174 Collage of Books in the Political Science / Civil Rights Category — View a list.

Click for more detail about First, Best: Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today’s Civil Rights Movement by Steven L. Reed
Click for more detail about Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics by Michael G. Long
Click for more detail about We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle
Click for more detail about Reparations! by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Click for more detail about Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson
Click for more detail about Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate by Thomas Aiello
Click for more detail about The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History by rian Jones
Click for more detail about The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about Game: An Autobiography by Grant Hill
Click for more detail about His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Click for more detail about Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan by Eric Holder
Click for more detail about The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - With a New Introduction by the Author by Randall Kennedy
Click for more detail about How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
Click for more detail about Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America by Al Sharpton
Click for more detail about Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI by Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones
Click for more detail about Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America by Renee K. Harrison
Click for more detail about Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America by Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston
Click for more detail about Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress: 1946-1956 by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America by Ellis Cose
Click for more detail about The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
Click for more detail about My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers
Click for more detail about There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman
Click for more detail about The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition by C.T. Vivian
Click for more detail about The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker
Click for more detail about Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Julian Bond
Click for more detail about She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power - 1619 to 1969 by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Click for more detail about Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Click for more detail about The Substance Of Hope: Barack Obama And The Paradox Of Progress by William Jelani Cobb
Click for more detail about The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway
Click for more detail about Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
Click for more detail about Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The Aclu’s 100-Year Fight for Rights in America by Ellis Cose
Click for more detail about In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore
Click for more detail about My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
Click for more detail about The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line by José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown
Click for more detail about Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction by Ira Katznelson
Click for more detail about Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 by Julian Bond
Click for more detail about Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field by Howard Bryant
Click for more detail about So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Click for more detail about How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Click for more detail about How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon
Click for more detail about The Huey P. Newton Reader, 2nd Edtion by Huey P. Newton
Click for more detail about It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen
Click for more detail about The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement by Thomas Aiello
Click for more detail about We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump’s War on Civil Rights by Juan Williams
Click for more detail about One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Click for more detail about Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
Click for more detail about The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell
Click for more detail about Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
Click for more detail about The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement by Kevin Shird
Click for more detail about A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
Click for more detail about The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard N. Moore
Click for more detail about A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Matt Meyer and déqui kioni-sadiki
Click for more detail about Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box by Angela P. Dodson
Click for more detail about Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Barbara Ransby
Click for more detail about Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James Mcgrath Morris
Click for more detail about Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights by Dick Lehr
Click for more detail about The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland by Robyn C. Spencer
Click for more detail about They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
Click for more detail about Black Power 50 by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
Click for more detail about Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword by David K. Shipler
Click for more detail about From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Click for more detail about Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
Click for more detail about Civil Rights For Beginners by Paul Von Blum
Click for more detail about This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Click for more detail about Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by David J. Garrow
Click for more detail about The Complete Muhammad Ali by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media) by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Click for more detail about Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy by Bruce Watson
Click for more detail about Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America by Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen
Click for more detail about Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
Click for more detail about Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America by David K. Shipler
Click for more detail about March Book Two by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Click for more detail about Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 by Carol Anderson
Click for more detail about Blackballed: The Black Vote And Us Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
Click for more detail about Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley
Click for more detail about Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship by Ira Katznelson
Click for more detail about Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason Riley
Click for more detail about Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin
Click for more detail about Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black by James E. Clyburn
Click for more detail about Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) by Saladin Ambar
Click for more detail about The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964 by Herb Boyd
Click for more detail about Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle by Gerald Horne
Click for more detail about The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream by Gary Younge
Click for more detail about Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams
Click for more detail about The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
Click for more detail about Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream by Christina M. Greer
Click for more detail about Dear Sir, I Intend To Burn Your Book: An Anatomy Of A Book Burning (Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture) by Lawrence Hill
Click for more detail about Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Click for more detail about The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
Click for more detail about “ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Race-Baiter: How The Media Wields Dangerous Words To Divide A Nation by Eric Deggans
Click for more detail about Message to the Movement (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Click for more detail about The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis
Click for more detail about The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 by Ibram H. Rogers
Click for more detail about The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties by David K. Shipler
Click for more detail about MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner
Click for more detail about Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography by Martin A. Berger
Click for more detail about Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation by Walter Mosley
Click for more detail about Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Eddie Conway
Click for more detail about A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life by Deval Patrick
Click for more detail about Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Click for more detail about Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today by Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs
Click for more detail about Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identity by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
Click for more detail about Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC by Karen Chilton
Click for more detail about Colorblind: The Rise Of Post-Racial Politics And The Retreat From Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media) by Tim Wise
Click for more detail about Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston Baker Jr.
Click for more detail about Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James Jr.
Click for more detail about Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black by D.T. Pollard
Click for more detail about On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
Click for more detail about Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Click for more detail about Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) by Amiri Baraka
Click for more detail about The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters by Irwin A Tang
Click for more detail about Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr
Click for more detail about Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture
Click for more detail about Beyond Glory: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling, And A World On The Brink by David Margolick
Click for more detail about The Black Power Movement: Rethinking The Civil Rights-Black Power Era by Peniel E. Joseph
Click for more detail about African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids by Randal Maurice Jelks
Click for more detail about Civil Rights Childhood by Jordana Y. Shakoor
Click for more detail about Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent by Thomas Glave
Click for more detail about All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown V. Board of Education by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Click for more detail about Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
Click for more detail about Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) by Barbara Ransby
Click for more detail about Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy B. Tyson
Click for more detail about Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past, A Memoir by W. Ralph Eubanks
Click for more detail about America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South by Glenn Feldman and Patricia Sullivan
Click for more detail about Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due
Click for more detail about The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life by Manning Marable
Click for more detail about I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Rh Trade Pbk) by Jon Meacham
Click for more detail about Witnessing and Testifying by Rosetta E. Ross
Click for more detail about Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works by Howard Zinn
Click for more detail about Tough Notes: A Healing Call For Creating Exceptional Black Men by Haki Madhubuti
Click for more detail about Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn’t Work for Blacks by Bruce Wright
Click for more detail about Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen
Click for more detail about Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson
Click for more detail about A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis
Click for more detail about Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen
Click for more detail about Black Politics / White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven by Yohuru Williams
Click for more detail about Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights by David Margolick
Click for more detail about I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition by Peter Nabokov
Click for more detail about In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Click for more detail about What’s Going On by Nathan McCall
Click for more detail about Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised) by Janus Adams
Click for more detail about Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement by Townsend Davis
Click for more detail about David Walker’s Appeal by David Walker
Click for more detail about Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Freedom: Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson
Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley) by Malcolm X
Click for more detail about Malcolm X Speaks (Cloth) by Malcolm X
Click for more detail about The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
Click for more detail about Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? by Thomas Sowell
Click for more detail about FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr: From “Solo” to Memphis by David J. Garrow
Click for more detail about Pioneers in Protest by Lerone Bennett