Civil Rights Movement Resources
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain
shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will
be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.
-Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963
Every February, the U.S. honors the contributions and sacrifices of African Americans who have helped shape the nation. In celebration of Black History Month, the Libraries offer a selection of books about the Civil Rights Movement.
Diane Andrews Henningfeld
A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Andrew M. Manis
I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
William R. Ferris
God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Charles Marsh
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis that Shocked the Nation
Elizabeth Jacoway
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson (Ed.)
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle
Michael K. Honey
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
David Margolick
Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable
