Books like King’s Dream

#1

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#2

The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

Themes: Minority Studies • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#3

We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#4

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

Joshua Bloom

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#5

The Barn The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism

Wright Thompson

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

#6

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Nikki Brown

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

#7

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

William Warren Rogers

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

#8

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

Themes: Minority Studies • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#9

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

#10

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

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

#11

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: Minority Studies • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#12

Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

Amina Hassan

Themes: Minority Studies • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#13

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

Gilbert R. Mason

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

#14

What Would Martin Say?

Clarence B. Jones

Themes: Minority Studies • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

#15

Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson History, Memory, and Civic Culture

Jan Lewis

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies

#16

Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South

Blain Roberts

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#17

Tulsa, 1921 Reporting a Massacre

Randy Krehbiel

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#18

The Color of Our Shame Race and Justice in Our Time

Christopher J. Lebron

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#19

American Pogrom The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics

Charles L. Lumpkins

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies

#20

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#21

Dispatches from the Race War

Tim Wise

Themes: Minority Studies • Race & Ethnic Relations • Civil Rights

#22

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Beth Tompkins Bates

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#23

Writing History from the Margins African Americans and the Quest for Freedom

Claire Parfait

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

#24

My Remarkable Journey A Memoir

Katherine G. Johnson

Themes: Race & Ethnic Relations • African American & Black Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional