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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Publisher Comments Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Publisher Comments If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by James Washington Publisher Comments "We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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At Canaan's Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-68 (06 Edition) by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Publisher Comments In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments Featuring contributions from Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis, George McGovern, Rosa Parks, and others, this inspiring collection features the milestone speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freedom Summer by Doug Mcadam Publisher Comments In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick Publisher Comments The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments In the second volume of the three-part trilogy of monumental history that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Parting the Waters", Taylor Branch recreates the dramas that affected every American as the civil rights movement grew in size, impact, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr. Synopsis Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I've Got the Light of Freedom : Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Rev 07 Edition) by Charles Payne Publisher Comments This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Can't Wait (Signet Classics) by Martin Luther Jr King Publisher Comments In this account of the struggle for civil rights in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, and assessment of the work ahead to bring about full equality for African Americans, Dr. King offers an analysis of the events that propelled the Civil Rights movement to... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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In Struggle: Sncc and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, with a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X Publisher Comments An autobiography of the Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Listen, Whitey!: The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 by Pat Thomas Publisher Comments Noted music producer and scholar Pat Thomas spent five years in Oakland, CA researching Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. While befriending members of the Black Panther Party, Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Hardcover
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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 Pow (Vintage) by Danielle L. Mcguire Publisher Comments Prologue ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1944, the Rock Hill Holiness Church, in Abbeville, Alabama, rocked late into the night. It was nearly midnight when the doors of the wooden, one-story church swung open releasing streams of worshippers, all African American, into... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Have a Dream - 40th Anniversary Edition: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World by Martin Luther King Publisher Comments "HIS LIFE INFORMED US, HIS DREAMS SUSTAIN US" -from the Citation of the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., July 4,1977 Martin Luther King's twenty most memorable writings and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Here I Stand by Paul Robeson Publisher Comments Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the United States, his strong support of African... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Publisher Comments At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal... (read more) List Price $17.60 Your price: $16.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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