Race and Justice: Civil Rights Movement

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

Defining the struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915. by Susan D. Carle

The Negro in Twentieth Century America: A Reader on the Struggle for Civil Rights by John Hope Franklin; Isodore Starr, eds.

The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle by Clayborne Carson; David J. Garrow; Gerald Gill; Vincent Harding; Darlene Clark Hine, gen. eds.

Freedom's Daughters: the Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson

The Children by David Halberstam

Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement by Bettye Collier-Thomas; V. P. Franklin, eds.

The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-1968 by Steven Kasher

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter

God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights by Charles Marsh

Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam