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Movement Bibliography
Titles Grouped by Subject

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

See also Alphabetic Listing of Titles
See also Movement-Related Web Links

    NOTICE — This list of web information sources is provided for research purposes only. Inclusion in this list does not imply any kind of agreement, approval, or endorsement of a particular website by Civil Rights Movement Veterans.

~ A ~

Rev. Ralph Abernathy

  1. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down An Autobiography
  2. Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy...

Alabama Movement

  1. Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town (Anniston)
  2. Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System: Life and Works of Fred Gray
  3. Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America
  4. Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust
  5. In the Shadow of Selma
  6. Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
  7. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee

    See also:
    Birmingham Movement
    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Selma Voting Rights Campaign
    Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

~ B ~

Ella Baker

  1. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
  2. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound
  3. Ella Baker: A Leader Behind the Scenes (Ages 9-12)

Biographies
Note — people with multiple biographies (Dr. King, for example) have a named section on this page.

(Lucius Amerson) Great Courage
(Unita Blackwell) Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom
(Julian Bond) Julian Bond: Black Rebel
(Ann Braden) Subversive Southerner, Ann Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice ...
(J.L. Chestnut) Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut
(Jonathan Daniels) Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the CRM in Alabama
(Ralph Eubanks) Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past: A Memoir
(Jim Foreman) The Making of Black Revolutionaries
(Fred Gray) Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System
(Dorothy Height) Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
(Aaron Henry) Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning
(Vernon Johns) Vernon Johns, Life and Times of (Online book)
(Vernon Jordan) Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (Vernon Jordan)
(Mary King) Freedom Song
(John Lewis) Walking With the Wind
(Anne Moody) Coming of Age in Mississippi
(Henry Moore) Before His Time: The Untold Story Of Harry T. Moore
(E.D. Nixon) Freedom is Never Free: Biographical Portrait of E. D. Nixon
(Ruby Doris Smith Robinson) Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris ...
(Rev. John H. Scott) Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
(Cleveland Sellers) River of No Return: Autobiography of a Black Militant
(Eldreway Stearns) No Color is My Kind: The Life of and the Integration of Houston
(Kwame Ture) Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
(Robert F. Williams) Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power
(Andrew Young) An Easy Burden
(Bob Zellner) The Wrong Side of Murder Creek

See also Personal Histories & Narratives — Collections

Birmingham Movement

  1. A Fire You Can't Put Out: Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
  2. A Walk to Freedom: Rev. Shuttlesworth & ACMHR 1956-1964
  3. Birmingham's Revolutionaries Fred Shuttlesworth ACMHR
  4. Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
  5. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
  6. Carry Me Home: Birmingham Alabama, Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
  7. The Children's March (Video)
  8. Parting the Warers
  9. Why We Can't Wait

Black Power

  1. The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power
  2. Black Parties and Political Power: A Case Study
  3. Black Power (Richard Wright, 1956)
  4. Black Power and the American Myth
  5. Black Power Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political Thought
  6. Black Power Imperative: Racial Inequality and the Politics of Nonviolence
  7. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (in America)
  8. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
  9. The Black Power Revolt
  10. Black Theology and Black Power
  11. Farewell to Innocence: A Socio-Ethical Study on Black Theology and Black Power
  12. Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama!
  13. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture
  14. Profiles in Black Power
  15. The Rhetoric of Black Power
  16. Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power
  17. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

Ruby Bridges

  1. Story of Ruby Bridges (Grades 1-3)
  2. Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges) (Ages 8-15)

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Cambridge MD Movement & Gloria Richardson

  1. Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge Maryland

Children, Students, & Youth in the Movement

  1. The Children
  2. The Children's March (Video)
  3. Civil Rights Childhood
  4. Civil Rights Movement for Kids (ages 9 & older)
  5. Coming of Age in Mississippi
  6. Freedom's Children (Ages 6-12)
  7. Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement (Ages 9-12)
  8. Leon's Story (Ages 8-12)
  9. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
  10. Stand up For Your Rights (Grades 9-12)
  11. Story of Ruby Bridges (Grades 1-3)
  12. Struggle for a Better South: Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969
  13. Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges) (Ages 8-15)
  14. Undaunted By The Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement
  15. Warriors Don't Cry: Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
  16. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Grades 5-8)

