"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...

Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in 1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.

"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., including sections from his writings. Draws from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own writings to provide insight into key events in his life, including the Montgomery bus boycott and his "I Have a Dream" speech.

The author returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories -- especially those of her mentor, V -- as she draws directly upon the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, activists, and a group of black students at the eye of the storm.

"Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's...

This wide-ranging biography examines the life and work of one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the twentieth century, Alonso S. Perales, who was an attorney, civil rights activist, author and US diplomat.

A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.