Resources

Books

Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams, Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song (New York: Routledge, 2002).

Clarice T. Campbell and Oscar Allan Rogers, Mississippi, the View from Tougaloo (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1979).

John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

Steve Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).

Charles Marsh God's Long Summer: Stories of faith and Civil Rights (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (New York: Dial Press: 1968).

Richard Wright, Uncle Tom's Children (New York: Harper and Row, 1965, 1938).

Web Sites

Civil Rights in Mississippi, Digital Archive, University of Southern Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/index.html

The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 South Kingston High School and Brown University Scholarly Technology Group http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Park Service; Federal Highway Administration http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982; Data and Program Library Service, Michael T. Aiken, N. J. Demereth III, Gerald Marwell, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin Madison http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Idealism/index.html

Afro American Almanac http://toptags.com/aama/

African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Freedom Library of Congress, American Memory Project http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html