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Adair, Alvis V. Desegregation: The Illusion of Black Progress. Lanham: University Press of America, 1989.
Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Akin, Edward N. Mississippi: An Illustrated History. CA: Windsor Publications, 1987.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2010.
Ames, Lynda J and Jeanne Ellsworth. Women Reformed, Women Empowered: Poor Mothers and the Endangered Promise of Head Start. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
Andrews, Kenneth T. "The Impact of Social Movements on the Political Process: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi." American Sociological Review 62:5 (1997): 800-20.
Andrews, William L., ed. African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993.
Applebome, Peter. Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture. New York: Times Books, 1996.
Aptheker, Bettina. Woman’s Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.
Arensen, Eric. "Reconsidering the Long Civil Rights Movement." Historically Speaking (April 2009): 31-34.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ashmore, Susan Youngblood. Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ayers, H. Brandt and Thomas H. Naylor, eds. You Can’t Eat Magnolias. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Ayers, William. "'We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest until Its Done': Two Dauntless Women of the Civil Rights Movement and the Education of a People." Harvard Educational Review 59 (1989): 520-28.

Baker, Paula. "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920." American Historical Review 889 (June 1984): 620-47.
Barber, James David and Barbara Kellerman, eds. Women Leaders in American Politics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986.
Barnett, Bernice McNair. "Invisible Southern Black Women Leaders in the Movement: The Triple Constraints of Gender, Race and Class." Gender and Society 7:2 (1993): 162-82.
Bartley, Numan. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1969.
------. The New South, 1945-1980. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
Baruffalo, Raymond P. "Local Politics/Outside Interests: An Analysis of Gambling Proposals, Referendums, and Economic Development in Three Mississippi Counties." Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky, 2000.
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: David McKay, 1962.
Bay, Mia. The White Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don’t Cry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Beito, David T. "Black Fraternal Hospitals in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1967." Journal of Southern History LXV:1 (February 1999).
------. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Beito, David T., and Linda Royster Beito. Black Maverick: TRM Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer. New York: Viking Books, 1965.
Bell, W.Y. Jr. "The Negro Warrior’s Home Front." Phylon 5:3 (1944).
Bernhard, Virginia et. al., eds. Hidden Histories of Women in the New South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Bettis, Pamela J., Helen C. Cooks, and David a. Bergin. "'It’s Not Steps Anymore, but More Like Shuffling': Student Perceptions of the Civil Rights Movement and Ethnic Identity." Journal of Negro Education 63:2 (Spring 1994): 197-211.
Birnbaum, Jonathan and Clarence Taylor, eds. Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader On The Black Struggle. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Blumberg, Rhoda. Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.
Bolton, Charles C. "Mississippi’s School Equalization Program, 1945-1954: ‘A Last Gasp To Try To Maintain a Segregated Educational System.’" The Journal of Southern History 66:4 (November 2000): 781-814.
------. The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Bookman, Ann and Sandra Morgen, eds. Women and the Politics of Empowerment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Bouvard, Marguerite G. Women Reshaping Human Rights: How Extraordinary Activists Are Changing The World. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
------. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Braxton, Joanne M. Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within A Tradition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Brearley, H.C. "The Negro’s New Belligerency." Phylon 5:4 (1944).
Breen, William J. "Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform." Journal of Southern History 44 (August 1974): 421-40.
Brooks, Roy L. Integration or Separation?: A Strategy for Racial Equality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Brooks, Thomas. Walls Come Tumbling Down. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1974.
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. "Literacy as Power." Radical Teacher 8 (May 1978): 10.
Brown, Elsa Barkley. "Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom." Public Culture 7 (1994): 107-46.
------. "Polyrhythms and Improvisation: Lessons for Women’s History." History Workshop Journal 31 (1991): 85-90.
------. "'What Has Happened Here': The Politics of Difference in Women’s History and Feminist Politics." Feminist Studies 18 (Summer 1992): 295-312.
Butler, Judith and Joan W. Scott. Feminists Theorize the Political. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Cade, Toni. The Black Woman, An Anthology. New York: Penguin Books, 1970.
Cagin, Seth and Philip Dray. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988.
Callejo-Pérez, David. Southern Hospitality: Identity, Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1964-1972. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Campbell, Clarice T. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
Carson, Clayborne, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. The Eyes On The Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts From The Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Cash, William M and R. Daryl Lewis. The Delta Council: Fifty Years of Service to the Mississippi Delta. Stoneville: The Delta Council, 1986.
Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. New York: Vintage Books, 1941.
Chafe, William H. Women and Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
------. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
------. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
------. Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Chan, Wendy and Kiran Mirchandani. Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada. Ontario: Broadview Press, Ltd., 2002.
Charron, Katherine Mellen. Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Chong, Dennis. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Clark, James C. "Civil Rights Leader Harry T. Moore and the Ku Klux Klan in Florida." Florida Historical Quarterly 72 (October 1995): 166-83.
Clark, Robert F. The War on Poverty: History, Selected Programs and Ongoing Impact. Lanham: University Press of America, 2002.
Cobb, James C. "Somebody Done Nailed Us on the Cross: Federal Farm and Welfare Policy and the Civil Rights Movement in the Mississippi Delta." The Journal of American History 77:3 (December 1990): 912-36.
------. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cobb, James C and Michael V. Namorato, eds. The New Deal and the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.
Cohen, Cathy J., Kathleen B. Jones and Joan C. Tronto, eds. Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Cohodas, Nadine. Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Cole, David. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. New York: The New Press, 1999.
Collins, Patricia Hill. "The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother/Daughter Relationships." SAGE IV 2 (1987): 2-10.
------. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Couto, Richard A. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Crawford, Vicki, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Crosby, Emilye. A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Cummings, Richard. The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1985.
Current, Gloster B. "The Significance of the NAACP and Its Impact in the 1960s." The Black Scholar 19:1 (Jan/Feb 1988): 9-18.
Curry, Constance. Silver Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
------. ed. Deep In Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Dailey, Jane, Glenda Gilmore, and Bryant Simon, eds. Jumping Jim Crow: Southern Politics From Civil War To Civil Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Dalfiume, Richard M. "The ‘Forgotten Years’ of the Negro Revolution." Journal of American History 55:1 (June 1968): 90-106.
Daniel, Pete. Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
------. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.
Davis, Dernoral. "When Youth Protest: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1970." Mississippi: History Now. Online Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society. <http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/60/the-mississippi-civil-rights-movement-1955-1970-when-youth-protest>. 8 December 2010.
Davis, Vanessa Lynn. "'Sisters and Brothers All': The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Struggle for Political Equality." Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1996.
de Jong, Greta. Invisible Enemy: The African American Freedom Struggle after 1965. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2010.
Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verso, 1997.
Dent, Tom. Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1997.
Denvir, John. Democracy’s Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Dill, Bonnie Thornton. "The Dialectics of Black Womanhood." Signs 4 (Spring 1979): 543-55.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
------. Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Draper, Alan. Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Signet Classic, 1982.
Dudziak, Mary L. "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative." Stanford Law Review 41:61 (November 1988): 61-120.

