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Novels, Poetry, Drama, History, Critical Analyses, Correspondence, Memoirs
  • Adoff, Arnold (Editor) - Poetry of Black America
  • Angelou, Maya - Even the Stars Look Lonesome
  • Angelou, Maya - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
  • Angelou, Maya - Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now
  • Carlson, Lew - Beyond the Red, White and Blue
  • Baldwin, James - My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
  • Cary, Lorene - Black Ice
  • Ellison, Ralph W. - Invisible Man
        http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/bellow-on-ellison.html
        http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. - The Classic Slave Narratives
  • Hughes, Langston - The Complete Collected Works of Langston Hughes
  • Hurston, Zora Neal - The Sanctified Church
  • Hurston, Zora Neal - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • King, BB w/ David Ritz - Blues All Around Me
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Letter from Birmingham Jail
  • Lomax, Alan - The Land Where The Blues Began
  • Marable, Manning - W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat
  • Moody, Anne - Coming of Age in Mississippi
  • Nieman, Donald G. - Promises To Keep
  • Shakur, Sanyika (Kody Scott) - Monster: The Autobiography of a LA Gang Member
  • Thurman, Wallace - The Blacker The Berry...
  • Vincent, Theodore G. - Voices of a Black Nation
  • Wright, Richard - Black Boy
  • Wright, Richard - Native Son
  • X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • Zinn, Howard - A People's History of the United States
Videos
  • Guggenheim, Charles -- A Time for Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement
  • Houston, Bobby -- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
  • Lacy, Madison Davis, Jr. -- Eyes on the Prize
  • Lee, Spike -- 4 Little Girls


Another book list can be found at this link:
    http://www.people.memphis.edu/~kenichls/LitListofCRM.html


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should deprive a minority of any
clearly written constitutional right,
it might, in a moral point of view,
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