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Children’s Books

Audrey Ades & Chiara Fedele: The Rabbi and the Reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight against Silence.

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland: My Stand for Freedom.

Loki Mulholland, Angela Fairwell, Charlotta Janssen: She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.

Tracy Newton & Ann M. Trousdale: Cotton Patch Rebel: The Story of Clarence Jordan.

Gwenyth Swain: President of the Underground Railroad: A Story About Levi Coffin.

Rich Wallace & Sandra Neil Wallace: Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights.

All Other Books

Emmy Schrader Adams; Elaine DeLott Baker; Joan C. Browning; Dorothy Dawson Burlage; Constance Curry; Casey Hayden; Penny Patch; Therese Del Pozzo; & Sue Thrasher: Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.

Frank Adams: James A Dombrowski: An American Heretic, 1897-1983.

Frank Adams & Myles Horton: Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander.           

Herbert Aptheker: Anti-Racism in U.S. History: The First Two Hundred Years.

Chuck Armsbury: Odyssey of a Mother Country Radical.

Bill Ayers: Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist.

Stanley Keith Arnold: Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970.

Dan Berger: Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity.

William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn: Race Course: Against White Supremacy.

Erin Royston Battat: Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left.

Patricia Bell-Scott: The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice.

Drick Boyd: White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice.

Sarah Patton Boyle: The Desegregated Heart; A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition.

Anne Braden: The Wall Between.  

Cynthia Stokes Brown: Refusing Racism.

James T. Campbell & Elaine Owens. Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars.

David L. Chappell: Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.

Leilah Danielson: American Gandhi: A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century.

Morris Dees & Steve Fiffer: A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees.

Marc Dollinger: Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s.

Martin Duberman: Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left.

Virginia Durr: Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr.

Virginia Durr & Patricia Sullivan: Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years.

Fred Hobson: But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative.

Myles Horton:

• The Long Haul: An Autobiography.
• The Myles Horton Reader: Education For Social Change.
• (In conversation with Paulo Freire). We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change.

John Egerton: Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

Robert Hunt Ferguson: Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi.

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

John M. Glen: Highlander: No Ordinary School.

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America.

Debby Irving: Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race.

Chervis Isom: The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in Birmingham, Alabama, During the Civil Rights Era.

Selma James: Sex, Race, and Class.

Fred Jerome and Roger Taylor:Einstein on Race and Racism.

Spoma Jovanovic: Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro.

Davis D. Joyce: Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision.  

Ben Kamin: Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers.

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz: The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism.

Arthur Kinoy: Rights on Trial: The Odyssey of a People’s Lawyer.

Irwin Klibaner: Conscience of a Troubled South: The Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1946-1966.

Linda Krueger: Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938–1963. 

Thomas Krueger: And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938-1948.

Kimberly K. Little: You Must Be from the North: Southern White Women in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement.

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin:The Making of a Southerner.

Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Danny Lyon.

Florence Mars: Witness in Philadelphia.

Gary May: The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo.

Gregg L. Michel:  Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969.

Hilary Moore & James Tracy: No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements.

Gail S. Murray: Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era.

GaryMurrell:“The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”: A Biography of Herbert Aptheker.

Lise Pearlman: Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender.

James Peck: Freedom Ride. 

Stephen Preskill: Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice.

Joachim Prinz: Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography—the German and Early American Years.

Susan M. Reverby: Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman.

Joseph T. Reiff: Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society.

Kim Ruehl: A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School.

John A. Salmond: A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965.

Debra L. Schultz: Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement.

MabSegrest:Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South.

James Smallwood: Reform, Red Scare, and Ruin: Virginia Durr, Prophet of the New South.

LillianSmith:Killers of the Dream.

LillianSmith & Margaret Rose Gladney: How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith.

Lillian Smith. Edited by Lisa Hodgens & Margaret Rose Gladney: A Lillian Smith Reader.  

Mary Stanton:

• From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo.
• Journey toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 
• Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950.

Anne Stefani: Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970.

Nancy Stoller: Southern White Girl Seeks Social Change: A Twentieth Century Memoir.

Becky Thompson: Promise And A Way Of Life: White Antiracist Activism.

T. K. Thorne: Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days.

James P. Turner: Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials: The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions.

Clive Webb: Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights.

Bob Zellner: The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. 

Histories of White Abolitionists

Osborne Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry.

Lerone Bennett: Pioneers in Protest.

Richard Owen Boyer: The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and a History.

W.E.B. Du Bois: John Brown.

Tony Horwitz: Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War.

Gerda Lerner: The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition.

Henry Mayer: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery.

Eugene L. Meyer: Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army.

Gary B. Nash: Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist.

Marcus Rediker: The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist With a New Preface.

David S. Reynolds: John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.

John Stauffer: The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.

Dorothy Wickenden: The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights.