Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.
Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New Press, 2009.
Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
Weiss, Nancy J. Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965. New York: Viking, 1987.
Witcover, Jules. The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America. New York: Warner Books, 1997.
Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY)
Adelman, Bob, and Charles Johnson. Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights. (Live Great Photographers Series). New York: Time, Inc., Home Entertainment Books, 2007.
Berger, Martin A. Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Cobb, Charles E. This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Counts, Will; Will Campbell, Ernest Dumas, and Robert S. McCord. A Life Is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Cox, Julian, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2008.
Cox, Julian, Rebekah Jacobs, and Monica Karales. Controversy and Hope: The Civil Rights Photographs of James Karales. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Davidson, Bruce. Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961–1965. Los Angeles: St. Ann’s Press, 2002.
Durham, Michael S. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photographs of Charles Moore. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Baldwin, Frederick C. Freedom’s March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah by Frederick C. Baldwin. Savannah: Telfair Museum of Art, 2008.
Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Raiford, Leigh. Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Randell, Herbert, and Bobs M. Tusa. Faces of Freedom Summer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (FOCUS ON SPECIFIC INCIDENTS—OTHER SOURCES)
THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000.
Garrow, David J., ed. The Walking City: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1969.
Leventhal, Willy S. The Children Coming On: A Retrospective of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1968.
Theoharis, Jeanne. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Boston: Beacon Press, 2013.
Williams, Donnie, and Wayne Greenhaw. The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2006.
16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING
Cobbs, Elizabeth H., and Petric J. Smith. Long Time Coming: An Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing That Rocked the World. Birmingham: Crane Hill, 1994.
Federal Bureau of Investigation vault website: https://vault.fbi.gov /16th%20Street%20Church%20Bombing%20 (in 50 parts)
Sikora, Frank. Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991.
MISSISSIPPI BURNING (THE KILLING OF THREE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS)
Ball, Howard. Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
———. Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Cagin, Seth, and Phillip Drey. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
Federal Bureau of Investigation vault website: https://vault.fbi.gov /Mississippi%20Burning%20(MIBURN)%20Case (in 9 parts)
Huie, William Bradford. Three Lives for Mississippi, 2nd edition with introduction by Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: New American Library, 1968.
U.S. Department of Justice. Report to the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi. Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, 2016: http://www.ago.state.ms.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/06 /DOJ-Report-to-Mississippi-Attorney-General-Jim-Hood.pdf.
Watson, Bruce. Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. New York: Viking Press, 2010
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 1963
Euchner, Charles C. Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington. Boston: Beacon Press, 2010.
Freed, Leonard, photographer. This Is the Day: The March on Washington. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013.
Gentile, Thomas. March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Washington, DC: New Day Publications, 1983.
Hansen, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
Jones, William P. March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Kelly, Kitty. Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretlick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013.
SELMA: VOTING RIGHTS
Fager, Charles. Selma, 1965. New York: Scribner, 1974. Several revised and updated editions with more photos as Selma, 1965: The March That Changed the South.
Garrow, David J. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
Mills, Thornton J., III. Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery and Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (POLITICAL ASPECTS—STATES, CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT, AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH)
Berman, William C. The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970.
Berry, Mary Frances. And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Black, Earl. Southern Governors and Civil Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Brauer, Carl M. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
Bryant, Nick. The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
Burk, Robert Frederick. The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Gardner, Michael R. Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
Golden, Harry. Mr. Kennedy and the Negroes. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1964.
Graham, Hugh Davis. Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960–1972. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Kotz, Nick. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
McCoy, Donald, and Richard T. Reuten. Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1988.
McKee, Guian A., Kent B. Germany, David C. Carter, and Timothy Naftali, eds. The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, Mississippi Burning
and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act, June 1, 1964–July 4, 1964. Volumes 7 and 8. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011.
Mann, Robert. When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954–1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
———. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Mills, Thornton J., III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery and Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Nicols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Niven, David. The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of Moral Compromise. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Rosenberg, Jonathan, and Zachery Karabell. Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Stern, Mark. Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Wolk, Allan. The Presidency and Black Civil Rights: Eisenhower to Nixon. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971.
KING’S FINAL DAYS (MEMPHIS STRIKE)
Bailey, D’Army. Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Journey. Memphis: Towery Publishing, 1993.
Honey, Michael K. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
Smiley, Tavis, with David Riz. The Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year. New York: Little, Brown, 2014.
Withers, Ernest C. I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memphis, TN: Memphis Publishing, 1993.
Also, the website of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME): http://www.afscme.org /union/history/mlk and http://www.afscme.org/union/history /mlk/1968-afscme-memphis-sanitation-workers-strike-chronology
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE): http://www.congressofracial equality.org and http://www.core-online.org
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): http://www.naacp.org
National Urban League: http://nul.iamempowered.com
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC): http:// nationalsclc.org
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The organization no longer exists, but see http://www.sncclegacyproject.org
BLACK POWER MOVEMENT: BLACK MUSLIMS, BLACK PANTHERS, AND OTHERS (PRIMARY SOURCES)
Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: The Struggle of Liberation in America. New York: Random House, 1967.
