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This bibliography highlights the role of the Senate in shaping legislation on Civil Rights and the history and political climate of the Civil Rights movement from differing perspectives, including personal stories of participants in the movement as well as biographies of some of the great Civil Rights leaders.
The Senate and Civil Rights
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen (2014)
The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy by Hugh Davis Graham (1990)
Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965 by Keith M. Finley (2008)
Everett Dirksen and his Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics by Byron C. Hulsey (2001)
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Todd S. Purdum (2014)
The Longest Debate: A Legislative History of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Charles and Barbara Whalen (1985)
Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader: A Different Kind of Senate, 1961-1976 by Francis R. Valeo (1999)
The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle by Timothy N. Thurber (1999)
The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch (2008)
The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Robert Mann (1996)
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The Civil Rights Movement
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch (2006)
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge (2008)
The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality by Nick Bryant (2006)
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (2009)
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault (2006)
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson (2010)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009) Audiobook
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz (2005)
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch (2013)
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012)
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones (2013)
Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall edited by Michael G. Long (2011)
A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution by David A. Nichols (2007)
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My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience by Juan Williams (2004)
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner (2010)
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1989)
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch (1998)
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007) Audiobook.
Reporting Civil Rights The Library of America (2003)
Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches edited by Josh Gottheimer (2003)
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue (2008)
Related Biographies
Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change by John Lewis (2012)
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (2004)
The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen (2003)
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement by James Farmer (1985)
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio (2004)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2011)
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr edited by Hollinger F. Barnard (1985)
Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph (2014)
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Civil Rights in America ______
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams (1998)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis with Michael D’Orso (1999)
W.E.B. DuBois by David Levering Lewis (1993-2000)
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