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 Bibliography of School Desegregation and Civil Rights Readings
Bates, Daisy, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, A Memoir (David McKay, 1964).

Beals, Melba Patillo, Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Central High (Pocket Books, 1994).

Bell, Derrick A., Shades of Brown: New Perspectives on School Desegregation (Teachers College Press, 1980).

Brown, Robert R. (Robert Raymond), Bigger Than Little Rock (Greenwich, Conn., 1958).

Blaustein, Albert P. and Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Desegregation and the Law: The Meaning and Effect of the School Desegregation Cases (Rutgers University Press, 1957).

Bullock, Henry Allen, A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present (Harvard University Press, 1967).

Carbado, Devon W. & Donald Weise, Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (Cleiss Press, 2003).

Carmichael, Stokely & Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (Vintage Books, 1967).

Chesler, Mark A., Joseph Sanders, and Debra S. Kalmuss, Social Science in Court: Mobilizing Experts in the School Desegregation Cases (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

Clinton, Catherine, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (Boston Little, Brown 2004).

Coles, Robert, Children of Crisis (Delta Books, 1967).

Collier-Thomas & Franklin, V.P., My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 (Henry Holt, 1999).

Cushman, Robert F., Leading Constitutional Decisions (Prentice Hall, 1981).

Davis, Angela Y., Women, Race and Class (Vintage Book, 2000).

D’Emilio, John, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin/ John Emilio (Free Press, 2003).

DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk (Blue Heron, 1953).

DuBois, W.E.B., The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Press March, 1999).

Foster, Michele, Black Teachers on Teaching (The New Press, 1997).

Franklin, V.P., Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the making of the African-American intellectual tradition (Oxford Press, 1996).

Fribourg, Marjorie G., The Supreme Court in American History (Macrae Smith Company, 1984).

Friedman, Leon, ed., Argument: The Complete Oral Argument before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1952-1955 (Chelsea House Publishers, 1969).

Gayles, Gloria Wade, ed., My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality (Beacon Press, 1995).

Greenberg, Jack, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Right Revolution (Basic Books, 1994).

Gwaltney, John Langston, Drylongso: A Self-Potrait of Black America (Vintage Book, 1981).

Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun (Random House, 1959).

Hornsby, Benjamin F., Jr., Stepping into the Supreme Court (Clarendon County, South Carolina Dept. of Archives & History, c.1992).

Irons, Peter, Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (Viking, 2002).

Jones, Leon, From Brown to Boston: Desegregation in Education, 1954-1974 (2 volumes, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979).

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Harper & Row, 1967).

Kluger, Richard, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and the Struggle for Equality (Knopf, 1976).

Kozol, Jonathan, Death at an Early Age: the Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (Bantam Books, 1968).

Kozol, Jonathan, Free Schools (Houghton Mifflin, 1972).

Lagemeann, Ellen Condliffe, and Lamar P. Miller, Brown v. Board of Education: The Challenge for Today’s Schools (Teacher’s College Press, 1996).

Lanker, Brian, I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America / photographs and interviews (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989).

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sarah, Respect: an exploration (Perseus Books, 2000).

Lincoln, C. Eric & Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience (Duke Press, 1980).

Lumpkin, Katherine DuPre, The Emancipation of Angelica Grimke (Oxford University, 1974).

Martin, Waldo E., Jr., Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins, 1998).

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

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

Michael, W.E., 1904 – The Age of Error (Vantage Press, 1957).

Neiman, Donald G., ed., African Americans and Education in the South, 1865-1900 (Garland Publishing, 1994).

Olson, Lynne, Freedom’s Daughter: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (Scribner, 2001).

Orfield, Gary and Susan E. Eaton, and the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, Dismantling Desegregation (The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education) (The New Press, 1996).

Painter, Nell Irvin, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol (W.W. Norton, 1996).

Parks, Rosa, Quiet Strength: The Faith, The Hope and The Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation / reflections by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed (Zondervan Pub. House, 1994).

Patterson, James T., Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Raffel, Jeffrey, A Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation (Greenwood Press, 1998).

Sarat, Austin, ed., Race, Law and Culture (Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education) (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Smith, Bob, They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951-1964 (University of North Carolina Press, 1965).

Terrell, Mary Church, A Colored Woman in a White World (Washington, D.C. National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1968).

