MHL will be closed on Monday, January 15th in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We will be open our usual hours on Saturday and Sunday, so come on in to pick up one of these books about Dr. King or other aspects of the American civil rights movement.
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The Black Church : this is our story, this is our song
by Henry Louis Gates The Harvard University professor, NAACP Image Award recipient and Emmy Award-winning creator of The African Americans presents a history of the Black church in America that illuminates its essential role in culture, politics and resistance to white supremacy. |
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Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
by Charles Person A surviving original Freedom Rider recounts his firsthand experiences with the South’s historical and ongoing resistance to racial equality, sharing insights into what is required for progressive change to become possible in America. |
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I am a man : photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
by William R. Ferris The photographs featured in I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 bear witness to the courage of protesters who faced unimaginable violence and brutality as well as the quiet determination of the elderly and the angry commitment of the young. Talented photographers documented that decade and captured both the bravery of civil rights workers and the violence they faced. Most notably, this book features the work of Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Doris Derby, Roland Freeman, Danny Lyon, Art Shay, and Ernest Withers. Like the fabled music and tales of the American South, their photographs document the region's past, its people, and the places that shaped their lives. Protesters in these photographs generated the mighty leverage that eventually transformed a segregated South. The years from 1960 to 1970 unleashed both hope and profound change as desegregation opened public spaces and African Americans secured their rights. The photographs in this volume reveal, as only great photography can, the pivotal moments that changed history, and yet remind us how far we have to go. |
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King : a life
by Jonathan Eig Drawing on recently declassified FBI files, this first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon reveals the courageous and often emotionally troubled man who demanded peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself, while showing how his demands for racial and economic justice remain just as urgent today. |
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King and the other America : the Poor People's Campaign and the quest for economic equality
by Sylvie Laurent Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. A neglected and obscured episode of the late Civil Rights movement, The Poor People's Campaign, designed by King in 1967 and carried out after his death, brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education. Digging into earlier 20th century arguments about economic inequality across America, which King drew on through his entire political and religious life, Sylvie Laurent argues that the Poor People's Campaign was the logical culmination of King's influences and ideas and the lasting impact he had on young activists and the public. Fifty years later, growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book is essential to understanding today's movement through King's radical, intellectual thought and his struggle for genuine equality for all. |
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The kneeling man : my father's life as a Black spy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
by Leta McCollough Seletzky The author presents this intimate and heartbreaking story of her quest for the truth about her father—the Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled down beside the assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., trying save him—whose true identity challenged her understanding of what it meant to be Black in America. |
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Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
by Evette Dionne Explores the lesser-known efforts of such black suffrage activists as NAACP founder Mary Church Terrell, education advocate Anna Julia Cooper and journalist Ida B. Wells in helping African American women obtain the same rights as their white feminist counterparts. |
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The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. : Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951
by Martin Luther King The first volume of a chronologically arranged collection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings contains an introductory, biographical essay as well as annotated letters and documents that depict the origins of the leader's social consciousness. |
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Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
by Suzanne Cope Shows how food was used by two unsung women as a potent and necessary ideological and political tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change during the civil rights movement. |
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The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs A Gates Cambridge Scholar presents a tribute to the mothers of Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., to share insights into the prejudices they endured, their commitment to education and their anti-racism advocacy. 75,000 first printing. |
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Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Kate Clifford Larson The most complete biography of Fannie Lou Hamer draws on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement, including unredacted FBI and DOJ files, interviews with civil rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and Library of Congress, and extensive conversations with Hamer's family and close associates. |
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You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live : ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America
by Paul Kix Taking readers behind the scenes of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's pivotal 10-week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, a journalist zeroes in on its specific history and its echoes throughout our culture now. 60,000 first printing. |