Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Revised by Jenny Kaemmerlen, intern, October 2005

Civil Rights

Books

 
Abernathy, Ralph. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: an Autobiography. New York: Harper 
 & Row, 1989. (E185.97A13A31989) 

Abzug, Robert H., and Stephen E. Mailish, eds. New Perspectives on Race and Slavery In America:

Essays In Honor Of Kenneth M. Stampp. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1986.

(E441 .N5 1986)

 
Allen, Robert L. Black Awakening in Capitalist America: an Analytic History. Garden City, NY: 
 Anchor Books, 1970. (E185.615A41970) 
 
Anderson, Alan B. and George W. Pickering. Confronting the Color Line: the Broken Promise of the 
 Civil Rights Movement in Chicago. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. 
 (F548.9N4A531986) 
 
Asbeck, Frederik Mari, Baron Van, ed. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its 
 Predecessors (1679-1948). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1949. (JC571A75) 

Ashmore, Harry S. Civil Rights and Wrongs: A Memoir of a Race And Politics 1944-1994.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. (E185.615A841994)

 
Baldwin, Lewis V. Freedom Is Never Free: a Biographical Portrait of Edgar Daniel Nixon.  Atlanta, 
 GA: A. Woodson, 1992. (E185.97N59B341992) 
 
Barrett, Paul M. The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America.  New York: Dutton, 1999. 
 (KF228.M86B371999)
 
Beifuss, Joan Turner. At the River I Stand: Memphis, the 1968 Strike, and Martin Luther King.
 Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (HD5325S25721968M461989) 
 
Belknap, Michal R. Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in 
 the Post-Brown South.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. (KF4757B3461987) 
 
Bell, Derrick A. And We Are Not Saved: the Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. New York: Basic 
 Books, 1987. (E185.615B391987) 
 
Bennett, Jr., Lerone et al. Ebony Pictorial History of Black America. Chicago: Johnson Pub., 1971.
 (E185 .E23 V.2- V.3) 
 
Berry, Mary Frances, and John W. Blassingame. Long Memory: the Black Experience in America. 
 New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. (E185.5B47) 
 
Blaustein, Albert P. and Robert L. Zangrando, eds. Civil Rights and the American Negro: a 
 Documentary History.  New York: Washington Square Press, 1968. (E185.61B51968) 
 
Bloom, Jack M. Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 
 1987. (E185.615B5571987) 
 
Blumberg, Rhoda Goldstein. Civil Rights: the 1960s Freedom Struggle. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 
 1984. (E185.615B5581984)  
 
Bolick, Clint. Changing Course: Civil Rights at the Crossroads. New Brunswick: Transaction 
 Books, 1988. (JC599U5B5571988) 
 

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Water: America In The King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and

Schuster, 1988. (E185.61B79141988)

 
Brink, William. Black and White: a Study of U.S. Racial Attitudes Today. New York: Simon & 
 Schuster, 1967. (E185.615B7) 
 
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. (F334.M753 P373 2000) 

Button, James W. Blacks and Social Change: Impact of The Civil Rights Movement In Southern

Communities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. (E185.92B881989)

 
Burk, Robert Fredrick. The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. Knoxville: University 
 of Tennessee Press, 1984. (E185.61B9551984) 
 
Cable, George Washington. The Negro Question: a Selection of Writings on Civil Rights in the South. 
 Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. (E185.61C191958)  

Cagin, Seth. We Are Not Afraid: the Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil 
 Rights Campaign for Mississippi. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. (E185.93M6C341991) 
 
Callahan, Nancy. The Freedom Quilting Bee. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
 (NK9112C341987) 
 
Campbell, Will D. Forty Acres and a Goat: a Memoir. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 1986. 
 (E185.98C36A31986) 
 
Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: the Politics of Liberation in America.
 New York: Vintage Books, 1967. (E185.615C321967b) 
 
Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years: a Reader and Guide. 
 New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1987. (E185.615E941987) 
 
Chafe, William Henry. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black 
 Struggle for Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (F264G8C47) 
 
Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History (4th: 1978: University of Mississippi). Have We 
Overcome?: Race Relations since Brown: Essays. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. 
(E185.61C531978) 
 
Chestnut, J. L. Black in Selma: the Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut Jr. New York: Farrar, Straus and 
 Giroux, 1990. (KF373C389A31990) 
 
Ciment, James. Atlas of African-American History. New York: Facts on File, 2001. (E185 .C55 2001) 
 
