Top 10 Civil Rights Books/Movies
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Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Black Panther

When T'Challa rises to the throne as the King of Wakanda, he faces challenges to his nation and turns to his powers as the Black Panther to save the kingdom.
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin

The true story behind the award-winning film of the same name explores the role of travel in civil rights, the specific impact of the automobile on African-American life and the cultural importance of Victor and Alma Green’s famous Green Book.
The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold
by Dan C. Goldberg

An award-winning journalist, through oral histories and original interviews with surviving family members, recounts the story of 13 courageous black men — the first to wear gold stripes — who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II.
His Truth is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead

A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by Jerry Mitchell

An award-winning investigative journalist recounts the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” murders of three civil rights workers by the KKK, describing his role in reopening the case and bringing its mastermind and participating Klansmen to justice.
The Sword and the Shield: the Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
by Peniel E. Joseph

The author of Stokely: A Life challenges popular misconceptions in a dual portrait of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. that reveals how in spite of conflicting ideologies the pair inspired each other’s achievements.
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

A portrait of television producer, civil rights activist, and avid archivist Marion Stokes, who recorded television news on VHS tapes twenty-four hours a day for thirty years in order to preserve history for future generations.
Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes and the Fight for Social Justice
by Bob Schron

A moving and celebratory history shows how the tradition of black protest in sports has been consistent, necessary and organic, and that the present crisis of misunderstanding and intolerance demands that this tradition continue as the country struggles toward fairness and equality.

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