Civil Rights Teaching: Biographies

This is a sampling of the vast print resources available on the Civil Rights and related movements for social justice as detailed in Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching.

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

By Theodore Rosengarten

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X

Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement

By Jim Haskins

 

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

By Anne Moody

 

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

By Ida B. Wells

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

By Barbara Ransby

Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

By Barbara Ransby

 

Fire in My Soul

By Joan Steinau Lester, Eleanor Holmes Norton (With), Coretta Scott King (Foreword by)

 

Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark

By Katherine Mellen Charron

 

Jessie de La Cruz: Profile of a United Farm Worker

By Gary Soto

 

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

By Carole Boston Weatherford

The Long Haul: An Autobiography

By Myles Horton, Herbert R. Kohl (With), Judith Kohl (With)

March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine

By Melba Pattillo Beals, Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr

By Michael Vinson Williams, Michael Vinson Williams

 

Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter

By Winson Hudson, Constance Curry, Derrick Bell (Foreword by)

 

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It

By Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow (Contribution by)

Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir

By Dorothy Height

 

Outside the Magic Circle

By Virginia Foster Durr, Hollinger F. Barnard (Editor), Studs Terkel (Foreword by)

The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement

By William L. Taylor

Race Man Selected Works, 1960-2015

By Julian Bond

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael

By Stokely Carmichael, Michael Ekwueme Thelwell (With), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction by)

Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

By Cynthia Stokes Brown (Editor), Septima Poinsette Clark

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis

Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

By Rawn Jr. James

The Rose That Grew from Concrete

By Tupac Shakur

A Shining Thread of Hope

By Darlene Clark Hine, Hine Thompson, Kathleen Thompson

Sing It!: A Biography of Pete Seeger

By Meryl Danziger

Soul on Ice

By Eldridge Cleaver

Streetcar to Justice

By Amy Hill Hearth

The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

By Joseph R. Fitzgerald

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

By Kay Mills

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

By Juan Williams

Unbought and Unbossed

By Shirley Chisholm, Shola Lynch (Afterword by), Donna Brazile (Foreword by)

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

By John Lewis, Michael D'Orso

Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By Melba Pattillo Beals

Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom

By Sonja D. Williams

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