Clark, Septima Poinsette. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. ed. 
 Cynthia Stokes Brown. Navarro, CA: Wild Trees Press, 1986. (E185.615C5971986) 
 
Cohen, Steven, ed. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, a Sourcebook. 
 Boston: Blackside, Inc., 1987. (E185.61E941987) 

Couto, Richard A. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Pursuit Of Racial Justices

In The Rural South. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. (E185.92C681991)

Crawford, Vickie L., Barbara Woods, and Jacqueline Rouse, eds. Women In The Civil Rights

Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. New York: Carlson

Pub. 1990. (E185.86B5431990v16)

Cuthbert-Kerr, Simon. “‘You Don’t Have To Make the X For Me, Because I Can Write My Own Name’:

Septima Clark, Citizenship Education, And Voter Registration In The South Carolina Sea Islands,

1954-1963.” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 56-80.

Dees, Morris. A Season for Justice: The Life And Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. (KF373D43A31991)

 
Dent, Thomas C. Southern Journey: a Return to the Civil Rights Movement. Athens: University of 
 Georgia Press, 2001. (E185.615 .D47 2001) 
 
Dittmer, John. Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois 
 Press, 1994. (E185.93M6D581994) 
 

Dittmer, John, and W. Marvin Dulaney. Essays On The American Civil Rights Movement.

College Station: Published for University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press,

1993. (E185.615D581993)

Drago, Edmund L. “The Black Women of Charleston As Agents Of Change And Preservers Of The

African American Heritage.” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 81-92.

 
Drum Major. Atlanta, GA: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1971. (E185.61 D83 V.1)
 
DuBose, Sonny. The Road to Brown: the Leadership of a Soldier of the Cross, Rev. J.A. DeLaine 
 Recollections of Courage. Orangeburg, SC: Williams Pub., 2002. (F277.C7 D83 2002) 

Durham, Michael S. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. New York:

Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1991. (E185.61D941991)

 
Dye, Thomas R. The Politics of Equality. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. (E185.61D992) 
 
Eagles, Charles W., ed. The Civil rights Movement in America: Essays. Jackson: University Press of 
 Mississippi, 1986. (E185.615C5851986)  
 
Eagles, Charles W. Jonathan Daniels and Race Relations: the Evolution of a Southern Liberal. 
 Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. (F231D26E341982) 
 
Edds, Margaret. Free at Last: What Really Happened When Civil Rights Came to Southern Politics. 
 Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987. (E185.92E341987) 

Estes, Steve. “‘I Am Somebody’: The Charleston Hospital Strike of 1969.” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 8-32.

 
Fairclough, Adam. Race & Democracy: the Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: 
 University of Georgia Press, 1995. (E185.93L6F351995) 
 
Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart: an Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: 
 Arbor House, 1985. (E185.97F37A351985) 
 
Fifteen Years Ago: Rural Alabama Revisited. Washington, D.C.: United States Commission on Civil 
 Rights, 1983. (E185.93A3F51983) 
 
Fleming, John. The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: a Historical Justification for Affirmative Action 
 for Blacks in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Published for ISEP by Howard 
 University Press, 1976. (LC2781F571976) 
 
Franklin, John Hope. Racial Equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
 (E185F72) 

Free At Last: A History Of The Civil Rights Movement And Those Who Died In The Struggle.

Montgomery: Civil Rights Education Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, 1989.

(E185.61F8371989)

Garrow, David J., ed. Atlanta, Georgia, 1960-1961: Sit-ins and Student Activism. Garrow.Brooklyn, 
 N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1989. (F294A89N4181989) 
 

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Southern Christian

Leadership Conference. New York: W. Morrow, 1986. (E185.97K5G361986)

 
Garrow, David J., ed. Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: the Black struggle for Civil Rights. 
 Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (F334B69N4171989)  
 
Garrow, David J., ed. Chicago 1966: Open Housing Marches, Summit Negotiations, and Operation 
 Breadbasket. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (F548.9N4C461989) 
 

Garrow, David J.,ed. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader, Theologian, Orator. Brooklyn:

Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.97K5M331989)

 
Garrow, David J., ed. St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-1964: Mass Protest and Racial Violence. Brooklyn: 
 Carlson Pub., 1989. (F319S2S151989) 
 
Garrow, David J., ed. The Walking City: the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956. Brooklyn: 
 Carlson Pub., 1989. (F334M79N481989) 

