Great Reads About the Civil Rights Movement

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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,873 ratings
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Through My Eyes
Through My Eyes 4.47 avg rating — 5,951 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating — 21,409 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 4.33 avg rating — 12,819 ratings
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 4.18 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Rosa
Rosa 4.36 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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The Other Side
The Other Side 4.51 avg rating — 8,550 ratings
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Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1)
Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1) 4.16 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement 3.98 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer 4.31 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days 4.34 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins 4.36 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement 4.23 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Let It Shine
Let It Shine 4.06 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 4.07 avg rating — 6,211 ratings
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down 4.32 avg rating — 2,408 ratings
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Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book 4.33 avg rating — 2,486 ratings
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A Thousand Never Evers
A Thousand Never Evers 3.84 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Abby Takes A Stand (Scraps of Time #1)
Abby Takes A Stand (Scraps of Time #1) 3.93 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Stella by Starlight
Stella by Starlight 4.10 avg rating — 15,252 ratings
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Meridian
Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC 4.45 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy, #2)
Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 4,177 ratings
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The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy 4.12 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Fog Machine
The Fog Machine 4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case 4.07 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March 4.11 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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Freshwater Road
Freshwater Road 3.75 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act 4.01 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Making of Black Revolutionaries
The Making of Black Revolutionaries 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Outspoken: Clarence W. Newsome, Esq. A Civil Rights Champion: A Daughter's Reflections
Outspoken: Clarence W. Newsome, Esq. A Civil Rights Champion: A Daughter's Reflections it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings
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The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC 4.07 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History 3.67 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
The Story of Ruby Bridges 4.44 avg rating — 12,960 ratings
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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement 3.62 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Yard War
Yard War 3.89 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael 4.43 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X 4.17 avg rating — 435 ratings
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A Friendship for Today
A Friendship for Today 3.82 avg rating — 977 ratings
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement 4.42 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 70,146 ratings
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Circle of Fire (American Girl History Mysteries, #14)
Circle of Fire (American Girl History Mysteries, #14) 3.93 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
Martin Rising: Requiem For a King 4.33 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story
Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story 4.24 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior
Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior 3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Children
The Children 4.50 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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White Water
White Water 4.14 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Dear America: With the Might of Angels - Audio
Dear America: With the Might of Angels - Audio 4.15 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song 4.20 avg rating — 503 ratings
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible 4.24 avg rating — 882 ratings
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The Starplace
The Starplace 3.88 avg rating — 297 ratings
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I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream 4.50 avg rating — 3,706 ratings
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Freedom School, Yes!
Freedom School, Yes! 4.08 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
Mississippi Trial, 1955 3.89 avg rating — 3,949 ratings
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Jericho Walls
Jericho Walls 3.98 avg rating — 118 ratings
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My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.19 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation 4.17 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Fire from the Rock
Fire from the Rock 3.98 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Child of the Civil Rights Movement 4.31 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Yankee Girl
Yankee Girl 4.08 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Glory Be
Glory Be 3.90 avg rating — 5,434 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision 4.33 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Freedom Maze
The Freedom Maze 3.86 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly 4.07 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Lions of Little Rock
The Lions of Little Rock 4.26 avg rating — 20,573 ratings
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement 3.96 avg rating — 397 ratings
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We March
We March 4.17 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Listening for Leroy
Listening for Leroy 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland 4.16 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Brown Thrasher Books)
Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Brown Thrasher Books) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mama's Window
Mama's Window 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Never Stop Singing: A Melody Classic Volume 2 (American Girl: Melody #2)
Never Stop Singing: A Melody Classic Volume 2 (American Girl: Melody #2) 4.14 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality 4.67 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5)
Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5) 3.98 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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No Ordinary Sound: A Classic Featuring Melody (American Girl Book 1)
No Ordinary Sound: A Classic Featuring Melody (American Girl Book 1) 4.19 avg rating — 561 ratings
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My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Never Stop Singing: A Melody Classic 2
Never Stop Singing: A Melody Classic 2 4.14 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s 4.51 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement 4.14 avg rating — 149 ratings
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In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez 4.19 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
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John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement
The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement 4.44 avg rating — 57 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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