Random
House, 2001. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Morris, Aldon D. The origins of the
civil rights movement : Black communities organizing for change,
New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1986, c1984 E185.61
.M845 DISPLAY-LIB
Myers, Samuel L. Civil rights and
race relations in the post Reagan-Bush era, Westport, Conn.:
Praeger, 1997. E185.615 .C583 DISPLAY-LIB
National Urban League. The state of
Black America 2005, [New York]: National Urban League, c1976-
E185.5 .N317 DISPLAY-LIB
Nieman, Donald G. Promises to keep:
African-Americans and the constitutional order, 1776 to the present,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. E185.61 .N5 DISPLAY-LIB
Payne, Charles M. I've got the light
of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle,
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995. E185.93.M6
P39
Pinkney, Alphonso The myth of Black
progress, Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1984, 1985 printing. E185.8 .P56 DISPLAY-LIB
Powledge, Fred. Free at last?: the
civil rights movement and the people who made it, Boston :
Little, Brown, 1991. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reporting civil rights, New
York: Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin
Putnam, c2003. E185.61 .R47
Salmond, John A. My mind set on freedom:
a history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968, Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 1997. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Serequeberhan, Tsenay. Our heritage
:the past in the present of African-American and African existence,
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Available
through Interlibrary
Loan.
Sitkoff, Harvard. The struggle for
Black equality, 1954-1980, New York: Hill and Wang, c1981.
E185.615 .S57 DISPLAY-LIB
Smith, Robert Charles. Racism in the
post-civil rights era: now you see it, now you don't, Albany:
State University of New York Press, c1995. E185.615 .S5825
DISPLAY-LIB
Steele, Shelby. A dream deferred:
the second betrayal of Black freedom in America, New York,
NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1998.
E185.615 .S7234 DISPLAY-LIB
Stewart, Ronnie & McDuffie, Roy L. Black
leadership conference: a re-creation of the leadership dilemma blacks
faced following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.,
Lakeside, CA : DBA Interact, 1992. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Swift, Jeannine. Dream and reality:
the modern Black struggle for freedom and equality, New York:
Greenwood Press, 1991. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. "Why
are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and
other conversations about race, New York: BasicBooks, c2003.
E185.625 .T38 DISPLAY-LIB
Verney, Kevern, Black civil rights
in America, London; New York: Routledge, 2000 (2001 printing).
E185.61 .V475 DISPLAY-LIB
Weber, Michael. Causes and consequences
of the African-American civil rights movement, Austin, Tex.:
Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom bound: a
history of America's civil rights movement, New York: Norton,
1990. E185.61 .W394 DISPLAY-LIB
Williams, Juan. My soul looks back
in wonder: voices of the civil rights experience, New York:
AARP/Sterling, 2004. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library or through Interlibrary
Loan.
Young, Andrew. An easy burden: the
civil rights movement and the transformation of America, New
York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. E840.8.Y64 A3 DISPLAY-LIB
Aeschliman, M. D. Enduring
documents and public doctrines: Martin Luther King's "Letter from
Birmingham Jail" after forty years. Journal of Education, 2005,
186 (1) 
Anonymous. America,
38 years later. Call & Post, Cleveland, Ohio: Apr 6-Apr
12, 2006, 90 (14)
Burrow, Rufus. The
definitive biography of King?: a review essay. Encounter,
Indianapolis: Summer 2006, 67 (3)
Carson, Clayborne. Paradoxes
of King historiography. Magazine of History, Bloomington:
Jan 2005, 19 (1)
Carson, Carlborn. The
unfinished dialogue of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. OAH
Magazine of History, Jan2005, 19 (1)
Dickerson, Jeff. Memorializing
the struggle. The Atlanta Tribune, Roswell: Nov 2006, 20
(8)
Drew D. Hansen. King's
dreams for demise of racism, poverty continue today.
USA Today, 08/27/2003
Gates, Henry Louis. The
two nations of Black America. The Brookings Review, Washington:
Spring 1998, 16 (2)
Gibbs, Joan P.Civil
rights. Social Policy, Spring98, 28 (3)
Hefner, Keith. Youth
rights. Social Policy, Spring98, 28 (3)
Kazin, Michael. Fierce
memories, fresh histories. Magazine of History, Bloomington:
Oct 2006, 20 (5)
Kelly, Robert & Cook, Erin.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X: a common solution. OAH
Magazine of History, Jan2005, 19 (1)
Kinder, Donald R. Still
divided by color. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
Arlington: Dec 1998, 34 (14)
Lawson, Steven F.
Freedom then, freedom now: The historiography of the Civil Rights Movement
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.
The American Historical Review, Washington: Apr 1991, 96 (2)
Ling, Peter.
Martin Luther King's half-forgotten dream. (cover story). History
Today, Apr98, 48 (4)
Ling, Peter. We
shall overcome. History Review, Mar2003, 45
Malveaux, Julianne. King's
legacy lives on -- in Venezuela. USA Today, 01/16/2004
Marklein, Mary Beth. Affirmative
action faces another test. USA Today, 03/26/2003
Marsh, Charles. The
civil rights movement as theological drama--interpretation and application.
Modern Theology, Oxford: Apr 2002, 18 (2)
Millner, D.
20 years then and now--1970 to 1990. Black Collegian, Jan/Feb91,
21 (3)
Morial, Marc H. Wanted:
drum majors for the 21st century's civil rights movement. The
Tennessee Tribune, Nashville, Tenn.: Aug 17, 2006, 17 (27)
Ognibene, Elaine R.
Civil rights still "a dream deferred". Peace Review,
Palo Alto: Jun 2001, 13 (2)
Platt, Jody.
Breaking down barriers. NCJW Journal, New York: Jan 31,
1999, 21 (4)
Platt, Gerald M. & Fraser, Michael R.
Race
and gender discourse strategies: creating solidarity and framing the
Civil Rights movement Social Problems, Berkeley: May 1998,
45 ( 2) 
Serrano, Jose. Martin
Luther King Jr.: his legacy. New York Amsterdam News, 01/11/2001,
92 (2)
Schaeffer, Pamela. A
dream dishonored after 30 years. National Catholic Reporter,
01/15/99, 35
Williams, Juan. Where
is the next Martin Luther King, Jr.?. Miami Times, Miami,
Fla.: Sep 27-Oct 3, 2006, 84, (3)
