Revisiting the Civil Rights Movement

 

 

 

Recent memoirs, novels, and histories provide vivid detail about the Civil Rights Movement. Many have been added to the Appleton Public Library's collections.

 

Adult Non-Fiction        

 

370.19342Bea

Beals, Melba. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. 1994.

 

323.1196Bra

Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire. 1998.

 

975.043Den

Dent, Thomas C. Southern Journey:  A Return to the Civil Rights Movement. 1997.

 

323.092Eve

Evers, Charles. Have No Fear:  The Charles Evers Story. 1997.

 

323.44Fon

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. 1998.

 

323.4092KinF

Franklin, V. P. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1998.

 

323.092BakG

Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker:  Freedom Bound. 1998.

 

323.092Gui

Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice:  Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice. 1998.

 

323.1196Hal

Halberstam, David. The Children. 1998.

 

323.4092Kin

King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1998.

 

328.73092Lew

Lewis, John. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. 1998.

 

 

323.092Par (also 323.092Par Adult Cassette)

Parks, Rosa. Quiet Strength:  The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation. 1994.

 

973.92Wit

Witcover, Jules. The Year the Dream Died:  Revisiting 1968 in America. 1997.

 

323.092You

Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden:  The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. 1996.

 

 

Adult Fiction

 

Covington, Vicki. The Last Hotel for Women. 1996.

 

Heath, William. The Children Bob Moses Led. 1995.

 

Kay, Terry. The Runaway. 1997.

 

Nunez, Elizabeth. Beyond the Limbo Silence. 1998.

                                                                             

Senna, Danzy. Caucasia. 1998.

 

Ward, Robert. Grace:  A Fictional Memoir. 1998.

 

 

Children's Non-Fiction

 

323.1196Dun

Dunn, John M. The Civil Rights Movement. 1998.

 

973.0496Kin

King, Casey. Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen. 1997.

 

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Holland, Gini. Rosa Parks. 1997.

 

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Parks, Rosa. I Am Rosa Parks. 1997.

 

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Parks, Rosa. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth. 1996.

 

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Rhodes, Lisa Renee. Coretta Scott King. 1998.

 

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Roop, Peter. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1998.

 

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Schuman, Michael. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Leader for Civil Rights. 1996.

 

323.4Sie

Siegel, Beatrice. Murder on the highway:  The Viola Liuzzo Story. 1993.

 

 

Web sites

 

www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

We Shall Overcome:  Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary. Includes a reading list, web resources, and information about key events and people of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Martin Luther King, Jr. papers.

 

www.nyise.org/blackhistory/blkhistory.html

Photo tour of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/Seatimeline.html

A Civil Rights timeline.

 

www.ghgcorp.com/hollaway/civil.htm

A status report on civil rights.

 

www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb/

Mississippi Humanities Council Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography.

 

www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights/

National Civil Rights Museum, located in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.

 

www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm

Voices of the Civil Rights Era:  JFK, MLK and Malcolm X.

 

www.usbr.gov/laws/civil.html

Civil Rights Act of 1964. PL88-352; 42USC2000 et seq.

 

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