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This book list contains a mere fraction of what is available on this subject. It is only intended to give you some ideas about the range topic you might pursue for further research.
Bibliographies and reference works
Jim Carrier, A Traveler's Guide to The Civil Rights Movement (2004)
Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin, eds. My Soul Is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 (2000)
Charles Eagles, "Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era," Journal of Southern History 66 (4:2000)
Henry Lewis Gates and Anthony Appiah, Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999)
Alton Hornsby, Jr., Chronology of African American History (1991)
Charles D. Lowery & John F. Marszalek, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (1992)
Ralph E. Luker, Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement (1997)
Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, eds., Civil Rights in the United States (2000)
Arvah E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds. The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (2001)
Anthologies
Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, eds., Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001)
Brenda Gayle Plummer, ed., Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights and International Affairs, 1945-1988 (2003)
Jeanne F Theoharis and Komozi Woodward (eds), Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 (2003)
Autobiographies and biographies
Jervis Anderson, Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen (1998)
Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1986)
Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (1994)
H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die! (1969)
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Turé) with Mike Thelwell, Ready for Revolution (2003)
Katherine Mellen Charron, Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark (2009)
Virginia F. Durr, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (1990)
James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart (1985)
James Forman, Sammy Younge, Jr. (1968)
David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986)
Aaron Henry and Constance Curry, Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning (2000)
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, From the Mississippi Delta (1999)
Hollinger F. Barnard, ed., Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Durr (1990)
Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (2000)
John Lewis, with Michael D'Orso, Walking with the Wind (1998)
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1980)
Margo Perkins, Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties (2003)
Paula Pfeffer, A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement (1990)
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (2003)
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (1987)
Cleveland Sellers, The River of No Return (1990)
Black Power
Devin Fergus, Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 (2009)
Eddie S. Glaude, ed., Is It Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (2002)
Lance Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement (2004)
J. L. Jeffries, Black Power in the Belly of the Beast (2006)
Cedric Johnson, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (2007)
Jeffrey Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (2009)
Peniel Joseph, ed., The Black Power Movement (2006)
----------, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006)
Jennifer B. Smith, An International History of the Black Panther Party (1999)
Kwame Turé (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton, Black Power (1967)
Joy Ann Williamson, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-1975 (2003
Komozi Woodard, A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Black Power Politics (1999)
Comparative studies
Brian Dooley, Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (1998)
George M. Fredrickson, Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (1995)
Andrew Michael Manis, Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Civil Rights and the Culture Wars (2002)
Robert K. Massie, Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years (1997)
Sunita Parikh, The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India (1997)
Laura Pulido, Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (2006)
Culture
Martin Berger, Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography (2011)
Nadine Cohodas, The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss (1997)
Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000)
Allison Graham, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle (2001)
Fred Hobson, But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative (1999)
Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998)
Ingrid Monson, Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa (2007)
Thomas V. Reed, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (2005)
Barbara Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race (1999)
Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit
Maryanne Vollers, Ghosts of Mississippi (1995)
Jeff Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968 (2004)
Gender
Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, eds., Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001)
Vicki Crawford, ed., Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1993)
Steve Estes, I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement (2005)
Shannon Frystak, Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 (2009)
Christina Greene, Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina (2005)
Peter Ling and Sharon Monteith, eds., Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999)
Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street (2010)
Margo Perkins, Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties (2003)
Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream
Rhonda Y. Williams, The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggle against Urban Inequality (2004)
Law and politics
Numan V. Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950's (1999)
Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well (1993)
Mary F. Berry, The Pig Farmer's Daughter (2000)
Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage (1995)
Richard Delgado, When Equality Ends: Stories about Race and Resistance (1999)
J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction (1999)
Steven F. Lawson, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics Since 1941 (1991)
Manning Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, 2nd ed. (1991)
Genna R. McNeil and Leon A. Higinbotham, Jr., Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1983)
Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (2010)
Mark V. Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law (1994)
Hanes Walton and Robert C. Smith, American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom (2000)
Local and regional
Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2006)
Nadine Cohodas, The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss (1997)
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994)
Glenn T. Eskew, But for Birmingham (1997)
Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (1995)
Lance E. Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement (2006)
Michael K. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2008)
Peter B. Levy, Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland (2003)
Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (2002)
Robert J. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom ((1995)
Thomas J., Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008)
Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America (2005)
National and international perspectives
Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003)
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line (2001)
Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights (2000)
------------, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2008)
Simon Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements of the 1960s (2005)
Azza Layton, International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the U.S., 1941-60 (2000)
Brenda G. Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (1996)
Jonathan Rosenberg, How Far the Promised Land (2006)
Jennifer B. Smith, An International History of the Black Panther Party (1999)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (2005)
Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 (2003)
Penny Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (1997)
Organizations and institutions
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle (1981) [SNCC]
Kathleen Cleaver and George Katsiaficas, eds., Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy (2001)
David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986)
Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (2004)
Cheryl Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC (1998)
Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America (2007)
Charles E. Jones, The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered] (2005)
Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006)
Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (2009)
Mark V. Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (2005)
Religion
R. Bentley Anderson, Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956 (2005)
David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (2004)
Angela Dillard, Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (2007)
Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (2000)
Sudarshan Kapur, Raising Up A Prophet: The African-American Encounter With Gandhi (1992)
Andrew Manis, Southern Civil Religions in Conflict, 2nd ed. (2002)
Mark A. Noll, God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (2008)
Nick Salvatore, Singers in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America (2005)
Clive Webb, Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (2001)