| Ralph Abernathy | And the Walls Came Tumbling Down An Autobiography | 
| Sandra Adickes | Legacy of a Freedom School (Freedom Summer) | 
| Anthony Amerson | Great Courage (Macon County, AL) | 
| Dr. William Anderson | Autobiographies of a Black Couple of the Greatest Generation | 
| Thomas Armstrong... | Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for ... | 
| D'Army Bailey | The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern ...  (Memphis) | 
| Daisy Bates | The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir (Little Rock) | 
| Joe Bateman | A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before Remembering the Movement in Marks, MS | 
| Unita Blackwell ... | Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom (Mississippi) | 
| Charles Bonner | Tip of the Arrow: the Selma Student Nonviolent Movement... | 
| Amelia Boynton | Bridge Across Jordan: The Story of the Struggle ... in Selma | 
| H. Rap Brown | Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin | 
| Cathy Cade | My Family The Movement & Me (Southwest GA) | 
| Carmichael & Thellwell | Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael | 
| J.L. Chestnut... | Black In Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut (Selma) | 
| MacArthur Cotton | Mississippi's Black Cotton | 
| Jim Dann | Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers: Memories of Mississippi ... | 
| Martin Deppe | Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 | 
| David Dennis | The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride | 
| Gwendolyn Dennis-Mack | If Anybody Should Ask You ... This Is What Happened: A Memoir | 
| Doris Derby | A Civil Rights Journey | 
| Patricia Due | Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir ... (Florida) | 
| David Dukes | I Have Never Lived in America (Florida) | 
| Virginia Durr | Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr | 
| Charles Evers | Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story | 
| James Farmer | Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Jo Freeman | At Berkeley in the Sixties: Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 | 
| Carolyn Goodman | My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice (Mississippi) | 
| Fred Gray | Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System: ... (Alabama) | 
| LuLu Westbrook Griffin | Memoirs Of A Revolution Experience Through Poetry And Poems | 
| Anthony J Harris | Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round:, A Coming of age story ... | 
| John J. Hartman | Marching in Montgomery (1965) | 
| Bruce Hartford | "Troublemaker" Memories of the Freedom Movement | 
| Charles Haynie | A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of ... | 
| Andrew Heidelberg | The Norfolk 17: A Personal Narrative on Desegregation in Norfolk, ... | 
| Dorothy Height | Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir | 
| Henry & Curry | Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning | 
| Endesha Holland | From the Mississippi Delta | 
| Geraldine Hollis | March Memories: A True Reflection of Time, Then and Now! | 
| Faith Holsaert | Year Forever in my Veins | 
| Faith Holsaert | Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Family | 
| Peter Honigsberg | Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (Louisiana) | 
| Myles Horton | The Long Haul: An Autobiography | 
| Joseph Howell | Civil Rights Journey (Georgia) | 
| Charlayne Hunter | To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Rodney Hurst | It Was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke: A Personal Account ... | 
| Hudson & Curry | Mississippi Harmony, Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (Mississippi) | 
| Marione Ingram | The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights ... | 
| Richie Jean Jackson | The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement | 
| Don Jelinek | White Lawyer, Black Power, Mississippi and Alabama | 
| Rev. Aaron Johnson | Man from Macedonia: My Life of Service, Struggle, ... (North Carolina) | 
| Mary King | Freedom Song | 
| Sherie Labedis | You Came Here to Die, Didn't You (Memoir of SCOPE volunteer) | 
| Bernard LaFayette | In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma | 
| Rev. Richard Leonard | Call to Selma | 
| John Lewis | Walking With the Wind, 1998 | 
| John Lewis | Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change | 
| John Lewis | Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation | 
| John Lewis | March: Books One, Two, and Three | 
| John Lewis | Run: Book One | 
| Clara Luper | Behold the Walls | 
| Dora McDonald | Sharing the Dream: Martin Luther King, the Movement, and Me | 
| Chuck McDew | Tell the Story: A Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Ernest McMillan | Standing | 