Garrow, David J., ed. We Shall Overcome: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States In The

1950’s and 1960’s. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.61W331989)

 
Gavins, Raymond. The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 
 1884-1970. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. (F234.R553 H354 1993) 
 
Gentile, Thomas. March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.: New Day Publications, 
 1983. (F200G451983) 

Golden, Marita. And Do Remember Me. New York: Doubleday, 1992. (PS3557O3593A841992)

 
Goldfield, David R. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the 
 Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. (E185.61G5841990) 
 
Goldwin, Robert A., ed. 100 Years of Emancipation. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. 
 (E185.61G621964a) 
 
Good, Paul. The Trouble I've Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement. Washington: Howard 
 University Press, 1975. (E185.615G661975) 
 

Gordon, Asa H. Sketches of Negro Life And History In South Carolina. Columbia: University

of South Carolina, 1971. (E185.93S7G661971)

 
Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972. 
 New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. (JC599U5G6851990) 
 
Greenberg, Jack. Race Relations and American Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
 (KF4755A7G7) 
 
Gregory, Dick, and James R. McGraw, ed. Write Me In! New York: Bantam Books, 1968. 
 (E185.615G73) 
 
Gwanltney, Langston, ed. Drylongso: a Self-Portrait of Black America. New York: Random House, 
 1980. (E185.86D77) 
 
Haines, Herbert H. Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954-1970. Knoxville: University 
 of Tennessee Press, 1988. (E185.615H251988) 

Hampton, Henry. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History Of The Civil Rights Movement From The

1950s Through The 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. (E185.61H2241990)

Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan. ed. Raymond

Smock. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. (E185.97W4H361988)

Harris, Janet. The Long Freedom Road: the Civil Rights Story. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

 (E185.61H27) 

Haskins, James. The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1992.
 (E185.97.K5 H33 1992) 
 
Haskins, James. The March on Washington. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. (F200 .H35 1993) 
 
Hayden, Robert C. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, a Guide to the Series. 
 Boston, MA: Blackside, Inc., 1987. (E185.61H391987) 
 
Hill, Robert A., ed. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.
 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. (E185.97G3M361983 (V1-V7)) 
 
Holley, Joseph W. You Can't Build a Chimney from the Top. ed. Russell W. Ramsey. Lanham, MD: 
 University Press of America, 1992. (E185.97.H7 A3 1992) 
 
Horton, Aimee Isgrig. The Highlander Folk School: a History of Its Major Programs, 1932-1961. 
 Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (LC5301M65H671989) 
 

Hoyt, Robert G. Martin Luther King, Jr. Waukesha: Country Beautiful Foundation (distributed

by Rand McNally), 1970. (E185.97.K5H61970)

 
Hughes Wright, Roberta. The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Southfield, MI: Charro Press, 
 1991. (E185.61W981991) 
 
Huie, William Bradford. Three Lives for Mississippi. New York: WCC Books, 1965. (F347.N4 H8) 
 
Jacobs, Donald M. The Rise and Struggles of American Civil Rights. Chicago: United States History 
 Society, 1970. (JC599U5J23) 
 
Jacoway, Elizabeth, and David R. Colburn, eds. Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton 
 Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. (E185.92S6831982) 
 
Johnson, Lyman T. The Rest of the Dream: the Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson. Lexington: 
 University Press of Kentucky, 1988. (E185.97J693A31988) 
 
Jones, Beverly Washington. Quest for Equality: the Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 
 1863-1954. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1990. (E185.86B5431990v13)  
 
Jones, Charles E., ed. The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered). Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998.
 (E185.615 .B43 1998) 
 
Jones, Jacqueline. American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor. New York: W.W. 
 Norton, 1999.  (E185.8 .J767 1999) 
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual 
 Properties Management in association with Warner Books, 1998. (E185.97.K5 A52 1998) 
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope: the Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. ed. 
 James Melvin Washington. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. (E185.97K5A251986) 
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Boston:  Beacon Press, 
 1968. (E185.615K51968) 
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can't Wait. New York: Signet Classic, 2000. (E185.61 .K54 1964c) 
 

King, Richard. Civil Rights and the Idea Of Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

(E185.61K551992)

 
Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race. Knoxville: University of 
 Tennessee Press, 1980. (E185.6K5481980) 
 
Klibaner, Irwin. Conscience of a Troubled South: the Southern Conference Educational Fund.
 Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (LC212.522S7K581989) 
 
