MLK Reading List

The following titles represent an overview of the life, legacy, and causes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Historical Perspectives

African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms
All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, but Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies
Alpha Phi Alpha
American Negro Songs and Spirituals: A Comprehensive Collection of 230 Folk Songs, Religious and Secular
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Race, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
Black Leaders in Conflict: Joseph H. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Breath of Freedom, A
Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
Civil Rights Chronicle
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Race Relations in the United States, 1960-1980
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March, The
Unsteady March, The
Unstoppable Man: A Bibliography, Marin Luther King Jr.
White violence and Black response: from Reconstruction to Montgomery

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Vietnam and civil rights
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence
Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., The (Multiple Volumes)
Parting the Waters
Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
To redeem the soul of America: the SOuthern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
To Shape a New World: essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the Mountaintop
Trumpet of Conscious
Unequal Treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care
Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery voting rights march, The
Unstoppable Man: A Bibloography, Martin Luther King, Jr.
What manner of man: a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where do we go from here: chaos or community?
Why we can't wait
Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., The

50 Years Later: Why the Murder of Dr. King Still Hurts
Across that Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education
American Journey of Barack Obama
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
And We Are Not Saved: The ELusive Quest for Racial Justice
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America'
Barack Obama and Twenty-First Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA
Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Between the World and Me
Black means...
Black Sexual Politics
Bone to pick: of forgiveness, reconciliation, reparation, and revenge
Chasing King's Killer
Dispatches form the ebony tower: intellectuals confront the African American experience
Fifty Years Since MLK
Impact of Immigration on African Americans, The
Movement Without Marches, A
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Radical King, The
Unequal Treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disaprities in health care
Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery voting rights march, The
Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper's Magazine
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories

Against the odds: scholars who challenged racism in the twentieth century
Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise
Black church in the African-American experience, The
Bone to Pick: of forgiveness, reconciliation, reparation, and revenge
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A profile/1970
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A profile/1964
Negro church in America, The
Road to Memphis
Sounds of the struggle: persons and perspectives in civil rights
To redeem the soul of America: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Unfinishe Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March, The
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
White Privilege and Black Rights: the Inustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
White Violence and Black Response: from Reconstruction to Montgomery
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to be Blck Now
Why We Can't Wait