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By Oprah Winfrey — 2019

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates shares how it felt to have Oprah pick his novel “The Water Dancer” for her book club.

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2021
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard (editors)
2002
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was a husband, a father, a preacher—and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century’s most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (editor)
2001
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The Measure of a Man

In August 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached two sermons—"What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a Complete Life"—at the first National Conference on Christian Education of the United Church of Christ at Purdue University.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2013
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World (Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

“His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet.”* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, “I have a dream . . .

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), James Washington (editor)
1992
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)
2010
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land.

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Martin Luther King Jr., James Washington (editor)
2003
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No Future without Forgiveness

The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors.

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Desmond Tutu
2000
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We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted.

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Liz Theoharis (editor), William J. Barber II (foreword)
2021
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