Honoring MLK

Updated January 14, 2026
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The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Paper Book
Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. In an early...
Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oates, Stephen B.
Paper Book
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America's history.
Becoming King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader
Jackson, Troy
Ebook
"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities."--Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher--this...
The measure of a man
Luther King, Martin
Ebook
First published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism. Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive. "AT THE first National Conference...
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68
Branch, Taylor.
Paper Book
'At Canaan's Edge' chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and preserves the...
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...
Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Hampton, Henry
Paper Book
Based on the archives used in the prize-winning PBS television series, this unique companion to Eyes on the Prize II is the only oral history of America's civil rights movement from 1954 to the present. The new series will air early this year.

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