Monday, January 18 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To remember and honor Dr. King’s legacy and activism, consider diving deeper into the not-so-distant past of the civil rights movement or checking out materials about the continuing strides for racial justice.

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Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights

by Doug Jones

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Black America since MLK : and still I rise (DVD)

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The Colored Waiting Room: empowering the original and the new civil rights movements : conversations between an MLK Jr. confidant and a modern-day activist

by Kevin Shird and Nelson Maiden

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March (Book 1)

by John Lewis

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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A Reading of the Letter From Birmingham Jail

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Selma (DVD)

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The Sword and the Shield

by Peniel E. Joseph

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Why We Can’t Wait

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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