Civil Rights Legislation

  1. A Bill Becomes a Law: Congress Enacts Civil Rights Legislation
  2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Grades 12)
  3. Civil Rights, the White House, and the Justice Department: ...
  4. Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
  5. The Voting Rights Act: Consequences and Implications
  6. Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
  7. Along Racial Lines: Consequences of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
  8. Judgment Days: LBJ, MLK, the Laws That Changed America
  9. Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990
  10. Unfinished Agenda of The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March

    See also:
    Mississippi Movement
    Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery
    Voting Rights Struggle

Civil Rights Movement — General, History, Overview

  1. Africana: Civil Rights
  2. African-American History TV & Radio Collection (Video)
  3. American Civil Rights Movement Readings and Interpretations
  4. An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement
  5. At Canaan's Edge — America in the King Years 1965-68
  6. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
  7. Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses
  8. Civil Rights Chronicle: (African-American Struggle for Freedom)
  9. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South
  10. Civil Rights Marches (Cornerstones of Freedom) (Ages 9-12)
  11. Civil Rights Movement (Highschool & young adult)
  12. Civil Rights Movement in America (Ages 9-12)
  13. Civil Rights Movement in America From 1865 to the Present (Grades 5-9)
  14. Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History 1954-68
  15. Civil Rights Movement (Seminar Studies in History)
  16. Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
  17. The Coming Free
  18. Day Martin Luther King Jr. Was Shot (Ages 9-12)
  19. Debating the Civil Rights Movement: 1945-1968
  20. Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement
  21. A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954 to 1968
  22. Everybody Says Freedom
  23. Eyes on the Prize (Video)
  24. Eyes on the Prize (Book)
  25. Free At Last: History of the Civil Rights Movement & Those Who Died (Ages 9-12)
  26. Freedom Bound: History of the American Civil Rights Movement
  27. Freedom & Justice: 4 Decades of the Struggle As Seen by a Black Photographer
  28. Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
  29. Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America
  30. Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
  31. If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King (Ages 9-12)
  32. Let Us March On! (Photos & Images)
  33. Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
  34. Making of Black Revolutionaries
  35. Marching Toward Freedom 1957-1965 (Grades 6-12)
  36. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
  37. My Soul is Rested
  38. My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience
  39. My Soul is a Witness: Cronology of the Civil Rights Era 1954 — 1965
  40. Nation in Turmoil (Ages 12 & up)
  41. Now Is Your Time! African-American Struggle for Freedom (Ages 11-up)
  42. Oh, Freedom! ... (Ages 4-8)
  43. On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
  44. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
  45. Parting the Waters — America in the King Years 1954-1963
  46. Pillar of Fire — America in the King Years 1963-1965
  47. Photos by Jo Freeman (Images)
  48. Politics of Injustice: Kennedys, Freedom Rides, & Electoral Consequences ...
  49. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (Teacher Guide)
  50. Radical Equations: Organizing Math Literacy in America's Schools
  51. Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Video)
  52. Stand up For Your Rights (Grades 9-12)
  53. Struggle for Black Equality, 1964-1980
  54. There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights (Ages 10-Young Adult)
  55. They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle ... (Ages 10-Young Adult)
  56. Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
  57. Simple Justice: Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle ...
  58. Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
  59. Voices of the Civil Rights Era (Audio)
  60. Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Audio)
  61. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement 1950-1980
  62. We Shall Overcome (Text-Audio-Photos)
  63. We Shall Overcome: History of the American Civil Rights Movement (Grades 5-10)
  64. We Shall Overcome:Martin Luther King and the Black Freedom Struggle
  65. Who Speaks for the Negro? (Interviews & oral histories)
  66. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (Audio)
  67. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
  68. Why We Can't Wait

See also Personal Histories & Narratives — Collections

Septima Clarke

  1. Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement
  2. Echo in My Soul (Autobiography)

Cold War & Civil Rights Movement, see International Aspects...

