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Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2026

This year, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by learning about his thoughts on reparations, and by reading about the Civil Rights Act.

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  • King and the Other America

    the Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality

    Laurent, Sylvie
    Book, 2018Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] — 305.56909 K585L 2018
  • To the Promised Land

    Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice

    Honey, Michael K.
    Book, 2018New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. — 323.092 K585H 2018
  • Queen Mother

    Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore

    Farmer, Ashley D.,
    Book, 2025New York : Pantheon Books, 2025. — B M7813F 2025
  • The Bill of the Century

    the Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act

    Risen, Clay
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2014. — 342.73085 Un328R 2014
  • Streaming Video, 2016[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • The Two Reconstructions

    the Struggle for Black Enfranchisement

    Valelly, Richard M.
    Book, 2004Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004] — 323.1196 V2342T 2004
  • An Idea Whose Time Has Come

    Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Purdum, Todd S.
    Book, 2014New York, New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2014. — 342.73085 Un318P 2014
  • Judgment Days

    Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America

    Kotz, Nick
    Book, 2005Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. — 323.0922 J6349K 2005
  • A Freedom Budget for All Americans

    Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today

    Le Blanc, Paul, 1947-
    Book, 2013New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013] — 330.973 L4926F 2013
  • Root and Branch

    Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

    James, Rawn, Jr
    Book, 2010New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2010. — 347.7314 J236R 2010
  • From Here to Equality

    Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century

    Darity, William A., Jr., 1953-
    Book, 2020Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] — 323.1196 D2484F 2020
  • See essay "The Case for Reperations"
    Book, 2017New York : One World, [2017] — 973.932 C6326W 2017
  • Blackballed

    the Black Vote and US Democracy

    Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
    Book, 2020New York : New York Review Books, 2020. — 324.62089 P651B 2020