Paper 24 reading list

25. CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER
Includes: Origins of black protest; strategies of protest; ideas of resistance; the interplay between local
protest and the national movement; leadership and the role of King; the impact of the federal government
and Supreme Court; Black Power; the relationship between civil rights and the Cold War; the legacy of the
civil rights movement.
a. Overviews
Robert Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty (1988)
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long History of the Civil Rights Movement,” JAH (2005)
Michael J. Klarman “How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis,” JAH (1994)
Steven Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1991)
Peter Ling and Sharon Monteith, eds., Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999)
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (1991)
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008)
Stephen Tuck, We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to
Obama (2010), chapters 7-10
John White, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in America (1991)
b. Origins
Tony Badger, and Brian Ward eds., The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
(1996)
Manfred Berg, “Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP in the Early Cold War,”
JAH (2007)
Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000)
Kari A. Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (2001)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008)
Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Lost and Found: Labor, Radicals and the Early
Civil Rights Movement,” JAH (1988-89)
Robin Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002)
David Lewis, “Origins and Causes of the Movement,” in C. Eagles, ed. The Civil Rights Movement in
America (1986)
40