📚 Civil Rights

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with civil rights on their catalogue record, first published between 1859 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject civil rights in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 42,507 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	1859	465
Soul on ice	Eldridge Cleaver	1863	39
Notes of a Native Son	James Baldwin	1955	36
Constitutional law for a changing America	Lee Epstein	1992	34
John Brown	W. E. B. Du Bois	1909	32
Why We Can't Wait	Martin Luther King Jr.	1963	29
Along this way	James Weldon Johnson	1933	23
Negroes with Guns	Robert F. Williams	1962	22
Let the trumpet sound	Stephen B. Oates	1982	22
Nigger	Dick Gregory	1965	18
A call to conscience	Martin Luther King Jr.	2001	18
Las garantías individuales	Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela	1944	17
Race, racism, and American law	Derrick A. Bell	1970	16
Bearing the cross	David J. Garrow	1986	13
Civil rights and liberties in the 21st century	John C. Domino	2003	13
Parting the Waters	Taylor Branch	1988	12
Examples and Explanations for Constitutional Law	Alan Ides	2018	12
Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years	Toby Kleban Levine	1987	10
Freedom's children	Ellen Levine	1993	10
Coming of Age in Mississippi	Anne Moody	1968	9
Black Against Empire	Joshua Bloom	2013	9
So you want to talk about race	Ijeoma Oluo	2018	9
Stokely speaks	Kwame Ture	1971	8
Taking rights seriously	Ronald Dworkin	1977	8
In struggle	Clayborne Carson	1981	8
Eyes on the prize	Juan Williams	1987	8
African-American thought	Manning Marable	1996	8
Natural Right and History	Leo Strauss	1950	7
Martin Luther King, Jr	William Robert Miller	1968	7
No more lies;	Dick Gregory	1971	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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