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  1. CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement 1942-1968
  2. Interviews With Civil Rights Workers from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  3. Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967

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Deacons for Defense

  1. Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

~ E ~

Economics, Class, and Race

  1. Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
  2. Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

Medgar Evers

  1. Assassination of Medgar Evers (Ages 4-9)
  2. At the Funeral of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi
  3. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
  4. For Us the Living
  5. Ghosts of Medgar Evers, A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood
  6. Ghosts of Mississippi: Murder of Medgar Evers, ... and the Haunting of the New South
  7. Ghosts of Mississippi: The True Story
  8. Medgar Evers
  9. Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers

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James Farmer

  1. Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
FBI see Repression and Opposition Against the Movement

Fiction

  1. Circle of Fire (Ages 9-12)
  2. Eddie's Ordeal (Ages 8-12)
  3. Freedom Song (Video)
  4. Freedom Songs (Teen)
  5. Freshwater Road
  6. The Gandhi Ring

Florida Movement

  1. Before His Time: The Untold Story Of Harry T. Moore...
  2. Bridging the Gap: Continuing the Florida NAACP Legacy of Harry T. Moore
  3. Centers of the Southern Struggle: FBI Files on ... and St. Augustine
  4. Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
  5. If It Takes All Summer: MLK, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
  6. Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida
  7. Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980
  8. St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-1964: Mass Protest and Racial Violence
  9. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, And Gender in the South

Freedom Rides

  1. Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
  2. The Children
  3. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  4. Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice (Ages 5 to 9)
  5. Lyrical Freedom Riders. Song
  6. Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance, (Grades 2-4).
  7. Politics of Injustice: Kennedys, Freedom Rides, & Electoral Consequences ...

Freedom Songs

  1. Freedom in the Air: The Civil Rights Movement in Song (Audio)
  2. Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Songs of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Audio)
  3. Everybody Says Freedom
  4. Long Walk to Freedom: Reunion Concert (Audio)
  5. Movement Soul (Audio)
  6. Sing for Freedom
  7. We Shall Overcome (Video)
  8. We Shall Overcome (Text-Audio-Photos)
  9. When the Spirit Says Sing! The Role of Freedom Songs in the CRM

Freedom Summer, see Mississippi Movement

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Georgia Movement — Atlanta — Albany

  1. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
  2. From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of White Civil Rights Activist
  3. My Family The Movement & Me
  4. Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, GA 1946-1981
  5. Undaunted By The Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967

Greensboro, NC Sit-in & Movement

  1. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, N.C. and the Struggle for Freedom
  2. Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins (Grades 1-3)
  3. Lunch at the five and ten
  4. Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance, (Grades 2-4).

~ H ~

Fannie Lou Hamer

  1. Fannie Lou Hamer: From Sharecropping to Politics (Ages 9-12)
  2. Fannie Lou Hamer: Roots of Her Activism (Audio)
  3. Fear Not the Fall
  4. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
  5. This Little Light of Mine: the Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

    See also Mississippi Movement

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International Aspects, Anti-Colonial Struggles, Cold War

  1. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
  2. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
  3. Eyes off the Prize: United Nations & African-American Struggle, 1944-1955
  4. No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists ...

~ J ~

Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

  1. Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
  2. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
  3. The Hand of Esau: Montgomery's Jewish Community And the 1955/56 Bus Boycott
  4. Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community

Jim Crow see Segregation and Jim Crow

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Martin Luther King

  1. At Canaan's Edge — America in the King Years 1965-68
  2. A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Young readers)
  3. At the River I Stand (Video)
  4. Bearing the Cross
  5. Citizen King (Video)
  6. Dare to Dream (grades 3-5)
  7. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: MLK & Struggle for Economic Justice
  8. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, MLK's Last Campaign
  9. Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King (Ages 3-7)
  10. I Have a Dream (King biography) (Ages 4-8)
  11. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King
  12. I Will Not Be Silent and I Will Be Heard: MLK, & SCLC
  13. Judgment Days: LBJ, MLK, and the Laws That Changed America
  14. King [comic] (Young adult/adult)
  15. King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
  16. Last Crusade: MLK, FBI, & Poor People's Campaign
  17. Just Like Martin (Ages 10-14)
  18. Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ages 5-9)
  19. Martin Luther King (Ages 5-8)
  20. Martin Luther King
  21. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero
  22. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers (Ages 4-8)
  23. My Dream of Martin Luther King (Ages 5-8)
  24. Parting the Waters — America in the King Years 1954-1963
  25. Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Young readers)
  26. Pillar of Fire — America in the King Years 1963-1965
  27. To Redeem the Soul of America: SCLC and MLK
  28. Sharing the Dream: MLK, the Movement, and Me
  29. We Shall Overcome: MLK and the Black Freedom Struggle

