MHL will be closed on Monday, January 17th in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If you're able, a great way to honor the memory of Dr. King would be to participate in the APS Day of Service (created by Andover Public schools but open to community members as well as students and parents of students). Another way to observe this holiday might be to read one of these books about the past, present, and future of the civil rights movement in the USA.
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An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States
by Kyle Mays This first history of the intersection of the Black and Native American struggles for freedom examines pre-Revolutionary America to today’s Black Lives Matter movement and indigenous activism against the use of Native American imagery in culture and sports. |
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Anti racist ally : an introduction to action & activism
by Sophie Williams The creator of the popular @officialmillennialblack Instagram shares practical insights into active practices of anti-racism, covering subjects ranging from the terminology of today’s world to the personal biases that shape inequality. |
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The Black Church : this is our story, this is our song
by Henry Louis Gates The Harvard University professor, NAACP Image Award recipient and Emmy Award-winning creator of The African Americans presents a history of the Black church in America that illuminates its essential role in culture, politics and resistance to white supremacy. |
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Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge A portrait of the lesser-known, turn-of-the-20th-century civil rights activist explores how he used his influence as an emancipator and the editor of the Guardian to promote gradualist politics and rally black working-class Americans throughout the post-Reconstruction era. |
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Blue eyes, brown eyes : a cautionary tale of race and brutality
by Stephen G. Bloom The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate racism. |
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Buses are a comin' : memoir of a freedom rider
by Charles Person A surviving original Freedom Rider recounts his firsthand experiences with the South’s historical and ongoing resistance to racial equality, sharing insights into what is required for progressive change to become possible in America. |
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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination. |
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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. |
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I am a man : photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
by William R. Ferris The photographs featured in I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 bear witness to the courage of protesters who faced unimaginable violence and brutality as well as the quiet determination of the elderly and the angry commitment of the young. Talented photographers documented that decade and captured both the bravery of civil rights workers and the violence they faced. Most notably, this book features the work of Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Doris Derby, Roland Freeman, Danny Lyon, Art Shay, and Ernest Withers. Like the fabled music and tales of the American South, their photographs document the region's past, its people, and the places that shaped their lives. Protesters in these photographs generated the mighty leverage that eventually transformed a segregated South. The years from 1960 to 1970 unleashed both hope and profound change as desegregation opened public spaces and African Americans secured their rights. The photographs in this volume reveal, as only great photography can, the pivotal moments that changed history, and yet remind us how far we have to go. |
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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist. |
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John Lewis : The Last Interview and Other Conversations
by John Lewis Presents interviews from the civil rights activist and congressman at almost every stage of his career, illustrating why he has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today. Original. |
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King and the other America : the Poor People's Campaign and the quest for economic equality
by Sylvie Laurent Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. A neglected and obscured episode of the late Civil Rights movement, The Poor People's Campaign, designed by King in 1967 and carried out after his death, brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education. Digging into earlier 20th century arguments about economic inequality across America, which King drew on through his entire political and religious life, Sylvie Laurent argues that the Poor People's Campaign was the logical culmination of King's influences and ideas and the lasting impact he had on young activists and the public. Fifty years later, growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book is essential to understanding today's movement through King's radical, intellectual thought and his struggle for genuine equality for all. |
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Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
by Evette Dionne Explores the lesser-known efforts of such black suffrage activists as NAACP founder Mary Church Terrell, education advocate Anna Julia Cooper and journalist Ida B. Wells in helping African American women obtain the same rights as their white feminist counterparts. |
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Mighty justice : the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
by Jabari Asim Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers’ adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America’s military environments, churches and courtrooms. |
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The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. : Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951
by Martin Luther King The first volume of a chronologically arranged collection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings contains an introductory, biographical essay as well as annotated letters and documents that depict the origins of the leader's social consciousness. |
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Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
by Suzanne Cope Shows how food was used by two unsung women as a potent and necessary ideological and political tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change during the civil rights movement. |
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Run. Book one
by John Lewis This astounding graphic novel tells the story of an often overlooked chapter of civil rights history through the eyes of Congressman John Lewis—one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. |
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The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs From Gates Scholar and First Lady of Stockton, CA, comes the first book to celebrate the three great women who raised and shaped America's most pivotal heroes: MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. |
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Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
by Keisha N. Blain Blending together social commentary, biography and history, an award-winning historian challenges us to listen to Fannie Lou Hamer, a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement, as we grapple with modern concerns around race, inequality and social justice. |
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Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Kate Clifford Larson The most complete biography of Fannie Lou Hamer draws on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement, including unredacted FBI and DOJ files, interviews with civil rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and Library of Congress, and extensive conversations with Hamer's family and close associates. |
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When they call you a terrorist : a story of Black Lives Matter and the power to change the world
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most powerful movements in the world. This is her story. Necessary and timely, 'When They Call You a Terrorist' reminds us that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love: that love is the push to search for justice for those victimized by the powerful. With journal entries, photos and notes that show the formation of an activist from a very young age, this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience seeks to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. |