Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America: Personal Narratives

"Henry's prophetic voice documents a momentous period in African American history that extends from the Great Depression through the civil rights movement in the pivotal 1960s"

"This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. "

"powerful and personal civil rights memoir"

"A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation’s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement."

"This riveting memoir, one of only a handful of first-person full-length accounts of the civil rights movement, is both a stirring coming-of-age story and a thrilling chronicle of a remarkable era in United States history. "

Young Civil Rights Activists Tell their own Stories

: Muslim College Students in America tell their Life Stories

"compassionate account of the events that took place in the streets, meetings, churches, jails, and in people's hearts and minds in the 1960s civil rights movement." Google Books

"Interviews with men and women, both Black and white, who participated in various ways in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s provide a firsthand history of the movement, its leaders, supporters, and opponents, and its accomplishments."

as told to Frank Sikora
"... firsthand account of the events of the turbulent winter of 1965 - events that changed the lives of all Alabamians and of all Americans. "