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Bibliography of Resources on Civil Rights and Black History in South Florida

Aimin, Zhang. The Origins of African American Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1956. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.

Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph; a Biographical Portrait. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Print.

---. Bayard Rustin :Troubles I've seen: A Biography. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. Print.

Baldwin, Lewis V. The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 2002. Print.

Balkin, Jack M., and Cristina M. Rodriguez. "An Interactive Civil Rights Chronology." BrownvBoard.com. Ed. Pablo Aguero. Yale. 5/5/2009 <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/brown/index.html>.

"Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South." Center for Documentary Studies. n.d. Duke University. 5/6/2009 <http://cds.aas.duke.edu/btv/index.html>.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. 2007. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. 5/6/2009 <http://www.bcri.org/index.html>.

The Black Archives. 2008. The Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida. 2/15/2008 <http://www.theblackarchives.org/>.

The Bob Simms Collection: An Activist’s Life and Legacy. n.d. University of Miami Libraries. 5/7/2009 <http://scholar.library.miami.edu/bobsimms/>.

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. 1st Touchstone ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Print.

Brown @ 50 Fullfilling the Promise. 2004. Howard University School of Law. 5/6/2009 <http://www.brownat50.org/>.

Bruns, Roger. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. Print.

Carson, Clayborne. The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1991. Print.

---. In Struggle :SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981. Print.

Chafe, William Henry, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Rodgers Korstad. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, in association with Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies of Duke University, 2001. Print.

The Civil Rights Digital Library. 2009. The Digital Library of Georgia. 5/5/2009 <http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/>.

"The Civil Rights Era." The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. 2008. Library of Congress. 5/5/2009 <http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html>.

"Civil Rights Heritage Center." Indiana University South Bend. n.d. Indiana University. 5/6/2009 <http://www.iusb.edu/~civilrts/>.

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. 2006. McCain Library & Archive, The University of Southern Mississippi. 5/5/2009 <http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/index.html>.

"The Civil Rights Movement." History Now: A Quarterly Journal. June 2006. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 5/5/2009 <http://www.historynow.org/06_2006/>.

"The Civil Rights Movement." The Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change. 2008. Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. 4/29/2009 <http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/civil.html>.

The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Experience in Miami. 2009. University of Miami Libraries. 5/7/2009 <http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamiCivilRights/>.

Civil Rights Movement Veterans. 2009. 5/5/2009 <http://www.crmvet.org/>.

Clark, Septima Poinsette, and Cynthia Stokes Brown. Ready from within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1990. Print.

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V. P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Print.  

Cook, Robert. Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. London; New York: Longman, 1998. Print.

Curry, Constance, et al. Deep in our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. Print.

Davis, Thulani, and Howard Chapnick. Malcolm X: The Great Photographs. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1993. Print.

Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Print.

Dunn, Marvin. Black Miami in the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Print.

Evers, Charles. Evers. New York: World Pub. Co, 1971. Print.

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement. Dir. Blackside, Inc. Prod. Hampton Henry, Jon Else, Judy Richardson, et al. Perf. Bond, Julian. DVD. PBS Home Video, 1992.

"Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985." American Experience. 2006. PBS Online. 5/5/2009 <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/>.

Fairclough, Adam. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000. New York: Viking, 2001. Print.

Farber, David R., and Beth L. Bailey. The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Print.

Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Arbor House, 1985. Print.

Fleischmann, Thomas F. "Image and Reality: Perceptions of Early Black Miami by the "Miami Metropolis", 1896-1900." Master of Arts University of Miami, 1987. Print.

Floyd, Thomas W. Integration is a Bitch. Gary, Indiana: Opinion News Syndicate, 1969. Print. The Bob Simms Collection, Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries.

Foner, Philip Sheldon. The Black Panthers Speak. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970. Print.

Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Group, 2002. Web.

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. 8th ed. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2000. Print.

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1986. Print.

---. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978. Print.

Gaskin, John Wesley. "Responses to Racial Segregation in a Black Miami Community." Masters of Arts Florida International University, 1999. Print.

Gibson, Thelma Vernell Anderson, Helen McGuire, and H. Carter. Forbearance: The Life Story of a Cocoanut Grove Native. Homestead, Fla.: Helena Enterprises, 2000. Print.

Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. New York: Wiley, 1998. Print.

Gray, Fred D. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books, 1998. Web.

Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1994. Print.

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement. 2008. News-Record.com. 5/6/2009 <http://www.sitins.com/>.

Gregory, Dick, and James R. McGraw. Up from Nigger. New York: Stein and Day, 1976. Print.

Grossman, Cathy. "Teacher Interns Hit Street to Experience Ghetto Life: They Spent 48 Hours in Ghetto to Learn." The Miami Herald 4 Feb. 1974, sec. B: 1, 3.

Halberstam, David. The Children. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1998. Print.

Hampton, Henry, Steve Fayer, and Sarah Flynn. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Print.

Harris, Daryl B. The Logic of Black Urban Rebellions: Challenging the Dynamics of White Domination in Miami. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. Print.

Hedgeman, Anna Arnold. The Trumpet Sounds a Memoir of Negro Leadership. 1st ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Print.

Helfer, Andrew, and Randy DuBurke. Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.

Hill, Robert A., and Marcus Garvey. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. 1-10 Vol. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Print.  

The History of Jim Crow. 5/5/2009 <http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/>.

Holloway, Jonathan Scott, and Ben Keppel. Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.

Jenkins, Robert L., and Mfanya Donald Tryman. The Malcolm X Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Print.

Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954- 68. 1st ed. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996. Print.

Keppel, Ben. The Work of Democracy: Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. Print.

King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Print.

King, Martin Luther. Why we can't Wait. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Print.

