The Reading Room
On Letter from Birmingham Jail
It was written in the margins of a newspaper, in a cell, in answer to clergymen who had called the protests untimely.
On Letter from Birmingham Jail
It was written in the margins of a newspaper, in a cell, in answer to clergymen who had called the protests untimely.
On Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch spent twenty-four years writing the history of the American civil-rights movement, and Parting the Waters, the first volume of his trilogy, is where the epic begins.
On Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch spent twenty-four years writing the history of the American civil-rights movement, and Parting the Waters, the first volume of his trilogy, is where the epic begins.
On The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson told the Great Migration as the epic it was, and in doing so recovered one of the largest and least understood events in American history.
On The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson told the Great Migration as the epic it was, and in doing so recovered one of the largest and least understood events in American history.
On The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander recast the national argument over criminal justice by naming what she argued it does.
On The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander recast the national argument over criminal justice by naming what she argued it does.
On Give Us the Ballot
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often treated as an ending, the triumphant close of the civil-rights movement's fight for the ballot.
On Give Us the Ballot
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is often treated as an ending, the triumphant close of the civil-rights movement's fight for the ballot.
On One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson set out to document voter suppression as deliberate policy rather than accident, and One Person, No Vote, published in 2018, makes the case with the precision of a...
On One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson set out to document voter suppression as deliberate policy rather than accident, and One Person, No Vote, published in 2018, makes the case with the precision of a...