Julian Bond refers to these books
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 6. 
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by:
Taylor Branch
4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
by:
Clayborne Carson
4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings 
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by:
John Dittmer
4.28 avg rating — 215 ratings 13. 
The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
by:
John Dittmer
3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings 14. 
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
by:
Mary L. Dudziak
3.96 avg rating — 513 ratings 15. 
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
by:
Glenn T. Eskew
3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings 16. 
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
by:
Adam Fairclough
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings 17. 
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
by:
James Farmer
4.37 avg rating — 90 ratings 18. 
Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
by:
Cynthia Fleming
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
by:
Catherine Fosl
4.26 avg rating — 119 ratings 21. 
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Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
by:
Vincent Harding
4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
by:
Michael K. Honey
4.41 avg rating — 243 ratings 26. 
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt 4.30 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
by:
Richard Kluger
4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings 28. 
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America
by:
Nick Kotz
4.13 avg rating — 199 ratings 29. 
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Lyndhurst Series on the South)
by:
Danny Lyon
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969
by:
Gregg L. Michel
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 34. 
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movements: Black Communities Organizing for Change
by:
Aldon D. Morris
4.11 avg rating — 201 ratings 
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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
by:
Charles M. Payne
4.32 avg rating — 1,422 ratings 37. 
Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by:
Gerald Posner
4.07 avg rating — 217 ratings 38. 
My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South
by:
Howell Raines
4.47 avg rating — 295 ratings 39. 
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 40. 
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
by:
Pete Seeger
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings 41. 
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
by:
Timothy B. Tyson
4.19 avg rating — 1,020 ratings 45. 
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
by:
Bruce Watson
4.20 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 
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W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 3.98 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
by:
Nancy MacLean
3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings