MLK Day

January 15 - 22 check out our Instagram for content from SJU Archives and Special Collections commemorating Dr. King's visit to our campus in October, 1967.     

Below is a select list of resources from the Library about Dr. King and the civil rights movement, including ebooks you can access immediately with an SJU account, and books available for contactless pickup.

Race Relations in America

Database. "Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall." - Adam Matthew Digital

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The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America by Richard Lischer

Call Number: ebook 

Publication Date: 2020

Revised edition

 

 

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson

Call Number: E185.97.K5 A52 1998

Publication Date: 1998

Behind the Dream: the making of the speech that transformed a nation by Clarence B. Jones; Stuart Connelly; George Witte (Editor)

Call Number: E185.97.K5 J576 2011

Publication Date: 2011

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel by Gary Dorrien

Call Number: E185.615 .D655 2018

Publication Date: 2018

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. And Civil Rights Activism in the North 

Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2016

The Civil Rights Movement: a reference guide by Peter B. Levy

Call Number: E185.61 .C6148 2019

Publication Date: 2019

 

 

 

The King Years: historic moments in the civil rights movement by Taylor Branch

Call Number: E185.61 .B7913 2013

Publication Date: 2013

King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist; Mark Crispin Miller

Call Number: ebook 

Publication Date: 2009

Misremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. of Martin Luther King Jr by Jennifer J. Yanco

Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2014 

Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Fredrik Sunnemark

Call Number: ebook 

Publication Date: 2004

The Soul of America: the battle for our better angels by Jon Meacham

Call Number: E169.1 .M4977 2018

Publication Date: 2018

March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013

Publication Date: 2013

This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation.

March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2015

Publication Date: 2015

"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before." -book jacket

 

March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

Call Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2016

Publication Date: 2016

25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.