Diversity Resources

The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement

Compiled by Sandy Folsom. For more information and/or reference assistance, please contact Sandy Folsom (Email: sandy.l.folsom@cmich.edu, Phone: 989-774-2166) or ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Park Library (Phone: 774-3470).

General Collection | Media Services | Reference Collection

General Collection

Adams, Julianne Lewis, and DeBlack, Thomas. Civil Obedience: An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954-1965. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1995.
Books LC 214.23 .F39 A33 1995

Atkinson, Pansye S. Brown vs. Topeka: An African American's View: Desegregation and Miseducation. Chicago ILL.: African Americans Images, 1993.
Books KF 4155 .A93 1993x

Avery, Sheldon. Up From Washington: William Pickens and the Negro Struggle for Equality, 1900-1954. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1989.
Books E 185.97 .P593 A95 1989

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Vikings, 2000.
Books F 334 .M753 P373 2000

Brown, Mary Jane. Eradicating This Evil: Women in American Anti-lynching Movement, 1892-1940. New York: Garland Pub., 2000. Books HV 6457 .B76 2000

Burns, Stewart. Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Books F334 .M79 N39 1997

Capeci, Dominic J. The Harlem Riot of 1943. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.
Books F 128.68 .H3 C36

Cottrol, Robert J., Diamond, Raymond T., and Ware, Leland. Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Books KF 4155.C68 2003

Counts, I. Wilmer. A life is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High. Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Books LC 214.23 .L56 C68 1999p

Dawkins, Marvin P., and Kinloch, Graham Charles. African American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.
Books GV 981 .D39 2000

D’Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Free Press, 2003.
Books E 185.97 .R93 D46 2003

Duram, James C. A Moderate among Extremists: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the School Desegregation Crisis. Chicago: Nelxon-Hall, 1981.
Books LC 214.2 .D87

Findlay, James F. Church People In the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Books E 185.61 .F47 1993

Hamilton, Charles V. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma. New York: Atheneum; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
Books E 748 .P86 H35 1991

In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wiltins (1920-1977). New York: Oxford University, 1999.
Books E 185.61 .I513 1999

Jackson, John P. Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Books KF 228 .B76 J33 2001

Kinshasa, Kwando Mbiassi and Norris, Clarence. The Man from Scottsboro: Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words. Jefferson, NC.: McFarland, 1997.
Books KF224 .S34 K56 1997

Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.
Books E 185.6 .K548

Korstad, Robert Rodgers. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Books HD 6515 .T6 K67 2003

Ladino, Robyn Duff. Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Books LC 214.2 .L33 1996

Levine, Daniel. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement. New Brunswhick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Books E 185.97 .R93 L49 2000

Lewis, David L. W.E.B. DuBois- The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: H. Holt, 2000.
Books E 185.97 .D73 L485 2000t

Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Books E 185.6 .L58 1998

Margolick, David. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2000.
Books ML 3477 .M37 2000

Marsh, Harry D. Hodding Carter’s Newspaper on School Desegregation, 1954-1955. Columbia, SC.: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1985.
Books PN 4722 .J6 no. 92

McGuire, Phillip. He, Too, Spoke for Democracy: Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Books KF 373 .H38 M35 1988

McMahon, Kevin J. Reconsidering Roosevelt on race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Books E 807 .M38 2004

Mershon, Sherie. Foxholes & Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces. Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Books UB 418 .A47 M47 1998

Mohl, Raymond A. South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Books F319 .M6 M75 2004

Moore, Jesse Thomas. A Search for Equality: The National Urban League, 1910-1961. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.
Books E185.61 .M784

Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1984.
Books E 185 .61 .M845 1984

Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York, Scribner, 2001.
Books E 185 .O43 2001

Ovington, Mary White. Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of and NAACP Founder. New York: Feminist Press, 1995.
Books E 185.97 .O95 A3 1995

Patterson, James T. Brown vs. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Books KF 4155 .P38 2001

Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990
Books E 185.97 .R27 P44 1990

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.
Books E 185.61 .R4 2001

Robbins, Richard. Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
Books E 185.97 .J66 R63 1996

Rustin, Bayard. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003.
Books E 185 .615 .R84 2003

Schechter, Patricia Ann. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Books E 185.97 .W55 S34 2001

Schneider, Mark R. We Return Fighting: The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.
Books E 185.61 .S355 2001

Senna, Carl. The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: F. Watts, 1994.
Books PN 4882.5 .S46 1994

Shockley, Megan Taylor. We, Too, are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2003.
Books F 574 .D49 N4825 2003

Simon, Scott. Jackie Robbinson and the Integration of Baseball. Hoboken, NJ.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Books GV 865 .R6 S57 2002

Tearing Down the Color Bar: An Analysis and Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Books HD 6515 .R362 B768 1989

Tushnet, Mark V. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Books KF 4755 .T87 1994

W.E.B Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Books E 185.97 .D73 W164 2001

Weinstein, Allen. The Segregation Era, 1863-1954; A Modern Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Books E 185 .W434

Woods, Jeff. Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2004.
Books E 185.61 .W846 2004

Zangrando, Robert L. The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Books HV 6457 .Z36

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Media Services

Adam Clayton Powell. New York, NY.: Filmakers Library, 199-?.
Media Services V 6146

Bloody Island. New York, NY.: Filmakers Library, 1998.
Media Services V 6159

Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954-56). Alexandria, VA.: PBS Video, 1986.
Media Services V 0175

Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back (1957-1962). Alexandria, VA.: PBS Video, 1987.
Media Services V 0176

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice. Washington D.C.: PBS Video, 1989.
Media Services V 1652

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (Programs one to four). San Francisco, CA.: California Newsreel, 2002.
Media Services V 6230 v.1- v.4

Simple Justice. Alexandria, VA.: PBS Video, 1993.
Media Services V 2161-2163

Strange Fruit. San Francisco, CA.: California Newsreel, 2002.
Media Services V 6239

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four voices. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1995.
Media Services V 6240

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Reference Collection

D'Emilio, John. The Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile. New York: Facts on File, 1979.
Ref E 185 .96 .D38

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Ref E 185.61 .E54 1992

Luker, Ralph. Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Ref E 185.61 .L84 1997

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