Civil Rights Bibliography

Civil Rights Bibliography

Selected Bibliography



Civil Rights Bibliography:

Branch, Taylor. Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960’s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Dickerson, Dennis. Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr. 1998.
 
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Henry, Charles P. Culture and African American Politics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

    How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Boston: South End Press, 1983.

    Black American Politics: From the Washington Marches to Jesse Jackson. London: Verso,         1985.

Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press, 1984.

Payne, Charles. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995

Tyson, Timothy, Radio Free Dixie: Robert f. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power; the Politics of Liberation in America. New York,: Random House, 1967.

Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle : African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Cross, Theodore L. The Black Power Imperative : Racial Inequality and the Politics of Nonviolence. New York: Faulkner, 1984.

Davis, Angela Yvonne. Angela Davis--an Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.

Dyson, Michael Eric. Making Malcolm : The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There with You : The True Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Free Press, 2000.

———. Holler If You Hear Me : Searching for Tupac Shakur. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2001.

Foner, Philip Sheldon. The Black Panthers Speak. [1st ] ed. Philadelphia,: Lippincott, 1970.

Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. 2d ed. Washington, DC: Open Hand Pub., 1985.

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.

———. Chicago 1966 : Open Housing Marches, Summit Negotiations, and Operation Breadbasket, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Civil Rights Movement ; 11. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1989.

Geschwender, James A. The Black Revolt: The Civil Rights Movement, Ghetto Uprisings, and Separatism. Prentice-Hall Sociology Series. Englewood.

Hill, Lance E. The Deacons for Defense : Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights : Organizing Memphis Workers, The Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Jackson, George. Blood in My Eye. [1st ] ed. New York,: Random House, 1972.

King, Martin Luther. Why We Can't Wait. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

———. Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

King, Martin Luther, and Clayborne Carson. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual Properties Management Inc. in association with Warner Books, 1998.

King, Martin Luther, and James Melvin Washington. A Testament of Hope : The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st ed. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.

Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion : The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990. 2nd ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

———. The Great Wells of Democracy : The Meaning of Race in American Life. New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2002.

McCartney, John T. Black Power Ideologies : An Essay in African-American Political Thought. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

McMillen, Neil R., and American Council of Learned Societies. Dark Journey Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Payne, Charles M., and Adam Green. Time Longer Than Rope : A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement : A Radical Democratic Vision, Gender & American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Tyson, Timothy B., Randolph Boehm, and Daniel Lewis. A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Black Power Movement, Black Studies Research Sources. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 2002.

Van Deburg, William L. Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound : A History of America's Civil Rights Movement. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.

Wilson, William J. The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

———. The Truly Disadvantaged : The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Woodard, Komozi. A Nation within a Nation : Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Black Power Politics. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

X, Malcolm, and George Breitman. Malcolm X Speaks; Selected Speeches and Statements. New York,: Grove Press, 1966.

———. By Any Means Necessary; Speeches, Interviews, and a Letter. New York,: Pathfinder Press, 1970.

X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York,: Grove Press, 1965.

Zinn, Howard. SNCC, the New Abolitionists. Boston,: Beacon Press, 1964.


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