The Long Civil Rights Movement
A Working Bibliography
To recommend an addition to this working bibliography, contact Mark Simpson-Vos,
Editor, at the University of North Carolina Press. Email: simpsonv@email.unc.edu.
Civil Rights Movement – Roots and “Early Phase”
Agnew, Jean-Christophe and Roy Rosenzweig, eds. A Companion to Post-1945 America.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New
York: H.Holt, 2004.
Dunbar, Anthony P. Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929- 1959.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
Ellis, Mark. Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government
during World War I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Fairclough, Adam. Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Gerstle, Gary. "The Protean Character of American Liberalism." The American Historical
Review 99, no. 4 (Oct., 1994): 1043-1073.
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign
Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in
Twentieth-Century America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.
Korstad, Robert Rodgers. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for
Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2003.
Korstad, Robert and Nelson Lichtenstein. "Opportunities found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and
the Early Civil Rights Movement." The Journal of American History 75, no. 3 (Dec., 1988):
786-811.
Martin, Robert Francis. Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 190477. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.
Savage, Barbara Dianne. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 19381948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press,
2002.
Civil Rights Movement – “Classic Period”
Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1998.
———. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1989.
Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
———. "Review: King Scholarship and Iconoclastic Myths." Reviews in American History 16,
no. 1 (Mar., 1988): 130-136.
Chafe, William Henry. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black
Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Chappell, David L. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1994.
Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights
Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Fairclough, Adam. "The Preachers and the People: The Origins and Early Years of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1959." The Journal of Southern History 52, no. 3
(Aug., 1986): 403-440.
Lawson, Steven F. "Freedom then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights
Movement." The American Historical Review 96, no. 2 (Apr., 1991): 456-471.
Lawson, Steven F. and Charles M. Payne. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1999.
Ling, Peter J. and Sharon Monteith, eds. Gender in the Civil Rights Movement. New York:
Garland Pub., 1999.
Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America,
1945-1990. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
Meier, August and Elliott M. Rudwick. CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 19421968. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for
Change. New York: Free Press, 1984.
Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi
Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Plummer, Brenda Gayle, ed. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs,
1945-1988. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Pryor, Mark. Faith, Grace and Heresy: The Biography of Rev. Charles M. Jones. San Jose:
Writer's Showcase, 2002.
Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Sitkoff, Harvard and Eric Foner. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. New York: Hill
and Wang, 1993.
Smith, Hal. "“The Thought of being Free has Entered Many Minds”: The Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and the Process of Community Education, 1960-1966." Ed.D
diss., Harvard University, 2000.
Theoharis, Jeanne and Komozi Woodard, eds. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles
Outside the South, 1940-1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Torres, Sasha. Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 2003.
Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement. New York:
Norton, 1990.
Civil Rights Movement – Later Phases and Re-periodization
Eagles, Charles W. "Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era." The Journal of Southern
History 66, no. 4 (Nov., 2000): 815-848.
Estes, Steve. I AM a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Gosse, Van. Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
———. "A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left." In A
Companion to Post-1945 America, edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy
Rosenzweig. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Gosse, Van and Richard R. Moser, eds. The World the Sixties made: Politics and Culture in
Recent America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past."
Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005): 1233-1263.
Honey, Michael K. "The Labor and Civil Rights Movements at the Crossroads: Martin Luther
King, Black Sanitation Workers, and the Memphis Sanitation Stirke." West Tennessee
Historical Society Papers (2004): 18-34.
McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity.
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Stein, Judith. Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy and the Decline of
Liberalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Tyson, Timothy B. Blood done Sign My Name: A True Story. New York: Crown Publishers,
2004.
———. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1999.
———. "Robert F. Williams, "Black Power," and the Roots of the African American Freedom
Struggle." The Journal of American History 85, no. 2 (Sep., 1998): 540-570.
Westheider, James E. Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War. New
York: New York University Press, 1997.
Whalen, Jack and Richard Flacks. Beyond the Barricades: The Sixties Generation Grows Up.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Looking Beyond the Movement
Brinkley, Alan. "The Problem of American Conservatism." The American Historical Review 99,
no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 409-429.
———. "Response to the Comments of Leo Ribuffo and Susan Yohn." The American Historical
Review 99, no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 450-452.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and
the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
D'Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Free Press,
2003.
Ellis, Richard. The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America. Lawrence, Kan.:
University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Findlay, James F. Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the
Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Friedland, Michael B. Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and
Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Harvey, Paul. Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the
Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2005.
