Reddit reviews Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

I love this idea.

I'll add some of my own, and I hope others do too:

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
  
  
• The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement by Richard Valelley
  
  
• Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rodgers M. Smith
  
  
• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by WEB DuBois
  
  
• John Brown by WEB DuBois
  
  
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
  
  
• Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics by Michael Dawson
  
  
• The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters by James McPherson
  
  
• The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970 by Andrew S. Moore
  
  
• Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South by David Sears
  
  
• Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America by David Sears
  
  
• Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz
  
  
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow
  
  
• Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution by Barry Levy
  
  
• Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South by Kristina Du Rocher
  
  
• Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972 by Robert Mickey
  
  
• The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America by Ronald Brownstein