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RECENT STUDIES ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

David L. Armor, Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law (1995).

Howard Ball, Dale Krane and Thomas P. Lauth, Compromised Compliance: Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (1982).

Jack Bloom, Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement (1987).

William G. Bowen and Derek Bok, The Shape of the River (1998).

Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York, 1998).

Eric Burner, And Gently Shall He Lead Them: Robert Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994).

Stewart Burns (ed.), Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1997).

David Chalmers, And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Changes in the 1960s (1991).

David S. Cecelski, Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South (Chapel Hill, 1994).

David Chappell, Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement (Baltimore, 1994).

David R. Colburn, Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980 (1985).

Vickie L. Crawford, et al, eds., Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers (Brooklyn, 1990).

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

Glen T. Eskew, But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997).
 

Adam Fairclough, Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1915-1972 (Athens, 1995).

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

James F. Findlay, Jr. Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970 (1993).

Ron Formisano, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (1991)

John M. Glen, Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 (Lexington, 1988).

Hugh Davis Graham, The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy (1990).

Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Movement (New York, 1994).

Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s (New York, 1990).

Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992).

Steven F. Lawson, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics Since 1941 (New York, 1991).

Steven F. Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 (1998).

Anthony Lukas, Common Ground (1985)

Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1997).

Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency,1930-1970 (Chicago, 1982).

Aldon D. Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement : Black Communities Organizing for Change (1986?).

Robert Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (New York, 1985).

Kenneth O'Reilly, "Racial matters": The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 (1989).

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

George Pickering, Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago (Athens, 1986).

Fred Powledge, Free At Last?: The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It (Boston, 1991).

Mark Stern, Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson and Civil Rights (1992).

Abigail M. Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (1987).

Mark Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (Chapel Hill, 1987).

Michael Eric Tyson, The Making of Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (1995).
 
 

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

Stephen J. Whitfield, A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till (1989).

William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Chicago, 1987).

Andrew Young, An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the

Transformation of America (New York, 1996).