Marsh, Charles. God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 2008.
Newman, Mark. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Ribuffo, Leo P. "Why is there so Much Conservatism in the United States and Why do so Few
Historians Know Anything about it." The American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (Apr.,
1994): 438-449.
Yohn, Susan M. "Will the Real Conservative Please Stand Up? Or, the Pitfalls Involved in
Examining Ideological Sympathies: A Comment on Alan Brinkley's "Problem of American
Conservatism"." The American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 430-437.
Religion and Social Movements
Alpert, Rebecca T., ed. Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2000.
Antonides, Harry. Stones for Bread: The Social Gospel and its Contemporary Legacy. Jordan
Station, Ont., Canada: Paideia Press, 1985.
Brunson, Drexel Timothy. “The Quest for Social Justice: A Study of Walter Rauschenbusch and
His Influence on Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr.” Ph.D diss., Florida State
University, 1982.
Chappell, David L. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Cobb, John B. Liberal Christianity at the Crossroads. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973.
Coleman, Richard J. Issues of Theological Conflict: Evangelicals and Liberals. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1980.
Cone, James H. Black Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997.
Cox, Harvey Gallagher. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the
Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co., 1995.
Cuff, Elliott. "Rediscovering the Power of the Redemptive Preaching done in the Civil Rights
Movement." D. Min. diss., United Theological Seminary, 1997.
D'Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Free Press,
2003.
Dorrien, Gary J. The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity,
1900-1950. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
———. Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1995.
Eagles, Charles W. Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Evans, Sara M., ed. Journeys that Opened Up the World: Women, Student Christian
Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
Press, 2003.
Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Findlay, James F. Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the
Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Friedland, Michael B. Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and
Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. New York: Quill, 1999.
Gilbert, Richard S. The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice. Boston:
Skinner House Books, 2000.
Grant, Curtis Robert. "The Social Gospel and Race." Ed. D. diss., Stanford University, 1968.
Harvey, Paul. Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the
Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2005.
Harvey, Paul and Philip Goff, eds. The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America
since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Hawkins, Merrill M. Will Campbell: Radical Prophet of the South. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University
Press, 1997.
Hopkins, Dwight N., ed. Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black
Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999.
Hulsether, Mark. Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
Jones, Peter. Pagans in the Pews. Ventura, Calif.: Regal Books, 2001.
Lichterman, Paul. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing
Commitment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Luker, Ralph. The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Marsh, Charles. God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 2008.
———. The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights
Movement to Today. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the TwentiethCentury Urban North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Morris, Aldon D. and Carol McClurg Mueller, eds. Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992.
Nash, Ronald H. Why the Left is Not Right: The Religious Left -- Who They Are and What They
Believe. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub. House, 1996.
Newman, Mark. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Raschke, Carl A. The Bursting of New Wineskins: Reflections on Religion and Culture at the
End of Affluence. Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1978.
Reeves, Thomas C. The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity. New York: Free
Press, 1996.
Tarrow, Sidney G. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Wuthnow, Robert. The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1989.
Zald, Mayer N. and John D. McCarthy, eds. Social Movements in an Organizational Society:
Collected Essays. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987.
The New Right (and friends)
Brinkley, Alan. "The Problem of American Conservatism." The American Historical Review 99,
no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 409-429.
———. "Response to the Comments of Leo Ribuffo and Susan Yohn." The American Historical
Review 99, no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 450-452.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and
the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Diamond, Sara. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United
States. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.
Duggan, Lisa. The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on
Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
Ellis, Richard. The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America. Lawrence, Kan.:
University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Gerson, Mark. The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars. Lanham,
MD: Madison Books, 1996.
Martin, William C. With God on our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America. New York:
Broadway Books, 1996.
Murray, Charles A. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980. New York: Basic Books,
1994.
Ribuffo, Leo P. "Why is there so Much Conservatism in the United States and Why do so Few
Historians Know Anything about it." The American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (Apr.,
1994): 438-449.
Sanjek, Roger. The Future of Us all: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City. Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Yohn, Susan M. "Will the Real Conservative Please Stand Up? Or, the Pitfalls Involved in
Examining Ideological Sympathies: A Comment on Alan Brinkley's "Problem of American
Conservatism"." The American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (Apr., 1994): 430-437.
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———. Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. Chapel Hill,
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