Martin Luther King, Jr., Let Freedom Ring

Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: Essential Writings and Speeches

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters, Touchstone, 1988

Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire, Touchstone, 1998

John Lewis, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by

David Garrow, Bearing the Cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Clayborne Carson, The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990