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My Soul Looks Back in Wonder
One of the most pivotal moments in American history is brought to light through stirring, thought-provoking eyewitness accounts from people who have played active roles in the civil rights movement over the past 50 years.
We are Not Afraid
In 1964 college students and civil rights activists came to the South to join the struggle for racial justice. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young men paid for their convictions with their lives. This is the true account of the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner at the hands of Ku Klux Klansmen and local police. Described as "one of the best books on the civil rights movement," the murders it describes inspired the acclaimed film, Mississippi Burning. The events surrounding this seminal event re-entered public debate with the 2005 conviction of manslaughter by Klansman and Imperial Wizard, Edgar Ray Killen, for his part in orchestrating the murders.--From publisher description.
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the rarely studied southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the cold war, using the strategically located river city of Memphis as a case study. Michael Honey analyzes the economic basis of segregation and the denial of fundamental human rights and civil liberties it entailed. Frequently telling his story through personal portraits of those directly involved, Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of organizers and ordinary workers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise. His study of interracial industrial union organizing locates some of the roots of the 1960s civil rig...
Free At Last
Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the turbulent years of struggle to life, and gives a vivid and powerful experience of what it was like not so very long ago. Provides a brief overview of black history in the US, discussing the civil-rights movement chronologically through stories and photos.
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders FBI Files
"948 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering the investigation of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Includes correspondence, memorandums, and reports of the investigation of the murders of Michael Henry Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. The FBI code name for the case was MIBURN (Mississippi Burning)."--Http://www.paperlessarchives.com/miburn.html.
Anatomy of a Civil Rights Worker
Civil rights activist Willie B. Ludden, Jr.s memoirs tell the courageous story of an individual willing to die for what he believes in. His book is an insiders account of the civil rights movement during the early 60s. As part of the NAACP, Willie trained and led young African Americans to take a non-violent stand against racism. In Jackson, he worked with Medgar Evers and was one of the last people to see Medgar alive. On that fateful night, Medgar ironically worried about Willies safety, not his own. When Medgar died, a great leader was lost. But the movement could not be stopped.
The Civil Rights Movement
The years 1955 to 1968 are covered in literature published through 1991. Insightful annotations on key general and collected works as well as publications addressing such topics as the history of the civil rights movement in individual states, civil rights organizations, the federal government, participants in the movement and phases of the movement are examined.
Backfire
In this thought-provoking volume, the nation's leading historian on the Ku Klux Klan updates the story of America's oldest terrorist society. Chalmers skillfully illustrates how the Klan's violence in the 1960s indirectly aided in the civil rights movement and revolutionized the role of national government regarding the protection of civil rights. 8 photos.
The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial
Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try to defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.
