LibGuides: HIST 341: The Long Civil Rights Movement: Books & Media

Books of Interest

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57943 1992
ISBN: 0345379756
2nd copy BP223.Z8 L5743 1965
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson (editor)
Call Number: E185.97.K5 A52 2001
ISBN: 9780446676502
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson
Call Number: F264.O95 T97 2004
ISBN: 1400083117
"On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement."
The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History by Sanford Wexler
Call Number: E185.61 .W548 1993
ISBN: 081602748X
The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change by Joseph E. Luders
Call Number: E185.61 .L82 2010
ISBN: 0521133394
Publication Date: 2010-01-25
The Civil Rights Movement in America by Peter B. Levy (Editor)
Call Number: E185.61 .C6148 2015
ISBN: 1610697618
The Civil Rights Movement in America: Essays by Charles W. Eagles (Editor)
Call Number: E185.615 .C585 1986
ISBN: 0878052984
Core; a Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968 by August Meier; Elliott Rudwick
Call Number: E185.61.M511 C7
ISBN: 0195016270
Defying Dixie by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Call Number: HN79.A13 G54 2008
ISBN: 0393062449
Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen by Lawrence P. Scott
Call Number: UG834.A37 S36 1994
ISBN: 0870133470
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick
Call Number: F419.L7 M37 2011
ISBN: 0300141939
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy by Susan M. Reverby
Call Number: R853.H8 R48 2009
ISBN: 9780807833100
For All the World to See by Maurice Berger; Thulani Davis (Foreword by)
Call Number: P94.5.A372 U534 2010
ISBN: 0300121318
Freedom's Daughters by Lynne Olson
Call Number: E185 .O43 2001
ISBN: 0684850125
The unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Freedom to Differ by Diane Helene Miller
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 M55 1998
ISBN: 081475595X
The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian struggle for Civil Rights
Going South by Debra L. Schultz; Blanche Wiesen Cook
Call Number: E185.61 .S364 2001
ISBN: 0814797741
Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC by Betty Garman Robinson, et al. (Editor)
Call Number: E185.96 .H24 2010
ISBN: 0252035577
Lift Every Voice by Patricia Sullivan
Call Number: E185.5.N276 S85 2009
ISBN: 1595584463
The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Personal Politics by Sara Evans
Call Number: HQ1426.E92 P4
ISBN: 0394419111
Publication Date: 1979-01-01
The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990 by Jennifer Delton
Call Number: HD4903.5.U58 D55 2009
ISBN: 0521515092
"The book examines the pioneering corporations that experimented with integration in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as corporate responses to the civil rights movement and urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread adoption of affirmative action in the 1980s and 1990s."
Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
Call Number: F334.M753 P373 2000
ISBN: 0670891606
Speak Now Against the Day by John Egerton
Call Number: E185.61 .E28 1994
ISBN: 0679408088
The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement by Jon Meacham
Call Number: E185.61 .V744 2001
ISBN: 0679462961
"...showcases what forty of the nation's best writers — including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright — had to say about the central domestic drama of the American Century."
Want to Start a Revolution? by Dayo F. Gore et al.
Call Number: E185.615 .W328 2009
ISBN: 0814783139
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
We Ain't What We Ought to Be by Stephen Tuck
Call Number: E185 .T797 2010
ISBN: 0674036263
The Black Freedom Struggle, from Emancipation to Obama
While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry with Denise George
Call Number: F334.B653 M356 2011
ISBN: 1414336365
A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Call Number: E184.A1 B598 2001
ISBN: 1588260046
White Women's Rights by Louise Michele Newman
Call Number: HQ1410 .N475 1999
ISBN: 0195086929
The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States

Media of Interest

A selection of audio-visual items available in Trible Library.

All items are available upstairs in the Media Center.

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4 Little Girls (an HBO documentary film)
Call Number: F334.B69 N3 2000
ISBN: 0783118155
When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins.
America's Civil Rights Movement by Charles Guggenheim
Call Number: E185.61 .A44 1992
"Video: the movement remembered by participants, with historical footage ; Text: 108 pages of history, profiles and photos ; Teacher's guide: with adaptable day-by-day lesson plans"--Cover of container.
American Experience. 1964 by Stephen Ives
Call Number: E846 .A1865 2014
ISBN: 9781608830411
Documentary film from PBS television show The American Experience. "Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the most prominent figures of the time."
American Experience. Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson
Call Number: E185.61 .F85 2011
ISBN: 9781608834013
Eyes on the Prize by PBS Video
Call Number: E185.615 E941 2006
Vols. 1-3 have subtitle: America's civil rights years, 1954 to 1965
Vols. 4-7 have subtitle: America at the racial crossroads, 1965 to 1985
Vols. 4-7 also known as: Eyes on the prize II
King: A Filmed Record-- Montgomery to Memphis by The Martin Luther King Foundation
Call Number: E185.97.K5 K56 2013
"Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970."
Little Rock Central: 50 years later by HBO Documentary Films
Call Number: LC214.23.L56 L58 2007
The Longoria Affair by John J. Valadez
Call Number: F395.M5 L66 2010
"A documentary on the Mexican-American civil rights movement. "
The Murder of Emmett Till
Call Number: HV6465.M7 M87 2004
ISBN: 079369552X
The Rosa Parks Story by Paris Qualles
Call Number: E185.97.P3 R66 2002
"Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement."
Scottsboro: an American Tragedy by Barak Goodman
Call Number: KF224.S36 S36 2005
" ...The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container.
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement [sound recording] by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Call Number: M1977.C47 V65 1997
Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966.
Recorded at public meetings at various locations and times between 1960 and 1966.
We shall Remain: America through Native Eyes by Sharon Grimberg
Call Number: E77 .W4 2009
ISBN: 9780793670260
Without Apology by Susan Hamovitch
Call Number: HV891 .W47 2004
"Documents the consequences of the institutionalization of Susan Hamovitch's autistic and developmentally disabled brother Alan in 1958. After the conditions of the state-run facility Letchworth Village are exposed, the radical overhaul of medical thought, and the intervention of the civil rights movement for the developmentally disabled ..."

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