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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, is a nonfiction book about the African-American civil rights movement written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001.
Pages in category "Non-fiction books about the civil rights movement" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1989 autobiography written by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. [1] The book charts his life and work with his best friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their leadership of the Civil Rights Movement to help African Americans obtain equal rights with white Americans. [1]
Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency, 1930–1970 is a 1982 book by the sociologist Doug McAdam (published by the University of Chicago Press).The book details the rise and fall of the American Civil Rights Movement by looking at it through the paradigm of the opportunities available via the established political structure, and more specifically the opportunity for ...
My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered is a book of oral history regarding the American Civil Rights Movement by journalist Howell Raines.It is based on interviews with people involved in — for and against — the struggle to end racial segregation in the American South from the time of the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...