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 BHM2024 for a 30% discount and free shipping.
Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
The Architectural Legacy of Wallace A. Rayfield
Pioneer Black Architect of Birmingham, Alabama
Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times
Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr.
The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut Jr.
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida
Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, A Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, A Sailor on the Deep, and A Sinner at the Cross
The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship
One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
Letters to the Sister I Never Knew
The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues
The Arthur Alexander Story
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
African American Oratory, 1787-1901
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804
The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987
The Birmingham Church Bombing Case
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country