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THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
A Selective List of Resources

Compiled by Sandy Folsom. For more information and/or reference assistance, please contact Sandy Folsom (Email: sandy.l.folsom@cmich.edu, Phone: 989-774-2166) or ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Park Library (Phone: 774-3470). 

General Collection | Media Services | Reference Collection


General Collection

Adams, Julianne Lewis, and DeBlack, Thomas.  Civil Obedience:  An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954-1965.  Fayetteville:  University of Arkansas Press, 1995.        
Books LC 214.23 .F39 A33 1995
 

Atkinson, Pansye S.  Brown vs. Topeka:  An African American's View:  Desegregation and Miseducation.  Chicago ILL.:  African Americans Images, 1993.       
Books KF 4155 .A93 1993x
 

Avery, Sheldon.  Up From Washington:  William Pickens and the Negro Struggle for Equality, 1900-1954.  Newark:  University of Delaware Press; London:  Associated University Presses, 1989.       
Books E 185.97 .P593 A95 1989
 

Brinkley, Douglas.  Rosa Parks.  New York:  Vikings, 2000.       
Books F 334 .M753 P373 2000
 

Brown, Mary Jane.  Eradicating This Evil:  Women in American Anti-lynching Movement, 1892-1940.  New York:  Garland Pub., 2000.       
Books HV 6457 .B76 2000
 

Burns, Stewart.  Daybreak of Freedom:  The Montgomery Bus Boycott.  Chapel Hill, NC.:  University of North Carolina Press, 1997.       
Books  F334 .M79 N39 1997
 

Capeci, Dominic J.  The Harlem Riot of 1943.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1977.       
Books  F 128.68 .H3 C36
 

Cottrol, Robert J., Diamond, Raymond T., and Ware, Leland.  Brown v. Board of Education:  Caste, Culture, and the Constitution.  Lawrence, Kan.:  University Press of Kansas, 2003.    
Books KF 4155.C68 2003
 

Counts, I. Wilmer.  A life is More Than a Moment:  The Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High.  Bloomington, IN.:  Indiana University Press, 1999.       
Books LC 214.23 .L56 C68 1999p
 

Dawkins, Marvin P., and Kinloch, Graham Charles.  African American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era.  Westport, Conn.:  Praeger, 2000.       
Books GV 981 .D39 2000
 

D’Emilio, John.  Lost Prophet:  The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.  New York:  Free Press, 2003.       
Books E 185.97 .R93 D46 2003
 

Duram, James C.  A Moderate among Extremists:  Dwight D. Eisenhower and the School Desegregation Crisis.  Chicago:  Nelxon-Hall, 1981.       
Books LC 214.2 .D87
 

Findlay, James F.  Church People In the Struggle:  The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993.         
Books E 185.61 .F47 1993
 

Hamilton, Charles V.  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.:  The Political Biography of an American Dilemma.  New York: Atheneum; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.       
Books E 748 .P86 H35 1991
 

In Search of Democracy:  The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wiltins (1920-1977).  New York:  Oxford University, 1999.       
Books  E 185.61 .I513 1999
 

Jackson, John P.  Social Scientists for Social Justice:  Making the Case Against Segregation.  New York:  New York University Press, 2001.       
Books  KF 228 .B76 J33 2001
 

Kinshasa, Kwando Mbiassi and Norris, Clarence.  The Man from Scottsboro:  Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words.  Jefferson, NC.: McFarland, 1997.       
Books KF224 .S34 K56 1997
 

Kirby, John B.  Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era:  Liberalism and Race.  Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 1979.       
Books E 185.6 .K548
 

Korstad, Robert Rodgers.  Civil Rights Unionism:  Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2003.       
Books HD 6515 .T6 K67 2003
 

Ladino, Robyn Duff.  Desegregating Texas Schools:  Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1996.       
Books LC 214.2 .L33 1996
 

Levine, Daniel.  Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement.  New Brunswhick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 2000.       
Books E 185.97 .R93 L49 2000
 

Lewis, David L.  W.E.B. DuBois- The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.  New York:  H. Holt, 2000.       
Books E 185.97 .D73 L485 2000t
 

Litwack, Leon F.  Trouble in Mind:  Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow.  New York:  Knopf, 1998.       
Books E 185.6 .L58 1998
 

Margolick, David.  Strange Fruit:  Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights.  Philadelphia:  Running Press, 2000.       
Books ML 3477 .M37 2000
 

Marsh, Harry D.  Hodding Carter’s Newspaper on School Desegregation, 1954-1955.  Columbia, SC.:  Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1985.       
Books PN 4722 .J6 no. 92
 

McGuire, Phillip.  He, Too, Spoke for Democracy:  Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier.  New York:  Greenwood Press, 1988.       
Books KF 373  .H38 M35 1988
 

