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  • This Light of Ours

    Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

    This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement—primarily within ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • This Light of Ours

    Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

    This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Children

    "The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before" in this history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( Wall Street Journal ).The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam's brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King: A Life

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 YearsA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Freedom Summer

    The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

    by Bruce Watson ...
    A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history.In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

    How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

    Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal."Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    by Juan Williams ...
    Series series Eyes on the Prize
    Eyes on the Prize traces the movement from the landmark Brown v*. the Board of Education* case in 1954 to the march on Selma and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed PBS series. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Speech

    The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream

    by Gary Younge ...
    In this "slim but powerful book," the award-winning journalist shares the dramatic story surrounding MLK's most famous speech and its importance today ( Boston Globe).On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered the most iconic speech of the civil rights movement. In The Speech, Gary Younge explains why King's "I Have ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom in the Family

    A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

    Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Waging a Good War

    A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

    #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.“Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting.” ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Run

    Book One

    Run**, Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is an essential graphic novel, whether for the home or the classroom. First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind** March.This follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series March is the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refinery Town

    Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City

    by Steve Early ...
    The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their communityWith a foreword by Bernie SandersHome to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of 100,000 suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public ... Read more

    $13.99 USD