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African American/Black History and Experience: Civil Rights & Black Power Movements

Recommended Books and eBooks

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
The Tuskegee Student Uprising
The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
Sisters in the Struggle
Power to the People: the World of the Black Panthers
King: a Life
Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and '60s
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
Driving the Green Book
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black celebrities, and the civil rights movement
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of the Black Power
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC

I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin

Watch the entire film on Kanopy and other streaming media platforms

Interview with Malcolm X, 1963

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.

Source: PBS

Watch the entire film on Kanopy and other streaming media platforms

Eyes on the Prize


Award-winning documentary shown on PBS. Using interviews and historical footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985. Watch the entire series the Edmonds College Library Kanopy Streaming service.  You can also check the DVD's out from the library.

For background and information about the documentary, as well as profiles and primary sources,visit the Eyes on the Prize website.

Documentaries