Tobin, Jacqueline L. & Raymond G. Dobard, Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and The Underground Railroad (Anchor Books, 2000).

Tushnet, Mark V., Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Tushnet, Mark V., The NAACP Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (University of North Carolina Press, 1987).

Webb, Sheyann & Rachel West Nelar, Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days (University of Alabama Press, 1997).

West, Cornel, The Cornel West Reader (Basic Civitas, 1999).

Wilkerson, J. Harvie III, From Brown to Bakke. The Supreme Court and School Integration: 1954-1978 (Oxford University Press, 1979).

Williams, Juan, Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books, 1987).

Wilson, Paul, A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education (University Press, 1995).

Wolters, Raymond, The Burden of Brown (Thirty Years of School Desegregation) (University of Tennessee Press, 1984).


Books for Young People ~ Nonfiction:

Allen, Zita, Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Watts, 1996).

Bridges, Ruby, Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges (Scholastic, 1999).

Bullard, Sara, Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle (Oxford, 1993).

Coles, Robert, Story of Ruby Bridges (Scholastic, 1995).

Dudley, Mark E., Brown v. Board of Education: School Desegregation (Twenty-First Century Books, 1994).

Duncan, Alice Faye, The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People (BridgeWater, 1995).

Dunn, John M., The Civil Rights Movement (Gale Group, 1997).

Elish, Dan, James Meredith and School Desegregation (Millbrook, 1994).

Engelbert, Phillips, American Civil Rights: Primary Sources (UXL, 1999).

Finlayson, Reggie, We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement (Lerner, 2003).

Fireside, Harvey, Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate But Equal? (Enslow, 1997).

Fireside, Harvey and Sarah Betsy Fuller, Brown v. Board of Education: Equal Schooling for All (Enslow Publishers, 1994).

Fremon, David K., The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History (Enslow, 2000).

Good, Diane L., Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone (Children’s Press, 2004).

Halberstam, David, The Children (Random House, 1998).

Haskins, Jim, Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle (Scholastic Press, 1998).

Herda, D.J., Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion (Enslow Publishers, 1995).

King, Casey, Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen (Knopf, 1997).

Levine, Ellen, Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories (Putnam, 1993).

Lucas, Eileen, Civil Rights: The Long Struggle (Enslow, 1996).

Lucas, Eileen, Cracking the Wall: The Struggle of the Little Rock Nine (Carolrhoda, 1997).

Lusane, Clarence, Struggle for Equal Education (Watts, 1992).

McKissack, Patricia, The Civil Rights Movement in America: From 1865 to the Present (2d Edition) (Children’s Press, 1991).

Miller, Jake, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Challenging School Segregation in the Supreme Court (PowerKids Press, 2004).

Parks, Rosa, Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth (Lee & Low, 1996).

Rasmussen, R. Kent, Farewell to Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of Segregation in America (Facts on File, 1997).

Ringgold, Faith, If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks (Simon & Schuster, 1999).

Rochelle, Belinda, Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights (Lodestar, 1993).

Tackach, James, Brown v. Board of Education (Lucent Books, 1998).

Taylor, Kimberly Hayes, Black Civil Rights Champions (Oliver Press, 1995).

Thomas, Joyce Carol, Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: The Brown v. Board of Education Decision (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2003).

Tillage, Leon, Leon’s Story (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997).

Tushnet, Mark V., Brown v. Board of Education: The Battle for Integration (Franklin Watts, 1995).

Walter, Mildred Pitts, Mississippi Challenge (Bradbury Press, 1992).

Weber, Michael, Causes and Consequences of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998).

Welch, Catherine A., Children of the Civil Rights Era (Carolrhoda, 2001).

Wormser, Richard, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The African American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1965-1964 (Watts, 1999).


Books for Young People ~ Fiction:

Bradby, Marie, Momma, Where Are You From? (Orchard Books, 2000).

Curtis, Christopher Paul, Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 (Delacorte, 1995).

Davis, Ossie, Just Like Martin (Simon & Schuster, 1992).

Evans, Freddi Williams, A Bus of Our Own (Whitman, 2001).

Herlihy, Dirlie, Ludie’s Song (Dial, 1988).

Littlesugar, Amy, Freedom School, Yes! (Philomel, 2001).

Lorbiecki, Marybeth, Sister Anne’s Hands (Dial, 1998).

