Books like King: A Life

#1

Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • Civil Rights

#2

Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#3

King’s Dream

Eric J. Sundquist

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#4

Remembering Jim Crow African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South

William H. Chafe

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#5

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots A Black Doctor’s Civil Rights Struggle

Gilbert R. Mason

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#6

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#7

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Themes: Social Activists • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#8

Black in Selma The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut Jr.

J. L. Chestnut

Themes: Social Activists • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#9

The Colored Waiting Room Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Day Activist

Kevin Shird

Themes: Social Activists • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#10

Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Themes: Social Activists • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#11

I’m Still Here Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#12

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Nikki Brown

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#13

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi Methodists, Murder, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Neshoba County

Carol V. R. George

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#14

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#15

We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#16

Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C. Activism & Education in Logan Circle

Ida Jones

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#17

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#18

Path to Grace Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

Ethel Morgan Smith

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#19

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • Civil Rights

#20

Ali A Life

Jonathan Eig

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • African American & Black Studies

#21

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community

Marc Schneier

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#22

When Affirmative Action Was White An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth Century Amer

Ira Katznelson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#23

Medgar & Myrlie Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Social Activists • Civil Rights

#24

Double Victory How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II

Cheryl Mullenbach

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies