Honoring MLK

Updated January 14, 2026
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The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Paper Book
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world --and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The...
Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oates, Stephen B.
Paper Book
Becoming King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader
Jackson, Troy
Paper Book
"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...
Waking from the dream : the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chappell, David L.
Paper Book
The author of A Stone of Hope, called "one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement" by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King's assassination--and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil...
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...
Shattered dreams, infinite hope : a tragic vision of the civil rights movement
Terry, Brandon M.
Ebook
A New York Times Notable Book A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation. We are...
A more beautiful and terrible history The uses and misuses of civil rights history.
Theoharis, Jeanne.
Ebook
This "bracing corrective to national mythology" around the American civil rights movement "shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand" (New York Times). "Theoharis's view of history is expansive" as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of...

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