Race and Justice: Biographies

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch

Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by S. Jonathan Bass

King Came Preaching: The Pulpit Power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mervyn A. Warren

The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America, upd. ed. by Richard Lischer

The Word of the Lord Is upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jonathan Rieder

Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston

Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church by Edward Gilbreath

Black Women Abolitionists : A Study in Activism, 1828-1860 by Shirley J. Yee

Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography by Ralph D. Abernathy

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (online) by Barbara Ransby

The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century by W.E.B. DuBois

The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century (online) by W.E.B. DuBois

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (online) by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass; ed by David Blight

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass; Angela Y. Davis, ed.

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom (online) by Frederick Douglass

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History by Frederick Douglass

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History (online) by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement by James Farmer

An Oral History with Fannie Lou Hamer (online) by Fannie Lou Hamer

Autobiography: The Big Sea (online) by Langston Hughes

Autobiography: The Big Sea (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, v. 13) by Langston Hughes

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (online) by John Lewis

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis; Michael D'Orso

Malcolm X: A Biography by A. B. Assensoh; Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis

I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters by Bayard Rustin; Michael G. Long, ed.

Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Daniel Levine

Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer by Jerald E. Podair

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter

Harriet Tubman the life and the life stories (online) by Jean McMahon Humez

Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People by Sarah Bradford

Harriet, the Moses of her people (online) by Sarah H. Bradford

Ida B. Wells: Social Reformer and Activist by Kristina DuRocher

Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings

Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America by Thomas Dyja; Seloc Publications Staff; Nichols Publishing Staff