Konvitz, Milton Ridvas. A Century of Civil Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
 (KF4755Z9K62) 
 
Laue, James H. Direct Action and Desegregation, 1960-1962: Toward a Theory of the Rationalization 
 of Protest. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (E185.61L351989) 

Lanker, Brian. I Dream A World: Portraits Of Black Women Who Changed America. New York:

Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1989. (E185.86L3551989)

 
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: an African American 
 Anthology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. (E184.6 .L48 2000) 
 
Levy, Eugene. James Weldon Johnson, Black Leader, Black Voice. Chicago: University of Chicago 
 Press, 1976. (PS3519O2625Z71976) 

Lewis, David L. W.E.B. DuBois—Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919. New York: H. Holt, 1993.

(E185.97D73L481993)

 
Little, Priscilla Cortelyou, and Robert C. Vaughn, eds. A New Perspective: Southern Women's Cultural 
 History from the Civil War to Civil Rights. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the 
 Humanities, 1989. (HQ1438A13N481989) 

Lipsitz, George. A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry And The Culture Of Opposition. Philadelphia:

Temple University Press, 1988. (E185.97P49L571988)

 
Logan, Rayford Whittingham. The Negro in American Life and Thought: the Nadir, 1877-1901. New 
 York: Dial Press, 1954. (E185.61L641954) 
 
Longenecker, Stephen L. Selma's Peacemaker: Ralph Smeltzer's Civil Rights Mediation. 
 Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. (F334S4L661987) 
 
Lord, Walter. The Past That Would Not Die. New York: Pocket Books, 1967. (E185.61L671967) 
 

Lowe, Stephen. “Brown on Trial: School Desegregation in Charleston, South Carolina.” The Avery

Review 3 (Spring 2000): 33-55.

 
Lowery, Charles D., and John F. Marszalek, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: from 
 Emancipation to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. (E185.61E541992) 
 
Luker, Ralph. The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912. Chapel 
 Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. (E185.61L851991) 
 
Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre. The Making of a Southerner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
 (F215 .L86 1991) 
 

Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: Published for Duke

University by University of North Carolina Press, 1992. (E185.615L961992)

Manis, Andrew Michael. Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil

Rights, 1947-1957. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. (E185.61M291987)

 
Marable, Manning. Freedom: a Photographic History of the African American Struggle. New York: 
 Phaidon, 2002. (E185.615 .M2792 2002) 

Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968. Fort Worth: Sepia Publishing Co., 1968. (E185.97K5M321968)

 
Mars, Florence, and Lynn Eden. Witness in Philadelphia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University 
 Press, 1977. (F349P47M37) 
 
Mays, Benjamin E. Born to Rebel: an Autobiography. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
 (LA2317M36A31987) 

McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. (E185.93M6M281988)

 
McCray, Carrie Allen. Freedom's Child: the Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter. Chapel 
 Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. (E185.97.A36 M38 1998) 
 
McDonnell, Robert W. The Papers of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1803 (1877-1963) 1979: a Guide. Ann Arbor, 
 MI: University Microfilms, 1986. (E185.97D73M351986) 
 
McKissick, Floyd B. Three-Fifths of a Man. New York: Macmillan, 1969. (E185M251969) 
 
Medley, Keith. We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson.  Gretna, LA: Pelican Pub. Co., 2003. 
 (KF223P56M432003)
 
Milton, Joyce. Marching to Freedom: the Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Dell Pub. 
 Co., 1987. (E185.97.K5 M52 1987) 
 
Myerson, Michael. Nothing Could Be Finer. New York: International Publishers, 1978. 
 (E185.93N6M931978)  
 
National Convention of Colored Men (1864: Syracuse, N.Y.). Proceedings of the National Convention 
 of Colored Men, Held in the City of Syracuse, N.Y., October 4,5,6, and 7, 1864 ; with the 
 Bill of Wrongs and Rights, and the Address to the American People. Philadelphia: Historic 
 Publications, 1969. (E185.5 .N289 1864b) 
 
Nieman, Donald G. Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the 
 Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. (E185.61N51991) 

Nelson, Jack, and Jack Bass. The Orangeburg Massacre. New York: World Pub. Co., 1970.