| Carolyn Maull McKinstry | While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age ... | 
| James Meredith | Three Years in Mississippi | 
| Bill Monnie | The Lake Effect | 
| Anne Moody | Coming of Age in Mississippi | 
| Sara Parsons | From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: Memoir of White ... | 
| Melba Patillo | Warriors Don't Cry: ... Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High | 
| Gwendolyn Patton | My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement | 
| James Peck | Freedom Ride | 
| Edward H. Peeples | Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism | 
| John Perdew | Education of a Harvard Guy: Footsoldier in the CRM (Georgia) | 
| Charles Person | Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider | 
| Vera Pigee | The Struggle of Struggles (Mississippi) | 
| Charles Prickett | Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer | 
| Dick Reavis | If White Kids Die, Memories of a Civil Rights ... (Demopolis AL) | 
| John Reynolds | The Fight for Freedom; A Memoir of My Years ... (SCLC) | 
| Matt Rinaldi | Fire at the Freedom House | 
| Jo Ann Robinson | The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It | 
| Judith Rollins | All is Never Said: Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (Louisiana) | 
| John Scott | Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana | 
| Carol Seay | Up Above My Head: I See Freedom in the Air | 
| Solomon Seay | Jim Crow and Me: Stories from My Life as a CR Lawyer (Alabama) | 
| Cleveland Sellers | River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the ... | 
| Jordana Shakoor | Civil Rights Childhood (Mississippi) | 
| Carol Ruth Silver | Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes From Parchman Prison | 
| Zoharah & Michael Simmons | Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey | 
| SNCC women | Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC | 
| Kent Spriggs | More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Continuing the Struggle | 
| John A. Stokes | Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me | 
| Nancy Stoller | Southern White Girl Seeks Social Change: A Twentieth Century Memoir | 
| Tracy Sugarman | Stranger At the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi (Freedom Summer) | 
|  | We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who ... (Freedom Summer) | 
| Mary Swope | My Summer Vacation: 1965 (SCOPE) | 
| Joyce Russell Terrell | A Blues Song of My Own (School integrator) | 
| Emmarene Kaigler Streeter | Unlawfully Incarcerated At Age Thirteen | 
| Brenda Travis | Mississippi's Exiled Daughter | 
| Gil Venable | Mississippi & After: A Life in Equal Justice Law | 
| C.T. Vivian | It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior | 
| Carlotta Walls | A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock ... | 
| Webb & West | Selma, Lord, Selma | 
| LuLu Westbrooks | Freedom Is Not Free, 45 Days in the Leesburg Stockade... (Georgia) | 
| Hollis Watkins | Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a Movement Man (Mississippi) | 
| Dr. Sidney Eugene Welch | Soldiers of Martin Luther King: A Memoir from the Trenches of the CRM | 
| Judith Frieze Wright | Acts of Resistance: A Freedom Rider Looks Back on the CRM | 
| Bob Zellner. | The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner ... | 
 
| Many veterans | Mississippi Black Paper (Affidavits of violence & police repression) | 
| Julian Bond | A Time to Speak, A Time to Act: the Movement in Pictures | 
|  | Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table (History & analysis of the Movement) | 
|  | Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement | 
| Margaret Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners | 
| Anne Braden | The Southern Freedom Movement in Perspective | 
| Stokely Carmichael... | Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (in America) | 
| Guy & Candy Carawan | Sing for Freedom: the Story of the CRM Through its Songs | 
| Charles Cobb | On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail | 
|  | This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the CRM ... | 
| Constance Curry | Silver Rights (Mississippi) | 
| Curry & others | Deep in Our Hearts, Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement | 
| DeBerry & Futorian | Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country ~ The Benton County Civil Rights Movement | 
| Tom Dent | The Free Southern Theater: A Documentary of the South's ... | 
|  | Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Armand Derfner | Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court | 
| Susan Erenrich (ed) | Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi ... | 
| Myrlie Evers | The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life ... | 