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. Rev. and expand ed. New York: Knopf, 2004. Print.

Kurlansky, Mark. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World. 1st ed. New York: Ballantine, 2004. Print.

Lawson, Steven F. Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print.

---. Running for Freedom :Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Print.

Lazerow, Jama, and Yohuru R. Williams. In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Print.

Levy, Peter B. Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Print.

---. Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Print.

Lewis, John, and Michael D'Orso. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Print.

Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Print.

Logan, John R. The State of Public School Integration. 2004. Brown University. 2/15/2008 <http://www.s4.brown.edu/schoolsegregation/index.htm>.

Malcolm X. Dir. Lee, Spike. Pref. Marvin Worth, et al. DVD. Warner Home Video; Warner Bros; Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks; Largo International N.V, 2000.

Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006. 3rd ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Print.

Markmann, Charles Lam. The Noblest Cry: a History of the American Civil Liberties Union. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965. Print.

"Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement." The Seattle Times. 2009. The Seattle Times Company. 5/5/2009 <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/>.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. 2005. Stanford University. 5/5/2009 <http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/>.

McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print.

McNeil, Genna Rae. Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Print.

McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Print.

Meier, August, et al. Black Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century. 2d ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. Print.

Metropolitan Dade County (Fla.). Community Relations Board. Annual Report. Miami, Fla.: The Board, 1964. Print. The Bob Simms Collection, Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries.

Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Dutton, 1993. Print.

Moore, Charles. Powerful Days in Black and White. n.d. KODAK. 5/6/2009 <http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml>.

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

Murray, Pauli, and Verge Lake. States' Laws on Race and Color, and Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts. Cincinnati: Woman's Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, 1951. Print.

---. States' Laws on Race and Color, and Appendices Containing International Documents, Federal Laws and Regulations, Local Ordinances and Charts--1955 Supplement. Cincinnati: Woman's Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, 1955. Print.

"National Civil Rights Museum at The Lorraine Motel." National Civil Rights Museum. 2009. 5/5/2009 <http://civilrightsmuseum.org/home.htm>.

Newton, Huey P., David Hilliard, and Donald Weise. The Huey P. Newton Reader. A Seven Stories Press 1st ed. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Print.

Norrell, Robert J. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1985. Print.

Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Print.

"Oh Freedom Over Me." American Radio Works. 2009. American Public Media. 5/6/2009 <http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/oh_freedom/>.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Scribner, 2001. Print.

Perry, Bruce. Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America. Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill, 1991. Print.

Powledge, Fred. Free at Last?: The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who made it. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Print.

Race and Place: An African American Community in the Jim Crow South. 2002. University of Virginia. 2/15/2008 <http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/cvilleenter.html>.

Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: Putnam, 1977. Print.

"Remembering Jim Crow." American Radio Works. 2009. American Public Media. 5/6/2009 <http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/index.html>.

Rhodes, Jane. Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon. New York: New Press, 2007. Print.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. 2002. PBS Online. 5/6/2009 <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/>.

Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, and David J. Garrow. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started it: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. Print.

Rogers, Kim Lacy. Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1993. Print.

Schultz, Debra L. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Print.

Seymour Samet. Seymour Samet Papers.n.d., 1944-1995 (bulk dates 1960-1989) MS Collection. Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries

Shames, Stephen, and Charles E. Jones. The Black Panthers: Photographs. 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Aperture, 2006. Print.

Shull, Carol D., Beth L. Savage, and Patrick Andrus. "Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary." We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement. 2001. National Park Services; U.S. Department of the Interior; The Federal Highway Administration; U.S. Department of Transportation; The National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. 4/29/2009 <http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm>.

Spofford, Tim. Lynch Street. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988. NetLibrary, Inc. Web.

Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Print.

Terrill, Robert. Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. Print.

Thomas, Abraham. A Real American Hero: Dr. John Ollis Langford Brown, Sr.: An Authorized Biography. Miami, FL: Cafronia Haynes Thomas, 2004. Print.

Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami: A Digital Archive. University of Miami Libraries. 2/15/2008 <http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/>.

Tyner, James A. The Geography of Malcolm X: Black Radicalism and the Remaking of American Space. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.

United States and Dept. of Justice. United States Department of Justice Investigation of Recent Allegations regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2000

United States and National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Miami Study Team. Miami Report :The Report of the Miami Study Team on Civil Disturbances in Miami, Florida during the Week of August 5, 1968. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1969

"Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Civil Rights Movement Unit." Alabama Department of Archives and History: Teacher Resources. 2005. 4/29/2009 <http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights.html>.

"USM Oral History Civil Rights Documentation Project." Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. Ed. Stephen Sloan. 2005. University of Southern Mississippi. 5/6/2009 <http://www.usm.edu/crdp/>.

Verney, Kevern. Black Civil Rights in America. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.

Voices of Civil Rights. 2004. AARP; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR); the Library of Congress. 4/29/2009 <http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/>.

Watson, Denton L. Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws. 1st ed. New York: Morrow, 1990. Print.

Webb, Clive. Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. Print.

Weiss, Nancy J. Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. Print.

Whitman, Mark. Removing a Badge of Slavery: The Record of Brown v. Board of Education. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Pub., 1993. Print.

Williams, Juan, and Julian Bond. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954- 1965. New York, NY: Viking, 1987. Print.

Witt, Andrew. The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977. New York: Routledge, 2007. Print.

X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 2nd Ballantine Books hardcover ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. Print.

Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. Print.

---. A Way Out of no Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young. Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, 1994. Print.

Zinn, Howard. SNCC, the New Abolitionists. 2d ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965. Print.

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Prepared by Jameatris Y. Johnson
Librarian Assistant Professor
Africana Studies, Anthropology & Communication
University of Miami
2009-05-09