My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King

The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.

To the Promised Land by Michael K. Honey

Goes beyond popularized views of Martin Luther King, Jr., to explore his committed advocacy of the poor, the working class and unions as well as his views about nonviolent resistance to all forms of oppression, particularly economic inequality. By the award-winning author of Going Down Jericho Road.

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

An impassioned work by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shares a heartfelt argument for equality and an end to racial discrimination that explains why the civil rights struggle is vital to the United States.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview

Ranging from an early 1961 interview in which King describes his reasons for joining the ministry, to a 1964 conversation with Robert Penn Warren, to his last interview, a timely volume pays tribute the man whose insistence on equality and peace defined the Civil Rights Movement and forever changed the course of American History.

King by Jonathan Eig

Drawing on recently declassified FBI files, this first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon reveals the courageous and often emotionally troubled man who demanded peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself, while showing how his demands for racial and economic justice remain just as urgent today.

When the Smoke Cleared by Kyla Sommers

Recounting a vital chapter in the struggle for racial equality, this gripping account of race, civil rights and rebellion in Washington, DC, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr, shaking the nation’s capital to its core, is also a story of activism, urban reimagination and political transformation.