The Civil Rights Movement

Carrier, Jim. A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement. Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.

Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Fairclough, Adam. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000. New York: Viking, 2001.

Hyde, Samuel C. Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Mathis, Deborah. Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home. New York: Warner Books, 2002.

McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Myers, Samuel L. Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan-Bush Era. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

O'Reilly, Kenneth. Nixon's Piano : Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Pauley, Garth E. The Modern Presidency & Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Romero, Francine Sanders. Civil Rights Policymaking in the United States : An Institutional Perspective. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Salmond, John A. "My Mind Set on Freedom" : A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997.

Shull, Steven A. American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Sigler, Jay A. Civil Rights in America: 1500 to the Present. Detroit: Gale, 1998.

Thernstrom, Stephan, and Abigail M. Thernstrom. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Williams, Linda F. The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

Wright, George C. "The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, 1900-1970." In Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement, ed. W. Marvin Dulaney and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Published for University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996.

Julian Bond

Bond, Julian. Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Experiences. Atlanta: Voter Education Project Southern Regional Council, 1969.

________. "Black Elected Officials in the South." In The Black Man in American Politics: Three Views. Washington: Metropolitan Applied Research Center for the Institute for Black Elected Officials, 1969.

________. A Time to Speak, a Time to Act; the Movement in Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

________. "Civil Rights, Then and Now." In Academic Libraries: Achieving Excellence in Higher Education, ed. Thomas Kirk. Chicago: The Association of College and Research Libraries, 1992.

________. "A Participant's Commentary--the Voting Rights Act of 1965." In The Ethnic Moment: The Search for Equality in the American Experience, ed. Philip L. Fetzer. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

Bond, Julian, and Sondra Kathryn Wilson. Lift Every Voice and Sing : A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem: 100 Years, 100 Voices. New York: Random House, 2000.

Bond, Julian. "The Media and the Movement: Looking Back from the Southern Front." In Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle, ed. Brian Ward. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

________. "The Movement We Helped to Make." In Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now, ed. Alexander Bloom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Fayer, Steve, Henry Hampton, Julian Bond, WGBH, Blackside Inc., and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Eyes on the Prize. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1986.

Hayden, Robert C. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965: A Guide to the Series. Boston: Blackside, Inc., 1987.

Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Clark, Septima Poinsette, and Cynthia Stokes Brown. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Fleming, Cynthia Griggs. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Fradin, Dennis B., and Judith Bloom Fradin. Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration. New York: Clarion Books, 2003.

Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Murray, Pauli. Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom's Daughters : The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Rhodes, Jane. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Schultz, Debra L. Going South : Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Reference and Primary Source Materials

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. 7 vols., ed. Herbert Aptheker. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.

Reporting Civil Rights (Pt. 1. American Journalism, 1941-1963 Pt. 2. American Journalism, 1963-1973.). 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 2003.

Chafe, William Henry, and Behind the Veil Project. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.

Grant, Joanne. Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.

Jackson, Esther Cooper, and Constance Pohl. Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

Levy, Peter B. Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement : References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993.

Rural Organizing and Cultural Center (Holmes County, MS). Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South: An Oral History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.