Many of the most iconic, pivotal, and stirring moments of the Civil Rights Movement took place in Alabama. The titles on our Black History Month reading list below reveal many crucial steps on the path to justice and equality. To order any book on the list, use promo code BHM2025 for a 30% discount and free shipping.
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970
Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice
Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman
Writing American Military History
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Letters to the Sister I Never Knew
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
A Memoir in Black and White
One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement
Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Upcoming Titles
A Black Journalist's Journey
Black Resistance in Amateur Basketball and Football in Jim Crow Virginia
Fiction
A Novel
An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions