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Movement Bibliography
Online Books, Audio, Film & Videos, Photos & Images
Online Books
Music & Audio
Film & Video
Photos and Images
See also:
Books Recommended by Movement
Veterans
Book Titles Grouped by Subject
All Books Listed by Title
Children & Young
Adult
General Availability
Movement-Related Web Links
(Note that except for the books
recommended by Movement veterans, the
resources listed here are provided as an information service only.
Inclusion in these lists does not necessarily imply that they are approved,
recommended, or endorsed by Movement veterans or this website.)
Online Books
- Vernon Johns, Life and Times of. Biography of
Vernon Johns ("Father of the Civil Rights Movement"). By Dr. Patrick L.
Cooney and Henry W. Powell. Vernon Johns Society, 1998.
Music & Audio
- Conscience for Change: Massey Lectures (Audo cassetes),
by Martin Luther King. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1967. Four
recorded lectures and a sermon by Dr. King. Analysis of race & poverty,
justice in America, U.S. politics, and why he opposed the Vietnam War.
(See The Trumpet of
Conscience for book version.)
- Fannie Lou Hamer: Roots of Her Activism. (History Channel)
(Audio)
- Freedom in the Air: The Civil Rights Movement in Song.
Six part PBS radio series on 3 tape cassettes. May still be available from:
MediaWorks, 7831 Woodmont Ave, #320, Bethesda MD 20814, 301.570.6339.
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Songs of the Mississippi Civil
Rights Movement. Can be obtained from: Cultural Center for
Social Change, 202.462.4611. $20.
- Long Walk to Freedom: Reunion Concert. Can be obtained
from: Cultural Center
for Social Change, 202.462.4611. $17.
- Lyrical Freedom Riders. Song. Can be hear and obtained
from:
www.myspace.com/songsbryanfieldmcfarland.
- Movement Soul (Various Artists). Audio CD
(2003). Live Recordings of Songs and Sayings from the the Civil Rights
movement at a peak time from 1963 and 1964.
- A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of
Reverend Martin Luther King (Audio Cassette), by Martin Luther
King, Peter Holloran (Editor), Clayborne Carson. Warner, 1998.
- SNCC
RealAudio (SNCC 1960-1966) Includes:
# John Lewis describes his experience on the
Freedom Rides
# Julian Bond talks about the formation of SNCC
# Bob Moses describes the Greenwood Voter
Registration Project
# Fannie Lou Hamer talks about registering to
vote
# Fannie Lou Hamer sings
# John Winters talks about sit-ins
# The SNCC Freedom Singers: Hold On
# The SNCC Freedom Singers: We Shall Overcome
- Voices of the Civil Rights Movement. Two CD set. Can be
obtained from: Smithsonian Folkways. $23. Introduction by Bernice Johnson
Reagan. Contains many of the SNCC Freedom Singers recordings.
- We Shall Overcome, by Herb Boyd. Sourcebooks, 2004.
Multimedia presentation of the Civil Rights Movement text,
pictures, and audio. Includes two audio CDs. ccc
- Who Speaks for the Negro?. Archive of
interviews including audio versions and copies of the correspondence,
transcripts, and other printed materials.
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?. Audio history of Civil
Rights Movement in 5 Southern communities. Can be purchased from: www.unbrokencircle.org.
Film & Video
- A. Phillip Randolph: for Jobs and
Freedom. A documentary on the life and work of A. Philip
Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters which inspired
the Civil Rights Movement. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
-
African-American History TV & Radio Collection.
University of Georgia. TV and Radio shows dealing with African-American
history and culture.
- American Revolution of '63. NBC, 1991.
- At the River I Stand Documentary on the
Memphis Garbage Strike 1968, and assasination of Dr. King.
- Brother Outside: The Life of Bayard Rustin.
The story of the civil rights and gay rights activist, pacifist, and friend
of Martin Luther King. Aired as part of the PBS "POV" series.
-
The Children's March,
by Tell the Truth Pictures, 2004. "When the youth of Birmingham, AL,
took to the streets and challenged segregation, they launched a
revolution and changed the world.