Carmichael, Stokely, with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). New York: Scribner, 2003.
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
———. Soul on Fire. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1978.
Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1974.
Foner, Philip S., ed. The Black Panthers Speak. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1970.
Muhammad, Elijah. Message to the Black Man in America. Chicago: Elijah Muhammad House of Islam, 1965.
Heath, G. Louis, ed. The Black Panther Leaders Speak: Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and Company Speak through the Black Panther Party Official Newspaper. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1976.
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, 1966.
Newton, Huey P. To Die for the People. New York: Random House, 1972.
Newton, Huey P., and J. Herman Blake. Revolutionary Suicide. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Seale, Bobby. A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale. New York: Times Books, 1978.
———. Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House, 1970.
Sellers, Cleveland, and Robert Terrell. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. New York: William Morrow, 1973.
BLACK POWER MOVEMENT (GENERAL SOURCES)
Austin, Curtis J. Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
Bloom, Joshua. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
Cleaver, Kathleen, and George Katsiaficas. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Haines, Herbert. Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream, 1954–1970. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
Joseph, Peniel E. Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative of the History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Lomax, Louis E. When the Word Is Given … : A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1963.
Pearson, Hugh. The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994.
Van Deburg, William L. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement in American Culture, 1965–1975. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
“BLACK POWER” WEBSITES
The Black Panthers: http://theblackpanthers.com/home/
Nation of Islam (formerly called the Black Muslims): http://www .noi.org
KING ASSASSINATION AND AFTERMATH (NON-CONSPIRACY WORKS)
Ayton, Mel. A Racial Crime: James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King. Las Vegas: Arche Books Publishing, 2005
Blair, Clay, Jr. The Strange Case of James Earl Ray: The Man Who Murdered Martin Luther King. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
Burns, Rebecca. Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation. New York: Scribner, 2011.
Clarke, James W. American Assassins: The Darker Side of American Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Frank, Gerold. An American Death: The True Story of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Greatest Manhunt of Our Time. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
Gilbert, Ben W., and the staff of the Washington Post. Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968. New York: F. A. Praeger, 1968.
Huie, William Bradford. He Slew the Dreamer: My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King. New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. Later published in 1977 with a more alluring and enticing title, Did the FBI Kill Martin Luther King?
James Earl Ray: The Man and the Mystery. A&E Television Network, 1998. 50 minutes (DVD).
The James Earl Ray Extradition File: Papers Submitted to Great Britain for the Extradition of James Earl Ray to Face Trial for the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Lemma Publishing, 1971.
Justice for MLK: The Hunt for James Earl Ray. Cream Productions, in association with the American Heroes Channel (AHC), 2016. 58 minutes (documentary).
Kamin, Ben. Room 306: The National Story of the Lorraine Motel. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012.
Lomax, Louis E. To Kill a Black Man: The Shocking Parallel in the Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968.
McMillan, George. The Making of an Assassin: The Life of James Earl Ray. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
MLK: The Assassination Tapes. Smithsonian Channel, 2012. 46 minutes. (DVD)
Obsequies Martin Luther King, Jr.: Tuesday, April 9, 1968, 10:30 A.M. Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2:00 P.M. The Campus of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. No publisher, 1968. (twelve-page funeral program)
Posner, Ger
ald. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Random House, 1998.
Risen, Clay. A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Roads to Memphis: Two Paths, One Ending (American Experience Series). Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2010. 90 minutes (documentary).
Ryan, P. L. The Boys of Birmingham. N.p.: Jimerson Publishing Company, 2009.
Seigenthaler, John. A Search for Justice. Nashville, TN: Aurora Publishers, 1971.
Shelby County Register of Deeds. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Investigation. A comprehensive resource of the investigation, evidence, court record, trial, etc. can be found at http://register .shelby.tn.us/media/mlk/
Sides, Hampton. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin. New York: Doubleday Garden City, 2010.
U.S. Department of Justice. Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Security and Assassination Investigation. Washington, DC: The Task Force, 1977, https://vault.fbi.gov/Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20Jr./Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20Jr.%20Part%201%20of%202/view
U.S. Department of Justice. Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington, DC: Department of Justice, June 2000. Refuting the jury’s verdict in King v. Jowers, a civil suit in Tennessee state court that found that Loyd Jowers, a former Memphis tavern owner, and unnamed individuals, including unspecified government agencies, participated in the conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King: https://www.justice.gov/crt/united -states-department-justice-investigation-recent-allegations-regarding-assassination-dr; and https://www.justice.gov/crt/list-attachments-0
U.S. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Assassinations. (13 volumes, “The Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King,” and 1 volume “Final Report”). 95th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1979. This report is available online at http://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Martin_Luther _King_Assassination.html
U.S. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Assassinations. “Staff Report—Compilation of the Statements of James Earl Ray.” 95th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1978.
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