Fall 2006
Dr. Emilye Crosby
Library Research Skills for HIST 221 Civil Rights Movement
The following list of library materials on the Civil Rights Movement includes books, videos, and microfilm that are (or that contain) primary sources. Those listed "RESERVE" can be found in the special Civil Rights Movement Reserve Collection, on book carts in the Lower Floor Lounge of Milne Library. Those listed "NOT ON RESERVE" are in their usual location on the library shelves at the call number indicated.(Click here to arrange this list by title.)

A
Abernathy, Ralph. And the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography.
RESERVE E185.97.A13 A3 1989

Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A documentary History of the Negro people in the United States. Volumes 2, 3, 5, 6, 7.
RESERVE E 185 A58 1965

Ashmore, Harry S. Civil rights and wrongs : a memoir of race and politics 1944-1994.
RESERVE E185.615 .A825 1994

B
Beals, Melba Patillo. Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High.
RESERVE LC214.23.L56 B43 1994

Belfrage, Sally. Freedom summer.
RESERVE E185.93.M6 B4

Bracey, John H., Jr, ed. Black nationalism in America.
RESERVE E185 B8

Broderick, Francis L. and August Meier, eds. Negro protest thought in the twentieth century.
RESERVE E 185 B87

Burns, Stewart, ed. Daybreak of freedom: the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
RESERVE F 334 M79 N39 1997

C
Campbell, Will D.Brother to a dragonfly.
RESERVE BX6495.C28 A33

Campbell, Will D.Forty acres and a goat : a memoir.
RESERVE E185.98.C36 A3 1986

Caplan, Marvin. Farther along : a civil rights memoir.
RESERVE E185.98.C37 A3 1999

Carawan, Guy and Candie Carawan. Sing for freedom: the story of the civil rights movement through its songs.
RESERVES M 1977 C47 S56 1990

Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture). Ready for Revolution: the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael. RESERVE E 185.97 C27 A3

Chafe, William H., ed. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the segregated South.
RESERVE E 185.61 .R4 2001

Civil rights during the Johnson administration: a collection from the holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Histories.
micro film E 185.615 .C583 1984 (NOT ON RESERVE)

Civil Rights Series, CBS News Network. six videotapes:
*Black power-- white backlash [videorecording] RESERVE vrc E185.615 .B5467 2000
*The Color line on campus [videorecording] RESERVE vrc LC2781 .C584 2000
*Clinton and the law [videorecording] RESERVE vrc LC214.23.C62 C62 2000
*After ten years [videorecording] : the court and the schools RESERVE vrc LC214.2 .A38 2000
*Segregation-- Northern style [videorecording] RESERVE vrc HD7288.76.U52 N5 2000
*Mississippi and the 15th Amendment [videorecording]RESERVE vrc E185.93.M6 M57 2000

Civil Rights USA: public schools, southern states. Uncataloged government document.

Clark, Septima Poinsette. Ready from within : Septima Clark and the civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.615 .C597 1990

Cluster, Dick, ed. They should have served that cup of coffee.
RESERVE HN 90.R3 T47

D
Decade of School Segregation.
Uncataloged government document.

Dees, Morris. A season for justice : the life and times of civil rights lawyer Morris Dees.
RESERVE KF 373.D43 A3 1991

Durr, Virginia Foster. Outside the magic circle : the autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr.
RESERVE CT 275.D8848 A34 1985

Durr, Virginia Foster. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. RESERVE CT 275 .D8848 A4

E
Equal Opportunity in Suburbia.
Uncatologed government document.

Evers-Williams, Myrlie. For us, the living.
RESERVE F349.J13 E94 1996

Eyes on the Prize : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965. Series of six videorecordings.
*Awakenings (1954-56) RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.1
*Fighting back (1957-62) RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.2
*Ain't scared of your jails (1960-61) RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.3
*No easy walk (1962-66) RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.4
*Mississippi: is this America? (1962-64) RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.5
*Bridge to freedom (1965). RESERVE E185.615 .E945 1992 v.6

F
Farmer, James. Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of the civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.97.F37 A35 1985

FBI file, MIBURN (Mississippi Burning): the investigation of the murders of Michael Henry Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Earl Chaney, June 21, 1964.
micro film E 185.93.M6 F24 1990 1984 (NOT ON RESERVE)

FBI file on W.E.B. Du Bois.
micro film E 185.97.D73 F24 1996 1984 (NOT ON RESERVE)

FBI file, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
micro film E 185.61 .F355 1991 1984 (NOT ON RESERVE)

Federal enforcement of school desegregation. Uncataloged government document.

Foner, Philip S., ed.Voice of Black America; major speeches by Negroes in the United States, 1797-1971.
RESERVE E 185 F592

Foner, Philip S., ed. Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840-1865. 2 Volumes.
RESERVE E 184.5 P75

Foner, Philip S., ed. Proceedings of the Black National and State Conventions, 1865-1900.
RESERVE E 184.5 P73 1986

Forman, James. The making of Black Revolutionaries.
RESERVE E185.97.F715 A3 1997

Friedman, Leon. The civil rights reader.
RESERVE E185.61 .F857

G
Garrow, David. Atlanta, Georgia: 1960-1961: sit-ins and student activism.
RESERVE E 185.61 M36 1989

Garrow, David J., ed. Walking city: the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956.
RESERVE E 185.61 M36 1989 v. 7

Grant, Joanne, ed.Black protest: history, documents, and analyses, 1619 to the present.
RESERVE E185 .G75

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, ed. A circle of trust : remembering SNCC.
RESERVE E185.61 .C58 1998

H
Hampton, Henry. Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s.
RESERVE E185.61 .H224 1990

Henry, Aaron. Aaron Henry: the fire ever burning.
RESERVE F 350 N4 H46 2000

Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. From the Mississippi Delta: a memoir.
RESERVE F 349 G82 H65 1997

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. In my place.
RESERVE PN 4874 H83 A3 1992

K
King, Coretta Scott. My life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
RESERVE E185.97.K5 K5 1993

King, Martin Luther, Jr. The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
RESERVE E185.97.K5 A2 1992 , 3 vols.