By Martin Luther King — Books, Sermons, and Speeches

Books

Speeches, Sermons, & Other Writings

Martin Luther King Assasination

  1. An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
  2. Assasination Of Martin Luther King (Ages 9-12)
  3. Code name "Zorro": The Murder of MLK
  4. Conspiracy: The Truth Behind MLK's Murder
  5. He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, for the Truth About ...
  6. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of MLK
  7. Murder in Memphis: The FBI and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
  8. The Murkin Conspiracy: An Investigation Into the Assassination of MLK
  9. Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of MLK
  10. A Racial Crime: James Earl Ray And The Murder Of MLK

Ku Klux Klan, White Citizens Council, & Other Racist Organizations

  1. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement
  2. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

~ L ~

Little Rock Nine & Integration of Central High, 1957

  1. Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine (Grades 1-3)
  2. Crisis at Central High, Little Rock, 1957-58
  3. Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story (Ages 8-12)
  4. Life Is More than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High
  5. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir by Daisy Bates
  6. The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Grades 6-11)
  7. Understanding the Little Rock Crisis: An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation
  8. Warriors Don't Cry: Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
  9. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Grades 5-8)

Louisiana Movement (Including Bogalusa & New Orleans)

  1. Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir
  2. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
  3. Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
  4. Black, White, and Catholic New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956

Viola Luizzo

  1. From Selma to Sorrow: Life & Death of Viola Luizzo
  2. Home of the Brave (Video)
  3. The Informant: The FBI, KKK, & Murder of Viola Liuzzo

~ M ~

March on Washington & "I Have a Dream" Speech

  1. Dream: Martin Luther King, JR. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
  2. I Have a Dream (Illustrated text of speech, ages 4-8)
  3. I Have a Dream (Ages 4-8)
  4. I Have a Dream: Story Behind MLK's Most Famous Speech (Ages 4-8)
  5. Like A Mighty Stream: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963
  6. The March on Washington (Ages 9-12)
  7. March On Washington, 1963 (Ages 9-12)
  8. March on Washington: August 28, 1963
  9. Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington (Grades 1-3)
  10. The 1963 Civil Rights March (Ages 9-12)
  11. The 1963 March on Washington: Speeches and Songs for Civil Rights (ages 4-8)
  12. Poor People's Campaign & March on Washington...

Ruby McCollum Murder Trial

  1. Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail
  2. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, And Gender in the South
  3. Trial of Ruby McCollum

Media and the Movement

  1. Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television
  2. In a Madhouse's Din: Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968
  3. Mississippi From Within
  4. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and ...
  5. Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973
  6. Selling of Civil Rights: SNCC and the Use of Public Relations
  7. The Smell of Burning Crosses

Memphis Garbage Strike & Assasination of Dr. King

  1. At the River I Stand (Video)
  2. At the River I Stand: Memphis, 1968 Sanitation Strike & MLK
  3. I Am a Man: Photographs - 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike & MLK
  4. In Memphis: More Than a Garbage Strike
  5. Memphis Multi-Media Archival Project: The 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike
  6. Memphis Workers Fight: The City Sanitation Workers' Strike
James Meredith (Desegregation of Ole Miss & March Against Fear)
  1. An American Insurrection: James Meredith and ...
  2. Three Years in Mississippi

Mississippi Movement (Including Freedom Summer — Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman Murders)

