Civil Rights
There are more civil rights books on the shelves and many more eBooks related to civil rights are available through the Library’s databases.
African American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansasby Johnny E. Williams. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Call no: E185.93.A8 W55 2003
American oracle the Civil War in the civil rights era by David W. Blight. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
America’s unpatriotic acts: the Federal Government’s violation of constitutional and civil rights. by Brasch, Walter M. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Call no: JC599.U5 B67 2005
Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events compiled by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, c2003. Call #: REF E185 .B574 2003
Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights movement abridged edition of From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality by Michael J. Klarman. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 the passage of the law that ended racial segregation edited by Robert D. Loevy ; with contributions by Hubert H. Humphrey, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., and John G. Stewart. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Civil rights and the idea of freedom by Richard H. King. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Civil rights chronicle letters from the South by Clarice T. Campbell. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1997.
Civil rights in wartime the post-9/11 Sikh experience by Dawinder S. Sidhu. Farnham, Surrey [UK] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Civil rights movement by Wendy Conklin. Huntington Beach, CA : Teacher Created Materials, c2008.
Civil war on Race Street the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland by Peter B. Levy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2003.
Defining civil and political rights the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee by Alex Conte. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, c2009.
Disabled rights: American disability policy and the fight for equality by Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. Call no: HV1553 .S95 2003
Freedom walk: Mississippi or bust by Mary Stanton. Jackson [Miss.]: University Press of Mississippi, c2003. Call #: E185.61 .S785 2003
From Civil War to civil rights–Alabama, 1860-1960 an anthology from the Alabama review compiled by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2011.
From southern wrongs to civil rights the memoir of a white civil rights activist by Sara Mitchell Parsons. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2000.
Gay and lesbian issues: a reference handbook by Chuck Stewart. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2003. Call #: HQ76.25 .S748 2003
Grandfather of Black studies : W.E.B. Du Bois by Nagueyalti Warren. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011. Call #: E185.97.D73 W37 2011
The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights: from emancipation to the twenty-first century by Charles D. Lowery. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Call no: E185.61 .E54 2003
I have a dream: writings and speeches that changed the world by Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992. Call no: E185.97.K5 A25 1992
The know your Bill of Rights book by Sean Patrick.United States : Oculus Publishers, [2013] Call #: KF4749.P38 2013
Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela.New York : R.B. Flash Point, 2009. Call #: DT1949.M35 A3 2009
Justice at war civil liberties and civil rights during times of crisis by Richard Delgado. New York : New York University Press, c2003.
MLK: the Martin Luther King, Jr. tapes : featuring speeches given by Martin Luther King, Jr. [sound recording]. Rolling Bay, WA: Jerden Records, 1993. Call no: E185.97 .K5 1993
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness Michelle Alexander. New York : New Press, c2012. Call #: HV9950.A437 2012
The other movement: Indian rights and civil rights in the deep South by Denise E. Bates. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
The people’s lawyer the Center for Constitutional Rights and the fight for social justice, from civil rights to Guantánamo by Albert Ruben. New York : Monthly Review Press, c2011.
Redefining the color line: Black activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 by John A. Kirk. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.Call no: F419.L7 K57 2002
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon. New York: Doubleday, c2008. Call #: E185.2 .B545 2008
The struggle against slavery : a history in documents by David Waldstreicher. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001. Call #: E447 .W35 2001
W.E.B. DuBois : biography of a race, 1868-1919 by David L. Lewis. New York : H. Holt, 1993. Call #: E185.97.D73 L48 1993
Yours for justice, Ida B. Wells : the daring life of crusading journalist by Philip Dray. Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, c2008. Call #: E185.97.W55 D73 2008