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The Bill of the Century by Clay Risen
Call Number: KF4749.R57 2014
ISBN: 1608198243
Publication Date: 2014
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. The bill's passage has often been credited to the political leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, or the moral force of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet as Risen shows, the battle for the Civil Rights Act was a story much bigger than those two men.
Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation by James W. Endersby; William T. Horner
Call Number: KF4757.E53 2016
ISBN: 0826220851
Publication Date: 2016
In 1936, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university's decision.
MLK50 Symposium : where do we go from here
Call Number: JC599.U5 M55 2018
Publication Date: 2018
A collection of essays and remarks from the MLK50 Symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death, hosted by The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and the National Civil Rights Museum.
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King; Barbara Reynolds
Call Number: E185.97.K47 A3 2017
ISBN: 1627795987
Publication Date: 2017
The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and civil and human rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.
Showdown by Wil Haygood
Call Number: KF8745.M34 H394 2015
ISBN: 0307947378
Publication Date: 2016
Haygood uses the framework of the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, to weave a provocative and moving look at Marshall's life as well as at the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped--or desperately tried to stop--the civil rights movement.
Subversive Southerner by Catherine Fosl
Call Number: E185.98.B73 F67 2002
ISBN: 0312294875
Publication Date: 2002
An oral history - based biography, that demonstrates how racism, sexism, and anticommunism intersected in the twentieth-century South.
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: E185.615.D97 2017
ISBN: 1250135990
Publication Date: 2017
Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis; Michael D'Orso
Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 1999
ISBN: 0156007088
Publication Date: 1999
Congressman John Lewis takes readers inside the civil rights movement and shares rare insight into the personalities at its heart.

Anne Braden Institute

The Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research was founded in 2006 to honor the work and legacy of Anne Braden.

Braden was a Louisville journalist, organizer, and educator who was among the earliest and most dedicated white allies of the southern civil rights movement. Martin Luther King praised Braden’s extraordinary integrity in his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in 1963.

The Institute works to bridge the gap between academic research and community activism for racial and social justice.

" Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Interviews conducted by Cate Fosl for her oral history based biography, 'Subversive Southerner'.

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