Bibliography
BASS, JACK. Unlikely Heroes (1991). Account of the role of federal judges in implementing desegregation in the South.
BASS, JONATHAN S. Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2001). Study of King’s writing of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and of the eight white clergymen toward whom it was directed.
BRANCH, TAYLOR. Parting the Waters (1988). A history of America during the King years, 1954–1963. His Pillar of Fire(1998) takes the story to 1965; and At Canaan’s Edge (2006) continues to 1968.
BRAUER, CARL M. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977). Kennedy’s role in the civil rights movement.
CARSON, CLAYBORNE. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981). History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
ESKEW, GLENN T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997). A study of the local and national forces at work in Birmingham—both in defending and attacking segregation.
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. Stride Toward Freedom (1958). King’s account of the Montgomery bus boycott.
———. Why We Can’t Wait (1963). King’s account of Birmingham with his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
LANDSBERG, BRIAN K. Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice (1997). Account of the activities of the Civil Rights Division by a former attorney for the Department of Justice.
MALCOLM X. Autobiography (1966). Life story of the foremost black nationalist of his time.
NUNNELLEY, WILLIAM A. Bull Connor (1991). Biography of the police commissioner who opposed King at Birmingham.
BASS, JACK. Unlikely Heroes (1991). Account of the role of federal judges in implementing desegregation in the South.
BASS, JONATHAN S. Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2001). Study of King’s writing of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and of the eight white clergymen toward whom it was directed.
BRANCH, TAYLOR. Parting the Waters (1988). A history of America during the King years, 1954–1963. His Pillar of Fire(1998) takes the story to 1965; and At Canaan’s Edge (2006) continues to 1968.
BRAUER, CARL M. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977). Kennedy’s role in the civil rights movement.
CARSON, CLAYBORNE. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981). History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
ESKEW, GLENN T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997). A study of the local and national forces at work in Birmingham—both in defending and attacking segregation.
KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. Stride Toward Freedom (1958). King’s account of the Montgomery bus boycott.
———. Why We Can’t Wait (1963). King’s account of Birmingham with his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
LANDSBERG, BRIAN K. Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice (1997). Account of the activities of the Civil Rights Division by a former attorney for the Department of Justice.
MALCOLM X. Autobiography (1966). Life story of the foremost black nationalist of his time.
NUNNELLEY, WILLIAM A. Bull Connor (1991). Biography of the police commissioner who opposed King at Birmingham.
