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Civil Rights Movement and Black Power

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Burk, Robert Fredrick. The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Carson, Clayborn. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. (1981).

Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom. (1980)

Dittmer, John. Local People: The struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. (1994)

Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.. (1987)

Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (1986)

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice. (1975)

Lawson, Steven F. Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941. (Second edition, 1997)

Lawson, Steven F. "A Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement," American Historical Review 96 (1991): 456-71.

Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. (1999)

Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Struggle. (1995)

Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. (1997)

Sandage, Scott A. "A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963," Journal of American History, 24(1993): 135-67.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. (1996)

Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. (1999)

Van Deburg. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. (1992)

Ward, Brian. Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations. (1998)