  1. Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning
  2. An American Insurrection : James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
  3. And Gently Shall He Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
  4. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
  5. Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom
  6. Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
  7. Coming of Age in Mississippi
  8. Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past: A Memoir
  9. Faces of Freedom Summer (Photo)
  10. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
  11. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy
  12. Freedom On My Mind (Video)
  13. Freedom Song (Video)
  14. Freedom Summer
  15. Freedom Summer
  16. Freedom Summer (Ages 4-8)
  17. Freshwater Road (Fiction)
  18. If White Kids Die
  19. In a Madhouse's Din: Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968
  20. I've Got the Light of Freedom: Organizing Tradition & Mississippi Freedom Struggle
  21. Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism
  22. Legacy of a Freedom School
  23. Letters From Mississippi
  24. Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County...
  25. Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
  26. Mississippi Becomes a Democracy (Video)
  27. Mississippi Challenge (Ages 11-Young Adult)
  28. Mississippi: Conflict and Change (Textbook)
  29. Mississippi From Within
  30. Mississippi Harmony, Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
  31. Mississippi — Is This America? 1962-1964 (Video)
  32. Mississippi Summer: The Unfinished Journey (Video)
  33. The Murder of Emmett Till (Video)
  34. Pursuing a Late Justice: the Prosecution of Mississippi's Civil Rights Murders (Video)
  35. The Smell of Burning Crosses
  36. Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders (Video)
  37. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi
  38. Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited
  39. Witness At Philadelphia

    See also Fannie Lou Hamer

Monroe, NC see Robert F. Williams, Self-Defense, & Monroe NC Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks

  1. Daybreak of Freedom
  2. If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks (Ages 5-9)
  3. Freedom is Never Free: Biographical Portrait of E. D. Nixon
  4. The Hand of Esau: Montgomery's Jewish Community And the 1955/56 Bus Boycott
  5. Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan And the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  6. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
  7. Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement (Ages 9-12)
  8. Rosa Parks: My Story (Ages 9 - Young Adult)
  9. Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance, (Grades 2-4).
  10. Stride Toward Freedom
  11. Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who ...
  12. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Grades 5-8)

Bob Moses

  1. Radical Equations: Organizing Math Literacy in America's Schools

~ N ~

NAACP (National Association Advancement Colored People)

  1. Before His Time: The Untold Story Of Harry T. Moore
  2. Brown v Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
  3. Freedom's Sword: NAACP & Struggle Against Racism in America...
  4. In the Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
  5. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
  6. We Return Fighting: The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age

Nashville Movement

  1. Abby Takes a Stand (Ages 8-12)
  2. The Children

Northern Civil Rights Movement

  1. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South
  2. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement

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Orangeburg Movement & Massacre see South Carolina Movement

~ P ~

Personal Histories & Narratives — Collections

  1. Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Grade 6 & up)
  2. The Children
  3. Children of the Movement
  4. Deep in Our Hearts, Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement
  5. Freedom Summer
  6. Freedom's Children (Grades 6-12)
  7. Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
  8. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
  9. Living in the Shadows of a Legend: Unsung Heroes and Sheroes ..
  10. My Soul is Rested
  11. Oh, Freedom! .. (Grades 4 to 8)
  12. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Grades 5-8)

Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City

  1. In the Mule Train: A Journey of Hope Remembered
  2. Last Crusade: MLK, FBI, & Poor People's Campaign
  3. Ten Blocks from the White House: An Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968

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~ R ~

Religion and the Civil Rights Movement

  1. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

Repression and Opposition Against the Movement

  1. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement
  2. COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent ...
  3. Last Crusade: MLK, FBI, & Poor People's Campaign
  4. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights
  5. Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972

Bayard Rustin

  1. Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
  2. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
  3. Brother Outside: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Video)
  4. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
  5. Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen: A Biography
  6. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

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Schools and School Desegregation

  1. An American Insurrection : James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
  2. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
  3. Brown v Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
  4. Freedom's Children (Ages 6-12)
  5. Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement (Ages 9-12)
  6. Higher Education & Civil Rights Movement: ...
  7. Intolerable Burden (Video)
  8. In the Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
  9. Now Is the Time
  10. Road to Brown (Video)
  11. Silver Rights
  12. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
  13. They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, VA.
  14. Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges) (Ages 8-15)
  15. Warriors Don't Cry: Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
  16. Black, White, and Catholic New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956

Segregation and Jim Crow

  1. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
  2. American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
  3. Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
  4. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
  5. Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History (Grades 5-9)
  6. Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was
  7. Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights
  8. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
  9. Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
  10. Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
  11. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South
  12. Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Video)
  13. Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow
  14. Strange Career of Jim Crow
  15. Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation as a Campaign Issue ...
  16. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America
  17. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
  18. When Did Southern Segregation Begin?

