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Dr. King Week of Service & Reflection: Selected Resource List

January 10, 2024

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, the Drexel University Libraries presents this newly annotated booklist curated in collaboration with the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement.

 

This carefully selected collection pays homage to the enduring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offers a diverse array of perspectives on civil rights, social justice, and the ongoing pursuit of equity. The list also includes access to a host of titles just recently added to the Libraries’ collection!

 

As we commemorate MLK Day, we also extend an invitation to engage in the Lindy Center’s Dr. King Week of Service & Reflection to discover meaningful opportunities to contribute to our community and continue the work of Dr. King. And we hope you’ll dive into the pages of this thought-provoking content as we collectively celebrate and uphold the values that Dr. King passionately championed!

 

In Print

  1. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  2. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement by Septima Poinsette Clark
  3. Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa by Lewis V. Baldwin
  4. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We Shall Overcome” by Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song by Debbie Levy 
  6. The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee 
  7. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
  8. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.
  9. Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain by Clelia O. Rodríguez
  10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  11. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  12. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
  13. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  14. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  15. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  16. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  17. Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
  18. Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. – found in A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  19. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC by Faith S. Holsaert

 

Online


  1. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
  2. All About Love: New Visions by bell hook
  3. The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Jon N. Hale
  4. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
  5. The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch
  6. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  7. “Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde” by Audre Lorde
  8. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
  9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  10. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney
  11. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
  12. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
  13. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  14. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  15. If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement by Dorothy F. Cotton