Can be obtained from:
Teaching Tolerance.
-
Citizen King. The last 5 years of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s life. Produced by PBS for the "The American Experience."
-
Dream Deferred. SNCC, 1964. Produced for Freedom Summer. (No
known copies)
- Eyes on the Prize, Parts 1 and 2, by Blackside.
Outstanding 14 hour documentary on the Freedom Movement, broadcast as part
of PBS "American Experience." (Part 1 can still be obtained at a very high
price from PBS, Part 2 is currently unavailable. Both parts might still be
available in libraries or video rental stores.)
-
The FBI's War on Black America. Examines COINTELPRO
operations against the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
- February 1. Chronicles the Greensborom NC
student sit-ins in 1960 which sparked many similar actions across the
country. Can be obtained from: California Newsreel.
- For Us the Living, 1983. Anchor Bay Entertainment. Story
of Medgar Evers. Screenplay by Ossie Davis. Starring Howard Rollins, Jr.,
Irene Cara, Laurence Fishburne, and Paul Winfield.
- Freedom On My Mind, California Newsreel,
1994. The story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when
a handful of young activists changed history.
- Freedom
Riders, Stanley Nelson ~ American Experience, 2010. Partially based
on Ray Arsenalut's Freedom
Riders.
-
Freedom Song (TNT Movie). Fictional account
of the Movement in Mississippi in the early '60s. Closely based on actual
events in McComb, 1961. Well researched, and powerfully presented. Danny
Glover stars.
- From
Swastika to Jim Crow, Pacific Street Films, 2001.
Story of German Jewish intellectuals who fled the Nazis to America and
became professors at historically all-Black colleges in the South such as
Tougaloo, Talladega, Hampton, and Howard. Shunned by Southern whites,
threatened by the KKK, they played a role during the struggles of the 1950s
and 60s.
-
Fundi, the Story of Ella Baker. First Run Features, 1981. By
Joanne Grant. Bio & interviews with Ella Baker (NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, etc).
- Home of the Brave. About Viola Luizzo the only white
woman murdered in the civil rights movement in America and why we don't
know who she is.
- Hoxie: the First Stand. After the
Brown v. Board ruling, the head of the Hoxie, Arkansas school board
moves to desegregate schools. Segregationists, often from outside the
town, see this as an opportunity to foment oppositon. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
- The Intolerable Burden, Directed by Chea Prince,
Produced by Constance Curry. First Run Icarus
Films. 2003. Based on Connie's book
Silver Rights, the story of
school integration in one rural Mississippi county.
-
The Long Walk Home. Miramax Films, 1991. Fictional
account of Montgomery Bus Boycott. Stars Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy
Spacek.
- Mississippi Becomes a Democracy. Story of
voter registration, Freedom Summer, and the MFDP challenge in Atlantic
City.
- Mississippi Is This America? 1962-1964,
1986. PBS.
- Mississippi Summer: The Unfinished Journey. Films for the
Humanities, 1993.
- The
Murder of Emmett Till. Story of the murder of the young boy
from the north in Money, Mississippi. Produced by PBS for "The American
Experience."
- Negroes With Guns. The activism of North
Carolina's Robert F. Williams who advocated armed self-defense against
attacks on the Movement and the Black community. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
- Neshoba: The
Price of Freedom The lynching of Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman
and the struggle to bring their killers to justice.
- Pursuing a Late Justice: the Prosecution of Mississippi's Civil
Rights Murders. Video tape of forum at University of Southern
Mississippi. Can be obtained from: Email: Bobs Tusa, $8.00.
- The Road to Brown. The story of the Brown v.
Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal
assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement.
- Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 4-part series
offering a comprehensive look at race relations in America between the
Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
- Rivers of
Change The Legacy of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and Their
Struggle for Justice and Dignity, by William Dickerson-Waheed
Cosmo-D productions.
