Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 20 is  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring the memory and legacy of the Civil Rights Movement leader, activist, and minister Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BCPL will be open that day. We will be playing a popular movie about his activism and leadership during the Civil Rights Movement on January 20 at 2:30pm. You can also celebrate his life with one of these books from our adult collection about Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement. Don’t forget to check out our book and movie display about MLK and the Civil Rights Movement!          

  • Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement by Dan Abrams
  • Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses by John J. Blake
  • Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Clayborne Carson
  • King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  • Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity by Catherine Ellis
  • A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard
  • Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church by Edward Gilbreath
  • We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
  • Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election by Stephen Kendrick
  • The Radical King by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
  • Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steve Levingston
  • The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age by Patrick Parr
  • Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder
  • Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours by Joseph Rosenbloom
  • Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

 


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