McMahon, Kevin J.  Reconsidering Roosevelt on race:  How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2004.       
Books E 807 .M38 2004
 

Mershon, Sherie.  Foxholes & Color Lines:  Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces.  Baltimore, MD.:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.       
Books UB 418 .A47 M47 1998
 

Mohl, Raymond A.  South of the South:  Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2004.       
Books F319 .M6 M75 2004
 

Moore, Jesse Thomas.  A Search for Equality:  The National Urban League, 1910-1961.  University Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.       
Books E185.61 .M784
 

Morris, Aldon D.  The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement:  Black Communities Organizing for Change.  New York:  Free Press; London:  Collier Macmillan, 1984.       
Books E 185 .61 .M845 1984
 

Olson, Lynne.  Freedom’s Daughters:  The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970.  New York, Scribner, 2001.        
Books E 185 .O43 2001
 

Ovington, Mary White.  Black and White Sat Down Together:  The Reminiscences of and NAACP Founder.  New York:  Feminist Press, 1995.       
Books E 185.97 .O95 A3 1995
 

Patterson, James T.  Brown vs. Board of Education:  A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.  Oxford;  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2001.       
Books KF 4155 .P38 2001
 

Pfeffer, Paula F.  A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1990       
Books E 185.97 .R27 P44 1990
 

Remembering Jim Crow:  African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South.  New York:  New Press, 2001.         
Books E 185.61 .R4 2001
 

Robbins, Richard.  Sidelines Activist:  Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1996.       
Books E 185.97 .J66 R63 1996
 

Rustin, Bayard.  Time on Two Crosses:  The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin.  San Francisco:  Cleis Press, 2003.       
Books E 185 .615 .R84 2003
 

Schechter, Patricia Ann.  Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2001.       
Books E 185.97 .W55 S34 2001
 

Schneider, Mark R.  We Return Fighting:  The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age.  Boston:  Northeastern University Press, 2001.       
Books E 185.61 .S355 2001
 

Senna, Carl.  The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights.  New York:  F. Watts, 1994.       
Books PN 4882.5 .S46 1994
 

Shockley, Megan Taylor.  We, Too, are Americans:  African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954.  Urbana:  University of Illinois, 2003.       
Books F 574 .D49 N4825 2003
 

Simon, Scott.  Jackie Robbinson and the Integration of Baseball.  Hoboken, NJ.:  J. Wiley & Sons, 2002.       
Books GV 865 .R6 S57 2002
 

Tearing Down the Color Bar:  An Analysis and Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1989.       
Books HD 6515 .R362 B768 1989
 

Tushnet, Mark V.  Making Civil Rights Law:  Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.       
Books KF 4755 .T87 1994
 

W.E.B Du Bois:  An Encyclopedia.  Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 2001.       
Books E 185.97 .D73 W164 2001
 

Weinstein, Allen.  The Segregation Era, 1863-1954; A Modern Reader.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1970.       
Books E 185 .W434
 

Woods, Jeff.  Black Struggle, Red Scare:  Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University, 2004.       
Books E 185.61 .W846 2004
 

Zangrando, Robert L.  The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1980.             
Books HV 6457 .Z36

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Media Services

Adam Clayton Powell.  New York, NY.:  Filmakers Library, 199-?.        
Media Services  V 6146
 

Bloody Island.  New York, NY.:  Filmakers Library, 1998.        
Media Services  V 6159
 

Eyes on the Prize:  Awakenings (1954-56).  Alexandria, VA.:  PBS Video, 1986.        
Media Services  V 0175
 

Eyes on the Prize:  Fighting Back (1957-1962).  Alexandria, VA.:  PBS Video, 1987.       
Media Services  V 0176
 

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice.  Washington D.C.:  PBS Video, 1989.       
Media Services  V 1652
 

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Programs one to four).  San Francisco, CA.:  California Newsreel, 2002.       
Media Services  V 6230 v.1- v.4
 

Simple Justice.  Alexandria, VA.:  PBS Video, 1993.       
Media Services  V 2161-2163
 

Strange Fruit.  San Francisco, CA.:  California Newsreel, 2002.       
Media Services  V 6239
 

W.E.B. Du Bois:  A Biography in Four voices.  San Francisco:  California Newsreel, 1995.             
Media Services  V 6240

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Reference Collection

D'Emilio, John.  The Civil Rights Struggle:  Leaders in Profile.  New York:  Facts on File, 1979.
Ref E 185 .96 .D38
 

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights:  From Emancipation to the Present.  New York:  Greenwood Press, 1992.        
Ref E 185.61 .E54 1992
 

Luker, Ralph.  Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement.  Lanham, MD.:  Scarecrow Press, 1997.        
Ref E 185.61 .L84 1997

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