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This bibliography on civil rights in America contains selected works for both a general audience and younger readers. Each item listed below links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. To find additional works on any of these topics, select Browse, and then enter the following Library of Congress subject headings:
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by Black Leaders: A Personal History of Students Who Led the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's--and What Happened to Them: Julian Bond, Senator, Atlanta, Georgia: Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C.: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Television Correspondent, MacN by 
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by 
Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement by 
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by 
The Civil Rights Revolution: Events and Leaders, 1955-1968 by 
Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969 by 
My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience by 
On Fire: Five Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the Rhetoric of Protest by 
Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements by The Second Reconstruction: A History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement by 
The Selling of Civil Rights by 
Women of the Civil Rights Movement by 
The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement by 
American Civil Rights: Primary Sources by 
The American Civil Rights Movement: The African-American Struggle for Equality by 
Civil Rights: The Struggle for Black Equality by The Civil Rights Movement by 
The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the Present by 
Martin Luther King Jr by 
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader by They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X by 
