Civil Rights Movement Bibliography
General History
Bass, Jack and Thomas Terrill. The American South Comes of Age.
Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis. Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963.
------. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965.
------. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
Carrier, Jim. A Traveler’s Guide to the Civil Rights Movement.
D’Angelo, Raymond. The American Civil Rights Movement.
Davies, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement.
Fairclough, Adam. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000.
Eagles, Charles, editor. The Civil Rights Movement in America.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: the History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black
America's Struggle for Equality.
Powledge, Fred. Free at Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It.
Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle and the
Awakening of a Nation.
Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality.
The Library of America. Reporting Civil Rights. Part One and Two.
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.
Oral History
Cluster, Dick, editor. They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee.
Erenrich, Susie, editor. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil
Rights Movement.
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC.
Hampton, Henry and Steve Faver. Voices of Freedom.
Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South.
Stoper, Emily. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Growth of Radicalism in a
Civil Rights Organization. (Includes published interviews)
Wigginton, Eliot. Refuse to Stand Silently By.
Autobiographies
Blackwell, Unita. Barefootin’: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom.
Campbell, Will D. Brother to a Dragonfly.
Campbell, Clarice. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South.
Cleaver, Eldridge. Eldridge Cleaver.
-------. Soul on Ice.
Curry, et al. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement.
Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart.
Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries.
Gray, Fred. Bus Ride to Justice.
Henry, Aaron with Constance Curry. Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning.
Horton, Myles. The Long Haul.
Hudson, Winson and Constance Curry. Mississippi Harmony
Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
Meredith, James. Three Years in Mississippi
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It.
Sellers, Cleveland. The River of No Return.
Organizations/Personalities
Adickes, Sandra E. The Legacy of a Freedom School.
Bass, Jack. Unlikely Heroes.
------. Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank Johnson.
Blake, John. Children of the Movement.
Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s.
Chappell, David. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.
Crawford, Vicki, Jacqueline Rouse, and Barbara Woods. Black Women in the Civil Rights
Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers.
Curry, Constance. A Fire Ever Burning
Mississippi Harmony.
Silver Rights.
Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.
Eagles, Charles. Outside Agitator.
Evers, Myrlie. For Us, the Living.
Evers-William, Myrlie and Manning Marable. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers.
Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Foner, Philip S., editor. The Black Panthers Speak.
Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries
Fosl, Catherine. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the
Cold War South.
Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Glisson, Susan M. The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement.
Greenberg, Polly. The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Child Development
Group of Mississippi.
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound.
Howie, Stephen S. The Bluffton Charge: One Preacher’s Struggle for Civil Rights.
Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom's Sake : The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Lewis, David. King: A Critical Autobiography
Manis, Andrew. A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Fred
Shuttlesworth.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughter’s: The Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement from
1830-1970.
Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
Nossiter, Adam. Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers.
Pearson, Hugh. The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in
America.
Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.
Reed, Roy. Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal.
Robbins, Louise S. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the
American Library
Till-Mobley, Mamie. Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America.
Tyson, Timothy B. RadioFree Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
Community Studies
Brophy, Alfred L. Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921.
Chafe, William. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black
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Colburn, David. Racial Change and Community Crisis.
Crosby, Emilye. A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Struggle for Freedom in Claiborne
County, Mississippi.
Doyle, William. An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
Eskew, Glenn T. But For Birmingham
Halberstam, David. The Children
Honey, Michael. Going Down the Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s
Last Campaign.
Jacoway, Elizabeth and C. Fred Williams, eds. Understanding the Little Rock Crisis
Martinez, Elizabeth Sutherland. Letters from Mississippi.
McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil
Rights Revolution.
Morris, Aldon. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for
Change.
Moye, J. Todd. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in
Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.
Murphy, Sara Alderman. Breaking the Silence: Little Rock’s Women’s Emergency Committee to
Open Our Schools, 1958-1963.
Noble, Phil. Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town.
Norrell, Robert. Reaping the Whirlwind.
Roy, Beth. Bitters in the Honey.
Intellectual History
King, Richard. Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom.
Music
Cultural Center of Social Change. The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert.
-----. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.
Reagon, Bernice Johnson and Sweet Honey in the Rock. We Who Believe in Freedom.
Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser. Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement
in Songs and Pictures.
Smithsonian/Folkways. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its
Songs.
Werner, Craig. A Change Is Gonna Come
Photography
Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
Moore, Charles. Powerful Days.
Spencer-Wood, Sophie. Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle
Precedents
Arneson, Eric. Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day.
Honey. Michael. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights.
Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.
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Religion
Findlay, James F., Jr. Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the
Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970.
Marsh, Charles. Beloved Community.
Marsh, Charles. God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights.
Newman, Mark. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi.
Findlay, James F. Church People in the Struggle : the National Council of Churches
and the Black Freedom Movement.
State Studies
Andrews, Kenneth T. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
and Its Legacy.
Bolton, Charles C. The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi,
1870-1980.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.
Fairclough, Adam. Race and Democracy in Louisiana.
Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow.
Kelley, Robin D.G. Hammer and Hoe.
Payne, Charles. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi
Freedom Struggle.
Web sites
www.crmvet.org
http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/Freedom_Riders/Home.html
http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/sovcomm.html
http://www.library.nashville.org/Newsevents/Civil%20Rights%20Room/civilrightsroom.htm
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sncc.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/
http://www.teachingforchange.org