Jules Archer, They Had a Dream. New York: Viking, 1993. This volume contains biographies of four people who were central figures in black Americans' struggle against discrimination in the United States: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.

Robert Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum, eds., Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999. This is a collection of writings on bigotry, ranging from historical essays to articles by modern commentators.

Ed Clayton, Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. This biography of Dr. King takes the reader from his childhood through his leadership of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which ended with his assassination in 1968.

Kathlyn Gay, Neo-Nazis: A Growing Threat. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1997. This book examines the origins and activities of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. The scope of the white...