King, Mary. Freedom song : a personal story of the 1960s civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.98.K56 A3 1987

King, R. T. (Robert Thomas). Fighting back : a life in the struggle for civil rights / from oral history interviews with James B. McMillan.
RESERVE F849.L35 K56 1997

L
Lamont, Corliss. Yes to life : memoirs of Corliss Lamont.
RESERVE CT275.L352 A3 1981

Lerner, GerdaBlack Women in White America.
RESERVE E 185.86 L4

Levy, Peter B., ed. Let freedom ring: a documentary history of the modern civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.61 .D64 1992b

Lewis, John. Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement.
RESERVE E840.8.L43 A3 1998

Lynd, Staughton. Nonviolence in America: a documentary history.
RESERVE HM 278 .L9 (2)

Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.615 .L96 1992

M
Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings, eds. Let nobody turn us around: voices of resistance, reform, and renewal: an African American anthology.
RESERVE E 184.6 L48 2000

Mars, Florence. Witness in Philadelphia.
RESERVE F349.P47 M37

Martinez, Elizabeth Sutherland, ed. Letters from Mississippi.
RESERVE E185.61 .S95

Meacham, Jon, ed. Voices in our blood : America's best on the civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.61 .V744 2001

Meier,August, John Bracey, Jr., and Elliott Rudwick, eds. Black protest in the sixties.
RESERVE E185.615 .B5472 1991

Minds stayed on freedom : the civil rights struggle in the rural South : an oral history. Compiled by the Youth of the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center.
RESERVE F347.H6 M56 1991

Moody, Anne. Coming of age in Mississippi.
RESERVE E185.97.M65 A3

Murray, Pauli. Song in a weary throat.
RESERVE E 185.97 M95 A3 1986

N
The Negro handbook.
Compiled by the editors of Ebony.
RESERVE E 185 E2

O
Oppenheimer, Martin. The sit-in movement.
RESERVES E 185.61 .M36 1989 v.16

Ovington, Mary White. Black and white sat down together : the reminiscences of an NAACP founder.
RESERVE E185.97.O95 A3 1995

R
Rollins, Judith. All is never said : the narrative of Odette Harper Hines.
RESERVE E185.97.H58 R65 1995

S
School desegregation: the courts and suburban migration
. Uncataloged government document.

Seeger, Pete and Robert S. Reiser. Everybody says freedom.
RESERVE ML 3550 S43 1989

Sellers, Cleveland. The river of no return : the autobiography of a Black militant and the life and death of SNCC.
RESERVE E 185.97.S44 A3 1990

Southern School Desegregation. Uncataloged government document.

Statement on metropolitan school desegregation. Uncataloged government document.

Stoper, Emily. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee : the growth of radicalism in a civil rights movement.
RESERVE E 185.61 .M36 1989 v.17

The Student voice 1960-1965 : periodical of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
RESERVE E 185.61 .S916 1990

Survey of school desegregation in the southern and border states. Uncataloged government document.

T
Title V1 and school desegregation
. Uncataloged government document.

U
United States Commission on Civil Rights. Police and the Blacks; U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearings.
RESERVE KF 4756.A2 U5

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Racial Isolation in the Public Schools.
KF 4755 A83 and 2 copies uncataloged government documents

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings held in Jackson, Miss., February 16-20, 1965.
RESERVE Gov Doc CR 1.8:H 35/965/v.1 and v. 2.

V
Veterans of Hope Project
. Series of five videorecorded interviews and pamphlets:
*Ruby Sales: Episcopalian seminarian and SNCC organizer. RESERVE vrc E 185.97.S25 R83 2000
*Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons : Islamic scholar and SNCC organizer. RESERVE vrc E 185.97.S56 G84 2000
*Bernice Johnson Reagon: SNCC freedom singer and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock. RESERVE vrc E185.97.R43 B47
*James Lawson: teacher and practitioner of nonviolence. RESERVE vrc E185.97.L39 J36 2000
*Andrew Young : former executive director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and U.S. ambassador to the United States. RESERVE vrc E840.8.Y64 A53 2000

W
Watters, Pat. Encounter with the future.
RESERVE E185.5 .W2

Webb, Sheyann and Rachel West Nelson. Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood memories of the civil rights days.
RESERVE F 334 S4 W4

West, Thomas R. and James W. Mooney, eds. To redeem a nation: a history and anthology of the civil rights movement.
RESERVE E 184.6 T 6 1993

Westin, Alan F. Freedom now: the civil rights struggle in America. RESERVE E 185.61 W54

Wexler, Sanford. An eyewitness history of the civil rights movement.
RESERVE E185.61 .W548 1999

White, Marjorie L., ed. Walk to freedom: the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964.
RESERVE F 334.B69 N475 1998

Wigginton, Eliot, ed. Refuse to stand silently by : an oral history of grass roots social activism in America, 1921-1964.
RESERVE HN 57 .R38 1991

Wilson, Sondra Kathryn, ed. The Crisis Reader: stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine.

Sue Ann Brainard, Associate Librarian, Phone: (585) 245-5062 brainard@geneseo.edu
Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454, (585) 245-5594