Farris, Christine King. March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.
———. Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Life and Dream. Lexington: Silver Burdett Ginn, 1986.
———. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Watkins, Angela Farris. My Uncle Martin’s Big Heart. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2010.
———. My Uncle Martin’s Words for America: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Niece Tells How He Made a Difference. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2011.
WORKS ABOUT KING (GENERAL)
Bagley, Edythe Scott, with Joe Hilley. Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929–1968. Chicago: Johnson Publishing, 1964. 4th revised edition, 1976.
Bishop, Jim. In the Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Burns, Stewart. To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Mission to Save America: 1955–1968. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.
Cone, James H. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1991.
Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Fairclough, Adam. Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life. New York: Penguin Group, 2002.
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986.
Jackson, Thomas F. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Jackson, Troy. Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008.
Johnson, Charles, and Bob Adelman. King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Viking Studio, 2000.
King: A Filmed Record … From Montgomery to Memphis. 1970 documentary film converted to DVD by Kino Lorber Films, 2013. 185 minutes. (2 DVDs)
Lentz, Richard. Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Lewis, David L. King: A Critical Biography. New York: Praeger, 1970. Expanded 3rd edition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Life magazine, eds. Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King: His Life and Crusade in Pictures. New York: Life Magazine, 2008.
Lincoln, C. Eric, ed. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile. New York: Hill and Wang, 1970.
Lischer, Richard. The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Global Freedom Struggle, Encyclopedia (online): http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php /encyclopedia/encyclopedia_contents
Miller, Keith. Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Miller, William. Martin Luther King Jr.: His Life, Martyrdom, and Meaning for the World. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968.
Oates, Stephen. Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Pearson, Hugh. When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.
Reddick, Lawrence D. Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959.
Reider, Jonathan. The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Sunnemark, Fredrik. Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Witherspoon, William Roger. Martin Luther King, Jr.: To the Mountaintop. Garden City: Doubleday, 1985.
KING BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Fisher, William H., comp. Free at Last: A Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
Pyatt, Sherman E., comp. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
MAJOR KING INSTITUTIONS ONLINE
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia: http://www.thekingcenter.org/
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/. This site includes the King Papers Project: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu /king-papers/about-papers-project
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Site, Atlanta, Georgia (birth home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and the gravesite at the King Center): http://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm
National Civil Rights Museum, at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (INDIVIDUAL FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS BY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS)
Abernathy, Ralph David. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Albert, Peter J. and Ronald Hoffman, eds. We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: Pantheon Books (in cooperation with the United States Capitol Historical Society), 1990.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Dial Press, 1963.
———. No Name in the Street. New York: Dial Press, 1972.
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir. New York: David MacKay Company, 1962.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. New York: Washington Square Press, 1994.
Beifuss, Joan Turner. At the River I Stand: Memphis, the 1968 Strike, and Martin Luther King. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1989.
Burns, Stewart, ed. Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Carson, Clayborne. Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
———. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Carson, Clayborne; David J. Garrow; Gerald Gill; Vincent Harding; and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.
Chestnut, J. L., Jr. and Julia Cass. Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990.
Clayton, Xernova. I’ve Been Marching All the Time: An Autobiography. Athens: Longstreet Press, 1991.
Crawford, Vicki L., Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941–1965. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990.
Evers, Mrs. Medgar (Myrlie Evers-Williams), with William Peters. For Us, the Living. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.
Farmer, James. Lay Bare My Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Arbor House, 1985.
Fields, Uriah J. Inside the Montgomery Bus Boycott: My Personal Story. Baltimore: America House, 2002.
Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries: A Personal Account. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Gilliard, Deric A. Living in the Shadow of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and “Sheroes” Who Marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. Decatur: Gilliard Communications, 2002.
Gray, Fred D. Bus Ride to Freedom: The Life and Works of Fred Gray. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1995.
Hampton, Henry, Steve Faver, and Sarah Flynn, comps. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 19
90.
Hansberry, Lorraine. The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.
Harding, Vincent. Hope and History: Why We Must Share the History of the Movement. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1990.
