BIBLIOGRAPHY

The 1920s
Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
1960s: Culture and Society
The Civil Rights Movement
Politics, 1960-1980
Politics since 1980
Society and Culture since 1980
Historiographical Issues
Background Reading
Internet Resources

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Overviews
Robert Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty? (1998)
Steven Lawson, and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1991)
Manning Marable Race, Reform and Rebellion: the second Reconstruction in black America 1945-1990 (2nd ed. 1991)
Weisbrot, Freedom Bound (1990)
Armstead Robinson and Pat Sullivan, New Directions in Civil Rights Studies (1991)
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (1988)
Local Studies
William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980)
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994)
Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (1987)
James R. Ralph, Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement (1993)
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996)
Aspects
Vicki Crawford et al, Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers (1990)
Brian Ward, Just my soul Responding (1998) [on the role of music]
Carol Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (2001)
Richard King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992)