(F279O6N41984)

 
Norrell, Robert J. Reaping the Whirlwind: the Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee. New York: 
 Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1985. (F334T96N671985) 
 
Nye, Russel Blaine. Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy, 1830-1860.
 East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1949. (JC599U5N9) 
 
Opening Doors: Perspectives on Race Relations in Contemporary America. Tuscaloosa: University of 
 Alabama Press, 1991. (E185.615O641991) 
 
Oppenheimer, Martin. The Sit-in Movement of 1960. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989.  (E185.61O671989) 

O’Reilly, Kenneth. Black Americans: The FBI Files. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1994. (E185.615O731994)

 
Parks, Rosa, and Jim Haskins. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992. 
 (F334M753P371992) 
 
Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: a Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy. 
 New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (KF4155 .P38 2001) 
 
Perry, Mark. Lift Up Thy Voice: the Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights 
 Leaders. New York: Viking, 2001. (E185.98.A1 P47 2001)

Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1990. (E185.97R27P441990)

 
Pride, Armistead S. and Jack Lyle, eds. The Black American and the Press. Los Angeles: W. Ritchie 
 Press, 1968. (E185.615B53) 

Pyatt, Sherman E. Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood

Press, 1986. (E185.97K5P91986)

 
Race Relations in the USA, 1954-68. New York: Scribner, 1970. (E185.61R221970) 
 
Rayford W. Logan, ed. What the Negro Wants. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 
 2001. (E185.61 .W57 2001) 
 
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: 
 New Press in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies of 
 Duke University, 2001. (E185.61 .R4 2001) 
 
Reed-Gordon, Annette, ed. Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. New York: Oxford 
 University Press, 2002. (KF385A4R332002)
 
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who Started it: the 
Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. ed. David J. Garrow. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. (F334M79N461987) 
 
Rothschild, Mary Aickin. A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern 
Freedom Summers, 1964-1965. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. (E185.93M6R671982)  
 
Rule, Peter. Nokukhanya, Mother of Light. South Africa: The Grail, 1993. (DT1949N65R851993)
 
Sales, William W. From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro 
 American Unity. Boston, MA: South End Press, c1994.  (BP223Z8L57721994 ) 
 
Salmond, John A. The Conscience of a Lawyer: Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 1899-
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Schulke, Flip. King Remembered. New York: Norton, 1986. (E185.97K5S381986) 
 

Sellers, Cleveland. The River of No Return: Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and

Death of SNCC. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. (E185.97.S44 A3 1990)

 
Sigelman, Lee. Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality: the Dream Deferred. New York: 
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Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: the Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue. New 
 York: Oxford University Press, 1978. (E185.61S546 V.1) 
 
Sobel, Lester A, ed. Civil Rights. New York: Facts on File, 1967-1973. (E185.61 .S66 V.2) 
 
Spero, Sterling Denhard and Abram L. Harris. The Black Worker: the Negro and the Labor 
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Stang, Alan. It's Very Simple: the True Story of Civil Rights. Boston: Western Islands, 1965. 
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State Equal Rights' Convention of the Colored People of Pennsylvania (1865: Harrisburg, Pa.) 
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 Held in the City of Harrisburg, February 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1865, Together with a Few of 
 the Arguments Presented Suggesting the Necessity for Holding the Convention, and an 
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Stoper, Emily. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Growth of Radicalism

in a Civil Rights Organization. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub. 1989. (E185.61S8761989)

 
Suggs, Henry Lewis. P.B. Young, Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South, 
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Taulbert, Clifton L. Watching Our Crops Come In. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
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Thompson, Mildred I. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: an Exploratory Study of an American Black 
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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Confronting Racial Isolation in Miami: a Report of the 
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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Survey of School Desegregation in the Southern and 
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United States Commission on Civil Rights. Twenty Years after Brown: Equal Opportunity in Housing, 
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United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Voting Rights Act: Unfulfilled Goals. Washington, DC: 
 The Commission, 1981. (KF4755A855) 
 
Walker, Alice. Meridian. New York: Pocket Books, 1986. (PS3573A425M41986) 
 

Watters, Pat. Down to Now: Reflections On The Southern Civil Rights Movement. New York:

Pantheon, 1971. (E185.61W26)

 
Weisbrot, Robert. Father Divine and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Urbana: University of Illinois 
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Whalen, Charles W., and Barbara Whalen. The Longest Debate: a Legislative History of the 1964 Civil 
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White, Walter. Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch. Chicago: University of Notre Dame 
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Wilkins, Roger W. A Man's Life: an Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. 
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Bryant, Flora Renda. “An Examination of the Social Activism of Pauli Murray.” University of South

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Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman. “Highlander Folk School and the South Carolina Sea Island

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