16 Books About MLK That Reveal the Man Behind the Civil Rights Icon
Over 90 years after his birth, we look back on King's legacy with these vital reads.
By
Catherine Phelan | Updated Jan 12, 2021 | Published Jan 15, 2019
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MLK: An American Legacy
By David J. Garrow
The Promise and the Dream
By David Margolick
Judgment Days
By Nick Kotz
Killing the Dream
By Gerald Posner
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
By Taylor Branch
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
By Taylor Branch
Becoming King
By Troy Jackson
King's Dream
By Eric J. Sundquist
Black Theology & Black Power
By James H. Cone
Waking From the Dream
By David L. Chappell
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
By Coretta Scott King
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Martin Luther King Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson
Why We Can't Wait
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
March: Book One
By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Let the Trumpet Sound
By Stephen B. Oates