Self-Defense see Robert F. Williams, Self-Defense, & Monroe NC Movement

Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery

  1. Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut
  2. Bridge Across Jordan: The Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Selma
  3. The Bridge at Selma: Turning Points in American History (Grades 5-8)
  4. From Selma to Sorrow: Life & Death of Viola Luizzo
  5. The Informant: The FBI, KKK, & Murder of Viola Liuzzo
  6. The March From Selma to Montgomery... (Ages 4-8)
  7. Protest at Selma: MLK, & Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Ages 4-8)
  8. Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South
  9. Selma, Lord, Selma (Book)
  10. Selma, Lord, Selma (Video)
  11. The Unfinished Agenda of The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

  1. A Fire You Can't Put Out: Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
  2. A Walk to Freedom: Rev. Shuttlesworth & ACMHR 1956-1964
  3. Birmingham's Revolutionaries Fred Shuttlesworth ACMHR

South Carolina Movement (Including Orangeburg Movement & Orangeburg Massacre)

  1. Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of the Civil Rights Struggle ...
  2. The Orangeburg Massacre
  3. Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  1. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, & SCLC
  2. History of SCLC, 1955-1965: the Evolution of a Southern Strategy for Social Change
  3. Interviews With Civil Rights Workers from the SCLC
  4. I Will Not Be Silent and I Will Be Heard: MLK, and the SCLC
  5. Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the SCLC from King to the Nineteen-Eighties
  6. Marching Toward Freedom 1957-1965: ...
  7. Parting the Waters, America in the King Years 1954-1963
  8. The SCOPE of Freedom: The Leadership of Hosea Williams ...
  9. Records Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970
  10. To Redeem the Soul of America: SCLC and Martin Luther King Jr.

Sit-In Movement

  1. Atlanta Georgia, 1960-1961: Sit Ins and Student Activism
  2. Eyes on the Prize (Book)
  3. In Struggle, SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960's
  4. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
  5. Parting the Waters, America in the King Years 1954-1963
  6. River of No Return: Autobiography of Black Militant & Life and Death of SNCC
  7. The Sit-in Movement: Progress Report and Prognosis
  8. Walking With the Wind
  9. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Grades 5-8)

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  1. A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC
  2. In Struggle, SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960's
  3. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America
  4. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
  5. River of No Return: Autobiography of Black Militant & Life and Death of SNCC
  6. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
  7. SNCC The New Abolitionists ***
  8. SNCC: The Growth of Radicalism in a Civil Rights Organization
  9. SNCC RealAudio (Audio)

Songs see Freedom Songs

Students & Youth see Children, Students, & Youth in the Movement

Supreme Court

  1. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

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Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

  1. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
  2. Teaching the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song

Texas Movement

  1. No Color is My Kind: The Life of Eldreway Stearns and the Integration of Houston

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Voting Rights Struggle

  1. Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning
  2. And Gently Shall He Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses & Civil Rights in Mississippi
  3. Before His Time: Untold Story Of Harry T. Moore
  4. From Selma to Sorrow: Life & Death of Viola Luizzo
  5. Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
  6. Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South
  7. Selma, Lord, Selma
  8. This Little Light of Mine: the Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
  9. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi

    See also:
    Alabama Movement
    Mississippi Movement
    Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery
    Civil Rights Legislation

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White Southerners & Movement

  1. Carry Me Home: Birmingham Alabama, Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
  2. From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of White Civil Rights Activist
  3. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement
  4. Struggle for a Better South: Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969
  5. Witness At Philadelphia

Robert F. Williams, Self-Defense, & Monroe NC Movement

  1. Negroes With Guns
  2. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power
  3. Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self Defense, & Self Determination (Audio)
  4. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (Film)

Women & the Civil Rights Movement

  1. Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Grade 6 & up)
  2. Deep in Our Hearts, Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement
  3. Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement 1830-1970
  4. Gender in the Civil Rights Movement
  5. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
  6. How Long? How Long? African-American Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights
  7. Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (Grades 4-7)
  8. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
  9. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir (Dorothy Height)
  10. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
  11. Sisters in Struggle: African-American Women in Civil Rights & Black Power Movements
  12. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
  13. Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders (Video)
  14. Subversive Southerner, Ann Braden & Struggle for Racial Justice in Cold War South
  15. Trial of Ruby McCollum
  16. Undaunted By The Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement
  17. Witness At Philadelphia
  18. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers

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