Books like To redeem the soul of America by Adam Fairclough

A bilingual biography of Martin Luther King Jr., detailing his role as a Baptist minister and civil‑rights leader who championed non‑violent protest against racial injustice in the United States.

Jon Meacham revisits pivotal moments in U.S. history—ranging from the Civil War to civil rights—to show how America’s "better angels" have prevailed against division and fear.

A scholarly exploration of the legal frameworks that have shaped race relations and civil rights for African Americans in United States history.

A detailed chronicle of the civil rights movement from the late Eisenhower era to President Kennedy’s assassination.

Race and Democracy traces the civil rights movement in Louisiana and examines the contributions of key figures like Alexander Pierre Tureaud, the NAACP, and Louisiana governors Huey Long, Earl Long, and John McKeithen.

A curated collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, writings, interviews, and excerpts from five books, arranged chronologically and thematically.

An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.

Kenneth O'Reilly, whose Racial Matters blew the lid off the FBI's investigation and harassment of black leaders, now scrutinizes each president's record on race. Nixon's Piano reveals that instead of being the agents of progress in racial relations, American presidents have a long and consistent history of supporting slavery, obstructing civil rights, and deliberately fanning racism. With the exceptions of Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, argues O'Reilly, every president has sacrificed black rights for white votes. Perhaps most alarming, O'Reilly offers substantial evidence of presidents whose repressive political policies violated their own moral code. George Washington corresponded with Lafayette about the evils of slavery and mused about establishing a plantation for freed blacks, but President Washington kept his slaves and refused to lend the weight of his office to the abolitionist movement. Jefferson, certain and eloquent on the subject of equality in the Declaration of Independence, found no voice as president to oppose slavery. Lincoln, the first president to allow blacks at White House social functions and the eventual hero of the abolitionist movement, opposed black efforts to vote, sit on juries, hold office, or marry whites. Like many other presidents, Lincoln supported the colonization movement as the simplest solution to the nation's racial strife. FDR, the father of twentieth century social reform, but fearful of offending white voters, refused to support an anti-lynching law, banned black reporters from press conferences, and undermined his own Fair Employment Practice Committee. More recent presidents, according to O'Reilly, have pursued a racial politics ranging from the timid to the devious. With substantial evidence and insightful analysis of both official policy and private conduct, O'Reilly illustrates that the principle of white over black has been the fundamental organizing principle of American politics from the beginning of our nation's history to today.

John Dittmer’s *Local People* chronicles the decade‑long struggle for civil rights in Mississippi, detailing the courageous actions of African American communities, voter‑registration battles, freedom rides, and the violent responses that shaped the state’s history.