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Memoirs and Biographies
- Autobiography of a Freedom
Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights, by Thomas
Armstrong and Natalie Bell. A model for personal empowerment through
civic engagement, and furthering the realization of America's democratic
ideals.
- Barefootin': Life Lessons from
the Road to Freedom, by Unita Blackwell & Joanne Prichard
Morris. "This book teaches you so much about being an activist and where
your committment should stay."
- The Children, by
David Halberstam. "The stories of the young activists who built the
Movement in the early days, the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and
their lives after."
- Coming of Age in
Mississippi, by Anne Moody. "A classic. Captures the sense
of what it's like for a young woman growing up in a poor Black
environment."
- Ella Baker: Freedom
Bound, by Joanne Grant. An account of Ella Baker and the
central role she played in the Movement.
- Freedom's Children, by
Ellen Levine. (Recommended for grades 6-12.) First-person accounts of 30
young Freedom Movement activists.
- Freedom Summer, by Sally
Belfrage. "A good companion to 'Letters From Mississippi.'"
- From the Mississippi
Delta, by Endesha Mae Holland. "Anyone who reads this learns
about poverty and class, about the importance of movements and how they
change peoples' lives, and about committment — it's all
there."
- Great Courage, by
Anthony E. Amerson. Biography of Lucius D. Amerson, the first Black
sheriff elected in the South since reconstruction, in racially charged
Macon County, Alabama.
- It Was Never About a Hotdog and
a Coke: A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in
Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday, by
Rodney L. Hurst Sr. Personal account by the
NAACP Jacksonville Youth Council president of the
1960 sit-ins & "Ax Handle
Saturday," when nonviolent protesters were attacked by 200 whites with
ax handles and baseball bats.
- Lay Bare the Heart: An
Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement, by James Farmer.
Personal story of the CORE leader, one of the major figures of the
Movement.
- Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels
and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, by Charles Eagles.
"Gives an idea of who he really was."
- Ready for Revolution: The Life and
Struggles of Stokely Carmichael, by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame
Ture) with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. "Reads beautiful. A great
book."
- Sammy Younge, Jr.: The First
Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement,
by James Forman. "About the Movement in Alabama that nobody every writes
about."
- Soon We Will Not Cry: The
Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, by Cynthia Griggs
Fleming. Story of a major leader in SNCC, and the struggle for women's
rights.
History and Analysis
- America in the King Years
(Trilogy), by Taylor Branch
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 1965-68
"Indispensable."
- In the Shadow of Selma: The
Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the Rural South, by
Cynthia Griggs Fleming.
- I've Got the Light of
Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom
Struggle, by Charles Payne. "An important book. The Movement
from the grassroots level, what it was like to build a movement in a town
like Greenwood. And what the Movement meant to the people who were in it.
The Movement from the inside looking out, rather than from the outside
looking in."
- Letters From Mississippi: Reports from
Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer, by
Elizabeth (Betita) Sutherland Martinez. "The new edition with the
Freedom School poetry makes it just a gem of a book on the Mississippi
Summer Project."
- Local People: the Struggle for
Civil Rights in Mississippi, by John Dittmer. Prize-winning
book about the Movement in Mississippi from the point of view of the local
people who lived it.
- The Movement, by
Lorrain Hansberry and Elizabeth (Betita)
Sutherland Martinez. "One of the best books about the Movement ever
written. It motivated me to go South and join the struggle."
- Peace and Freedom: The Civil
Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s, by Simon Hall.
Explores the links between the CRM and the Vietnam War and the relationship
between Black organizations and the Anti-War Movement.
- Protest at Selma: Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by David
J. Garrow. "One of my favorites."
- Simple Justice: The History
of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for
Equality, by Richard Kluger. "Not just the story of
Brown v Board of Education, but also a remarkable pre-Brown history of
the South"
- SNCC: The New
Abolitionists, by Howard Zinn. "The best book about SNCC.
[Zinn] wrote it while it was happening. He was there."
- Stride Toward
Freedom, by Martin Luther King. "Not just the story of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, but also the first expression of Dr. King's long
journey and who he became."
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