|  | For Us the Living (Medgar Evers) | 
| Stuart Ewen | Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality | 
| Charles Fager | Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South | 
|  | Uncertain Resurrection: Dr. King's Poor Peoples' Campaign, Washington 1968 | 
| Mary Lou Finley | The Chicago Freedom Movement: MLK and Civil Rights Activism in the North | 
| Jim Forman | The Making of Black Revolutionaries | 
| James Forman | Sammy Younge, The First Black College Student to Die ... (Alabama) | 
| Hardy Frye | Black Parties and Political Power: A Case Study (Alabama) | 
| Futorian & DeBerry | Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country ~ The Benton County Civil Rights Movement | 
| Deric Gilliard | Living in the Shadows of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and Sheroes ... | 
| Maria Gitin | This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from .. (Wilcox Co. AL) | 
| Joanne Grant | Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses | 
|  | Ella Baker: Freedom Bound | 
| Polly Greenberg | The Devil Has Slippery Shoes; a Biased Biography of the CDGM | 
| Vincent Harding | Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement | 
|  | The Movement Makes Us Human | 
|  | Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero | 
|  | There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America | 
| Bruce Hartford | The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | 
|  | Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 | 
|  | The Selma Voting Rights Struggle and March to Montgomery | 
| Henry Hampton | Voices of Freedom: An Oral History ... ("Eyes on the Prize" interviews) | 
| Matt Herron... | This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Len Holt | An Act of Conscience (1963 Danville VA) | 
|  | The Summer That Didn't End: The Story of the Mississippi ... | 
| Langston Hughes | Fight for freedom; the story of the NAACP | 
| Clarence Jones | Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that ... | 
| Gilbert Jonas | Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism ... | 
| Si Kahn | Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, ... | 
| Martin Luther King | The Autobiography of Martin Luther King (Compiled) | 
|  | The Measure of a Man (MLK's early sermons) | 
|  | Strength to Love (Selection of sermons) | 
|  | Stride Toward Freedom (Montgomery bus boycott) | 
|  | The Trumpet of Conscience (Massey Lectures) | 
|  | Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? | 
|  | Why We Can't Wait (Birmingham Campaign) | 
| James Laue | Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962 | 
| Paul Lautner | Our Sixties | 
| James Lawson | Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom | 
| Julius Lester | Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! | 
| John Lewis | Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change, 2012 | 
| John Lewis | Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation, 2021 | 
| Peter Lissovoy | The Great Pool Jump: & Other Stories from the CRM in SW Georgia | 
| James Loewen | Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America | 
| Debbie Louis | And We Are Not Saved: A History of the Movemen As People | 
| Danny Lyon | Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement | 
| James Marshall | Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi ... | 
|  | Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964 ... | 
| Elizabeth Martinez (ed.) | Letters From Mississippi: ... of the 1964 Freedom Summer | 
| Robert B McKersie | A Decisive Decade: An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement ... | 
| Jon Meacham (ed.) | Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement | 
| Bill Monnie | Selma: And It's Aftermath | 
| Moses & Cobb | Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project | 
| Martin Oppenheimer | The Sit-In Movement of 1960 | 
|  | The Rise and Fall of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 
| John Salter | Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism | 
| SNCC women | Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC | 
| Willy Siegel-Levanthal | The SCOPE of Freedom: The Leadership of Hosea Williams With ... | 
| Sue Sojourner | Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership ... (Holmes County, MS) | 
| Alan Venable | Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer | 
| C.T. Vivian | Black Power and the American Myth | 
| Molly Lynn Watt | On Wings of Song: A Journey into the Civil Rights Era (Tennessee) | 
| Robert F. Williams | Negroes With Guns (Monroe, NC) | 
| Marion Wright | The Sit-in Movement: Progress Report and Prognosis | 
| Andrew Young | An Easy Burden: the CRM and the Transformation of America | 
| Howard Zinn | Howard Zinn On Race | 
|  | SNCC: The New Abolitionists |