Honoring MLK

Updated January 14, 2026
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Becoming King
Jackson, Troy
Ebook
This biography sheds new light on King's development as a civil rights leader in Montgomery among activists such as Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, and others.   In Becoming King, Troy Jackson demonstrates how Martin Luther King's early years as a pastor and...
The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Joseph, Peniel E.
Paper Book
This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic...
A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
Theoharis, Jeanne
Paper Book
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement...

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