LibGuides: Civil Rights Movement: Books

Select Books about the Civil Rights

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles Person; Richard Rooker
Publication Date: 2021
Memoir by Charles Person, one of the last surviving freedom riders.
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2013
First volume of the autobiography of Representative John Lewis, told in graphic novel form. (Volumes 2 & 3 also available.)
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
Publication Date: 1988
First volume of the Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy about Dr. King and his legacy. (Volumes 2 & 3 also available.)
Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publication Date: 1958

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