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold. The Trumpet Sounds: A Memoir of Negro Leadership. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
Holsaert, Faith S.; Martha Prescod; Norman Noonan; Judy Richardson; Betty Garman Robinson; Jean Smith Young; and Dorothy M. Zellner, eds. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by the Women in SNCC. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Holt, Len. The Summer That Didn’t End. New York: William Morrow, 1965.
Hughes, Langston. Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1962.
Jackson, Jesse, and Elaine Landau. Black in America: A Fight for Freedom. New York: J. Messer, 1973.
Jones, Clarence, and Stuart Connelly. Behind the Dream: The Making of a Speech That Transformed a Nation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
King, Mary. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New York: William Morrow, 1987.
Levine, Ellen, ed. Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993.
Lewis, John, and Andrew Aydin. March. (Books One, Two, and Three). Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2013, 2015, 2016.
Lewis, John, and Michael D’Orso. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Mays, Benjamin. Born to Rebel: An Autobiography. New York: Scribner, 1971.
McKissick, Floyd B. Three-Fifths of a Man. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Meredith, James. A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America. New York: Atria Books, 2012.
Meredith, James, and William Doyle. Three Years in Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966.
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South. New York: Dial Press, 1968.
Parks, Rosa, and Jim Haskins. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992.
Powers, Georgia Davis. I Shared the Dream: The Pride, Passion and Politics of the First Black Woman Senator from Kentucky. Far Hills: New Horizon Press, 1995.
Raines, Howell, ed. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Reprint edition of My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Edited by David J. Garrow. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Rustin, Bayard. Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Saunders, Doris E., ed. The Day They Marched. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1963.
Schulke, Flip. He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
Schulke, Flip, and Penelope Ortner McPhee. King Remembered: The Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Words and Pictures. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.
Sellers, Cleveland, and Robert Terrell. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
Webb, Sheyann, and Rachel West Nelson (as told to Frank Sikora). Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
Wexler, Sanford, ed. An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Facts on File, 1993.
Wilkins, Roy, and Tom Mathews. Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.
Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Young Jr., Whitney M. To Be Equal. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (GENERAL)
Abernathy, Donzaleigh. Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
———. Bayard Rustin: Troubles I’ve Seen: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bass, S. Jonathan. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Berger, Maurice. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Blake, John. 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. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004.
Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
———. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
———. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
———. The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. (abridged version of the trilogy)
Burner, Eric. And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi. New York: New York University Press, 1994.
Dickerson, Dennis C. Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young, Jr. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Dorman, Michael. We Shall Overcome: A Reporter’s Eyewitness Account of the Year of Racial Strife and Triumph. New York: Delacorte Press, 1964.
Eagles, Charles W., ed. The Civil Rights Movement in America. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986.
Else, Jon. True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Viking, 2017. Book to accompany PBS Video, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement, Blackside, Inc., 2006. (Seven volume DVD series).
Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference & Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia, 1987.
Garrow, David J., ed. We Shall Overcome: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. 3 volumes. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1989.
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. New York: Wiley, 1998.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Random House, 1998.
Hogan, Wesley C. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954–68. New York: Abbeville, Press, 1996.
Kirk, John A. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Levy, Peter B. The Civil Rights Movement. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Manis, Andrew M. A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climact
ic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black American, 1943–1982. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
Marsh, Charles. God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Meacham, Jon, ed. Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Random House, 2001.
Meier, August, and Elliott Rudwick. CORE: A Study of the Civil Rights Movement, 1942–1968. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
Meier, August, John Bracey, Jr. and Elliot Rudwick, eds. Black Protest in the Sixties. New York: Markus Wiener, Publishers, 1991.
Morgan, Iwan, and Philip Davies, eds. From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2012.
Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press, 1984.
Moye, J. Todd. Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013.
Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Oppenheimer, Martin. The Sit-in Movement of 1960. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1989.
Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Powledge, Fred. Free at Last?: The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.
Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Romano, Renee C., and Leigh Raiford, eds. The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Scanlon, Jennifer. Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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