-
Scarred Justice: the Orangeburg Massacre 1968. Unarmed
demonstrators were shot and killed by authorities during a protest against
segregation in Orangeburg, South Carolina. One of the producers is SNCC
veteran Judy Richardson. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
-
Selma, Lord, Selma. Film made from the book of the
same name about Selma's "youngest freedom fighters," Sheyann age 8,
and Rachel age 9.
-
The Second American Revolution. Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis,
Bill Moyers, 1994. PBS.
- Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired.
(YouTube. Documentary by two high-school students.)
- Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for
Change PBS documentary film about Catholic nuns involved
in the Selma voting rights struggle.
- SNCC Anniversary
Conference
. Video record of the conference speeches,
presentations, freedom singing, and panel discussions. 38 DVDs
available individually or as a collection. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
- Spies of Mississippi (Trilogy Films)
Documents secret efforts of
Mississippi Sovereignty
Commission to undermine and destroy the Freedom Movement and their
network of spies.
- Standing
on My Sisters' Shoulders. Film about the Movement in Mississippi from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it.
-
The Strange Demise of Jim Crow. In the early 1960's, the
Movement and the white leadership of Houston, TX — unlike
in some other places in the South — work together for a
more orderly desegregation. Can be obtained from:
California Newsreel.
- Underground Railroad in
Mexico, Video by the Colorline Project. 2004.
-
The Vernon Johns Story (AKA The Road to Freedom: the
Vernon Johns Story). Made for TV biopic of the early Movement
leader. Stars James Earl Jones.
- We Shall Overcome. Story of the song that
became the anthem that set America marching towards racial equality. [Only
sold to organizations, libraries, church groups, etc.]
-
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe. Emily
Kunstler Sarah Kunstler, 2009. Biography of civil rights and radical
attorney William Kunstler. Aired as part of the PBS "POV" series.
Photos and Images
- Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for
Freedom), by Clayborne Carson (Foreword), Myrlie Evers-
Williams (Editor), Mark Bauerlein (Editor), Todd Steven Burroughs,
Ella Forbes, and Jim Haskins. Publications International, 2003. Photo-
essay, coffee-table sized book convering the Civil Rights Movement,
from slavery to the present day.
- Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History 1954-68, by
Steven Kasher. Abbeville Press, 2000. Movement photo collection with text
by Movement participants. Forward by Myrlie Evers-Williams.
- Faces of Freedom Summer The Photographs of Herbert
Randall. Compiled by Bobs Tusa. University of Alabama Press, 2001.
Photo collection from Freedom Summer 1964.
- Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of the Civil Rights Struggle
As Seen by a Black Photographer of the Deep South, by Cecil J.
Williams. Mercer University Press, 1995. Photo essay on Southern
segregation and the Freedom Movement. Strong photos and first-person
narrative. Author's website:
Moments of
Grace.
- Freedom's March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in
Savannah, Frederick C. Baldwin and Telfair Museum of Art.
University of Georgia Press, 2008.
- I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation
Strike & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by Memphis
Commercial Appeal staff. Memphis Publishing Company, 1992.
Rare.
- King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, by
Charles Johnson and Bob Adelman. Harry Abrams Inc, 2004. ccc
- Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Danny Lyon, University of North Carolina Press,
October 1992. Danny Lyon was the SNCC photographer who covered many of the
major Freedom Movement campaigns and projects. (See also Danny Lyon's website,
Bleak Beauty.)
- Photos
by Jo Freeman. Movement photos by SCLC staff member Jo Freeman.
- Let Us March On! Selected Civil Rights Photographs of
Ernest C. Withers 1955-1968, by Ronald Baily and Michelle Furst.
Massachusetts College of Art, 1992.
- Powerful
Days. Civil rights photography of Charles Moore.
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration, by Toni
Morrison. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Collection of school integration
photos combined with fictional story and dialog of students who experienced
it.
- Time of Change, Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965,
by Bruce Davidson. St. Ann's Press, 2002. Collection of Bruce
Davidson's photographs of the Freedom Movement.
- We Shall Overcome, by Herb Boyd. Sourcebooks, 2004.
Multimedia presentation of the Civil Rights Movement text,
pictures, and audio. Includes two audio CDs. ccc
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