AA371 and HI298: African-American History

Black Panther in Exile is the gripping story of O'Neal, one of the influential members of the movement, who now lives in Africa--unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past.

James Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer's interpretation of Gandhi's concept of nonviolent protest.

A compelling account of the relationship between two major Civil Rights leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick explores their unique bond and the impact of their lives and tragic deaths in 1968, just sixty-two days apart. Drawing on interviews, oral histories, and FBI files, the book offers insight into their cooperation, differences, and mutual influence.

Bayard Rustin, the famed African American organizer, introduced Martin Luther King, Jr., to the precepts of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the birth of the Civil Rights Movement in 1955. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern Black protest.

This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.

In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across America. None was more visible—or resulted in more property damage, arrests, or federal troop involvement—than in Washington, DC, where thousands took to the streets in protest against racial inequality.