Martin, Ann M., Belle Teal (Scholastic, 2001).

McKissack, Patricia C., Goin’ Someplace Special (Atheneum, 2001).

Miller, William, Bus Ride (Lee & Low, 1998).

Mitchell, Margaret King, Grandaddy’s Gift (BridgeWater, 1997).

Moore, Yvette, Freedom Songs (Orchard, 1991).

Murphy, Rita, Black Angels (Delacorte, 2001).

Myers, Walter Dean, Glory Field (Scholastic, 1994).

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux, Mayfield Crossing (Putnam, 1993).

Shange, Ntozake, Betsey Brown: A Novel (St. Martin’s Press, 1985).

Taylor, Mildred D., Gold Cadillac (Dial Books, 1987).

Walter, Mildred Pitts, Girl on the Outside (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1982).

Wilkinson, Brenda Scott, Not Separate, Not Equal (Harper and Row, 1987).


Photographic Resources:

Associated Press, World Wide Photos, New York, NY.

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, P.O. Box 4862, Topeka, KS 66603.

Douglas, Joe, Photograph Collection, The Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS.

LIFE Picture Sales, Division of Time-Life Inc., Magazine Company, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Ross, Merrill, Photograph Collection, The Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Topeka, New York: Sanborn-Perris Map Company, 1896, 1913, and 1964.

South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina Photograph Collection.

State Historic Preservation Office of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kansas, and Virginia.

Still Picture Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.

“Topeka,” Aerial Photographs, Salt Lake City: Aerial Photography Field Office, 1942, 1954, 19655, 1978, and 1986.

Video Resources

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality: Brown v. Education, Video and Teacher’s Guide.

University of Virginia, The Road to Brown: The Untold Story of “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow” (California Newsreel, 1990).

Fanning, David, Marlene Booth, Producer and Director, They Had a Dream: Brown v. Board of Education 25 Years Later, Boston: WTBS Public Broadcasting System, 1980.

Elbow, Mary, Reporter, with Photo-Journalist Woody Crable, Brown v. Board of Education, Three-part Anniversary Series, May 1994, KSNT, Channel 27 Television, Topeka, Kansas.

Elwood, William, et al., Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings, 1954-1956, Blackside, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1987, Video Cassettes.

Elwood, William, et al., Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back, 1957-1962, Blackside, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1987, Video Cassettes.

Elwood, William, et al., Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985, Blackside, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1989, Video Cassettes.

Espinosa, Paul The Lemon Grove Incident (Espinosa Productions, 1985).

Lee, Spike, Four Little Girls (HBO Studio 1999) (motion picture).

Washington School, Film of school and students, circa late 1940s or early 1950s, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.


Journal and Newspaper Articles

The Journal of Negro Education, Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education, Summer 1954.

The Journal of Negro Education, The Courts and Racial Integration in Education, Summer 1955.

The Journal of Negro Education, Desegregation and the Negro College, Summer 1958.

The Journal of Negro Education, Education and Civil Rights in 1965, Summer 1965.

The Journal of Negro Education, Desegregation in the 1970s: A Candid Discussion, Winter 1978.

The Journal of Negro Education, Persistent and Emergent Legal Issues in Education: 1983 Yearbook, Summer 1983.

The Journal of Negro Education, Brown v. Board of Education at 40: A Commemorative Issue Dedicated to Thurgood Marshall, Summer 1994.

The Journal of Negro Education, The Role of Social Science in School Desegregation Efforts: The St. Louis Vol. 66, No. 3, Summer 1997.

Popham, John N., Segregation: South Looks Ahead: States Plan to Move Slowly in Changing School Set-up. Special to the New York Times, New York Times, May 23, 1954 E5.

Bracker, Milton, School Desegregation: A City’s Case History: Baltimore Incidents are Traced to Ignorance on Part of Parents, Special to the New York Times, New York Times, October 10, 1954, E4.

Samuels, Getrude, School Desegregation: A Case History, New York Times, May 8, 1955, p. 9.

[Most recent NYT Series]


Web Sites

Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
http://brownvboard.org/

Michigan.gov: The Official State of Michigan Web Site (Desegregation of Detroit public schools)
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/o,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52956--,00.html

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=87 . . .

The Robert Russa Moton Museum (Prince Edward County, Virginia citizens’ roles in integration efforts)
http://www.moton.org/

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