Walking with the Wind by Congressman John Lewis

A survey of the people, events, and places of Black history from 1492 to the present include the forgotten stories of escaped slaves, little-known entrepreneurs, and civil rights activists.

The struggle for civil rights was one of the most powerful movements in American history. This outstanding reader is rich in reminiscences and other primary sources, with 64 selections in all. The materials are grouped and presented so as to explain the logic, the strategies, and the conflicts within a movement that has recast much of the nation's mind and culture.

Covers slavery, abolition, reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, and the continuing challenges of racism

Commemorative magazine of 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech.

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.

I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson.

In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family with thirteen children, took public officials at their word when they were offered “Freedom of Choice” to send their children to any school they wished, and so began their unforeseen struggle to desegregate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi. In this true account from the front lines of the civil rights movement, four generations of the Carter family speak to author and civil rights activist Constance Curry, who lived this story alongside the family—a story of clear-eyed determination, extraordinary grit, and sweet triumph.

Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from Black religion.

The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.

The classic memoir by Cleveland Sellers that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his volunteer work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s civil rights movement.

Simple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court's epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans' ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end. It was and remains, beyond question, one of the truly significant events in American history, "probably the most important American government act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation," in the view of constitutional scholar Louis H. Pollak. The Brown decision climaxed along, torturous battle for black equality in education, making hard law out of vague principles and opening the way for the broad civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and beyond.

Simple Justice is the story of that battle. Richard Kluger traces the background of the epochal decision,from its remote legal and cultural roots to the complex personalities of those who brought about its realization. The result is a landmark work of popular history, graceful and fascinatingly detailed, the panoramic account of a struggle for human dignity in process since the birth of the nation.