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CIVIL RIGHTS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abernathy, Ralph, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down. 323.092 A146A

Alder, David A.,  A Picture Book of Rose Parks. B PARKS RO

Ashmore, Harry S., Civil Rights and Wrongs. 973.0496073 A827C

Bates, Daisy, Long Shadow of Little Rock.  976.773 B329L 1987

Beals, Melba, Warriors Don't Cry. 370.19342 B366W1995

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters. 973.0496 B816P

Branch, Taylor, Pillar of Fire. 323.1196B816P

Cagin, Seth, We Are Not Afraid. 976.2063 C131W

Cashman, Sean Dennis, African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights. 323.1196073 C338A

Coleman, Evelyn, White Socks Only.  FIC COLE

Counts, Ira Wilmer,  Life is More Than a Moment. 378.76733 C855L

Crawford, Vicki L., Women in the Civil Rights Movement 973.0496 W872

Davis, Ossie,  Just Like Martin. FIC DAVI

Dees, Morris, A Season for Justice. 323.75085 D312S

Dellums, Ronald V., Lying Down with the Lions. 328.73 D358L

Dent, Thomas C., Southern Journey. 975.043 D414S

Dickerson, Dennis C., Militant Mediator. 323.092 D549m

Durr, Virginia Foster, Outside the Magic Circle. 973.9 D9650

Dyson, Michael Eric, I May Not Get There With You. 323.092 K53Yd

Dyson, Michael Eric, Making Malcolm. 320.54092 X1YDM

Eagles, Charles W., Outside Agitator. 323.092 D186YE

Eskew, Glenn T., But for Birmingham. 323.1196073 E75b

Evers, Charles, Have No Fear. 323.092 E93H

Fager, Charles, Selma, 1965. 323.4 F153S1985

Fairclough, Adam, Martin Luther King Jr. 323.092 K53Yfad

Farmer, James, Lay Bare the Heart. 323.4 F233L

Friese, Kai, Rosa Parks. 323 P252YF

Garrow, David J., Protest at Selma. 324.15 G243P

Gray, Fred D., Bus Ride to Justice. 342.73085 G778B

Greenfield, Eloise, Rosa Parks.Juv. Biog. B PARKS

Greenberg, Jack, Crusaders in the Courts. 342.730873 G798C

Halberstam, David, The Children. 323.196073 H157C

Harding, Vincent, Hope and History. 973.0496073 H791H

Haskins, James, Bayard Rustin. Juv. Biog. B RUSTIN

Haskins, James, The Freedom Rides. 323.1196073H

Honigsberg, Peter Jan,  Crossing the Border:A Civil Rights Memoir.  976.300496 H773c

King, Casey, Oh Freedom! 973.0496073K

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 323.092 K53a

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. 323.4092 K53P

King, Mary, Freedom Song. 323.1196073 K53F

Landess, Tom, Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race. 973.927 J13YL

Lawrence, Jacob, Harriet and the Promised Land. B TUBMAN H

Littlesugar, Amy,  Tree of Hope. FIC LITTLE

Lorbiecki, Marybeth, Sister Anne's Hands. FIC LOR

Lucas, Eileen, Cracking the Wall. 379.263L

Miller, William, The Bus Ride,  FIC MILLE

Mitchell, Margaree King, Granddaddy's Gift. E MITC

Norrell, Robert J., Reaping the Whirlwind. 305.8009761 N853R

O'Reilly, Kenneth, Racial Matters. 973.0496073 O66R

Parks, Rosa, Dear Mrs. Parks. B PARKS ROSA

Parks, Rosa,  Rosa Parks: My Story. B PARKSROSA

Parks, Rosa, Quiet Strength. 323.092 P252q

Pfeffer, Paula F., Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. 323 R192YP

Raines, Howell, My Soul is Rested. 323.4 RL55M

Ringgold, Faith, If a Bus Could Talk. B PARKROS

Rollins, Judith, All is Never Said. 323.092 R754A

Rowan, Carl Thomas, Dream Makers, Dream Breakers. 323.1196073 T767D

Salmond, John A., My Mind Set on Freedom. 973.0496073 S172M

Sitkoff, Harvard, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. 323.4 S623S1993

Southern Poverty Law Center, Free at Last. 305.896073 F853

Walter, Mildred Pitts, Mississippi Challenge. 305.896W

Williams, Juan, Eyes on the Prize. 323.4 W724E

Williams, Juan, Thurgood Marshall. 347.732634 M368Yw

Webb, Sheyann, Selma, Lord, Selma. 323.1196073 W368S

Wexler, Sanford, An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement. 323.1196073 W545c1999
 
 



CIVIL RIGHTS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books on Order

The Day Martin Luther King Was Shot

My Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Walking to the Bus Rider Blues

Walking with the Wind
 


CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH

Background Information:
Use the following two reference resources to find background information on your Civil Rights Issue.
 
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
CQ Researcher

Books:
Use Illinet Online to find more books on Civil Rights Issues held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.  Keyword searching offers a good way to start looking for books in Illinet Online. Use the main words describing your topic.  A more precise way of searching is to use controlled vocabulary. Illinet Online's controlled vocabulary is known as Library of Congress Subject Headings (or LC subject headings). Unlike keywords, you can't simply make these up: you have to find out what the exact terms are and enter them in Illinet as a subject search.

Articles in Journals:
The following is a selected list of databases where you will find articles on Civil Rights issues indexed within journals.  Many of the articles you find will be available full text online, others you will have to find in the library or order through interlibrary loan.  Full description of each database can be found on the Articles & Databases page.
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ABI-Inform
Academic Search Elite
Academic Universe
Education Abstracts
PAIS International
Periodical Abstracts

Articles in Newspapers:
The following is a selected list of databases where you will find articles on Civil Rights issues indexed in newspapers.  Many of the articles will be full text online, others you will have to print you citation and look for them in a full text newspaper database.
 

New York Times
Wall St. Journal
News Illinois

CIVIL RIGHTS INTERNET SITES

LCCR ~ Civil Rights Organization Civil Rights Photography by Charles Moore Timeline . American Civil Rights Movement
Facing History Facing Ourselves Academy of Achievement Freedom and Rights Pages
Freedom Forum Harvard ~ Civil Rights Project  Civil Rights Timeline
TSUM:R. Parks Library & Museum Civil Rights Tribune National Civil Rights Museum
Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography Yale ~New Haven Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation RosaParks among 11 to get Presidential Medal of Freedom
The King Center U.S. Ed. Office for Civil Rights  NAACP LINKS

This Page was created 8/9/00
Updated 9/22/00
By Donna Goodwyn &  Susan Swords Steffen