Miscellaneous - Primary Sources: People - Civil Rights in America - LibGuides at Christopher Newport University

Book Sources: People - Miscellaneous

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Bus Ride to Justice by Fred D. Gray
Call Number: KF373.G685 A3 1995
ISBN: 1881320235
"Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the desegregation of Alabama schools, and the Selma march."
Civilization and Black Progress by Alexander Crummell
Call Number: E185.5 .C955 1995
ISBN: 081391602X
Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South
Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell by Jack H. O'Dell
Call Number: E185.61 .O29 2010
ISBN: 0520259580
"This book collects for the first time the black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell and restores one of the great unsung heroes of the civil rights movement to his rightful place in the historical record."
The Essential Mario Savio by Robert Cohen (Editor)
Call Number: JC599.U6 E87 2014
ISBN: 0520283384
Mary McLeod Bethune : Building a Better World
Call Number: E185.97.B34 A25 1999
ISBN: 0253336260
essays and selected documents
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height
Call Number: E185.97.H444 A3 2005
ISBN: 1586482866
Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches by Leslie Dunbar
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 0813157277
T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 by Shawn Leigh Alexander
Call Number: E185.6 .F675 2008
ISBN: 0813032326
"For nearly five decades his was one of the most powerful voices in the press."
To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: The Life and Writings of Hosea Easton by George R. Price and James Brewer Stewart
Call Number: E185.18 .E27 1999
ISBN: 1558491856
"A black minister from New England, Easton rose to prominence during the 1820s and 1830s by joining in the struggle of free African Americans to resist southern slavery and secure racial equality."
Watch Me Fly by Myrlie Evers-Williams with Melinda Blau
Call Number: E185.97.E95 A3 1999
ISBN: 0316255203
"An instructive autobiography of the former chairwoman of the NAACP and heroic widow of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers follows her struggles to become educated, raise three children alone, and achieve selfhood."

Primary Sources: People - Civil Rights in America: Miscellaneous

Book Sources: People - Miscellaneous