Civil Rights & Law: Then and Now (fiction and nonfiction)
4. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
5. 
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
by:
Kristin Henning
4.56 avg rating — 436 ratings 6. 
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
by:
Jody Armour
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings 7. 
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Hajar Yazdiha
4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings 8. 
Get Bail, Leave Jail: America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting out of Custody before Trial
by:
S.J. Plotkin
4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings 
10. 
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
by:
Tavis Smiley
4.02 avg rating — 1,383 ratings 11. 
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
by:
Howard Zinn
4.25 avg rating — 2,170 ratings 
13. 
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by:
Janet Mock
4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings 
13. 
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
by:
Robin Bernstein
4.45 avg rating — 128 ratings 
17. 
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 18. 
Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973
by:
Martha F. Davis
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 19. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 20. 
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by:
Ari Berman
4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings 21. 
Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People s Justice
by:
Karen Houppert
4.09 avg rating — 173 ratings 22. 
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America
by:
Nick Kotz
4.13 avg rating — 199 ratings 23. 
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
24. 
When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back
by:
David Kirby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings 25. 
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Jack Greenberg
4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings 26. 
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
by:
John Lewis
4.35 avg rating — 6,239 ratings 27. 
Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality (Double Exposure, 2)
by:
John Lewis
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings 28. 
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 29. 
Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
by:
Minrose Gwin
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 
33. 
My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Kathryn Johnson
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 34. 
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 4.18 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
37. 
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
by:
Henry Hampton
4.51 avg rating — 239 ratings 
39. 
40. 
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
by:
Seth Cagin
4.49 avg rating — 162 ratings 41. 
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
by:
Michael K. Honey
4.41 avg rating — 243 ratings 42. 
The Selma Campaign: Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Craig Swanson
4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings 
46. 
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Jim Haskins
3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings 47. 
And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
48. 
Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
by:
Rebecca Burns
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings 49. 
Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle
by:
Martin A. Berger
4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings 50. 
Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church
by:
Edward Gilbreath
4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings 
53. 
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by:
Clay Risen
4.01 avg rating — 209 ratings 54. 
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Ruth Feldstein
3.97 avg rating — 61 ratings 54. 
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
by:
Todd S. Purdum
4.04 avg rating — 250 ratings 
57. 
The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
57. 
Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964–65
by:
Jim Dann
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 57. 
Drug Detection Dog Training: Libertarian Lawyers Fight Police State USA
by:
Ian Tinny
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 57. 
57. 
Outspoken: Clarence W. Newsome, Esq. A Civil Rights Champion: A Daughter's Reflections it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
57. 
Black and Blue Lives: How to Survive and Reform American Criminal Justice
by:
Curtis Elmore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 57. 
Take Charge: The Skills That Drive Professional Success
by:
Norman Bacal
4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings 67. 
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the US-Mexico Borderlands 4.25 avg rating — 226 ratings
67. 
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
by:
Derrick A. Bell
4.21 avg rating — 220 ratings 
67. 
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
by:
Colin Kaepernick
4.08 avg rating — 299 ratings 
73. 
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality 4.38 avg rating — 595 ratings
76. 
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
by:
Calvin Trillin
4.01 avg rating — 351 ratings 
79. 
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings 81. 
85. 
Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement
by:
Constance Curry
4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings 85. 
Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
by:
Clayborne Carson
3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings 
88. 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,160 ratings 89. 
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
by:
Clayborne Carson
4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings 89. 
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
by:
Shane Bauer
4.23 avg rating — 12,500 ratings 
91. 
A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
by:
Dolly Chugh
4.27 avg rating — 293 ratings 93. 
The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by:
Jonathan Rieder
3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings 
95. 
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
by:
Jonathan Rieder
4.24 avg rating — 517 ratings 