Eagles, Charles W, ed. The Civil Rights Movement in America. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1981.
Eckardt, A.R. Black-Woman-Jew: Three Wars for Human Liberation. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1989.
Edwards, Laura. "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy in Granville County, North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 68 (July 1991): 237-60.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Ellard, Robert Miller. "A History of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Public Schools from 1905-1975." Ed.D. diss., University of Mississippi, 1977.
Ellsworth, Jeanne and Lynda J. Ames, eds. Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revising the Hope and Challenge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. "Positive Effects of the Multiple Negative: Explaining the Success of Black Professional Women." American Journal of Sociology (January 1973): 913-35
Erenrich, Susie, ed. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Washington, D.C.: Cultural Center for Social Change, 1999.
Eskew, Glenn T. But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Etter-Lewis, G. My Soul is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of the Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton. Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
Evers, Myrlie B. For Us, The Living. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1996.

Fairclough, Adam. "The Preachers and the People: The Origins of the Early Years of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955-1959." The Journal of Southern History 52:3 (August 1986): 403-40.
------. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
------. "History and the Civil Rights Movement." Journal of American Studies 24 (Dec 1990): 394.
------. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
------. "The Little Rock Crisis: Success or Failure for the NAACP?" The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56:3 (Autumn 1997): 371-75.
Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Arbor House, 1985.
Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration. Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State. New York: Hastings House, 1949.
Feimster, Crystal. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. New York: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Feldstein, Ruth. Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Fendrich, James. Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Fields, Barbara J. "Ideology and Race in American History." In Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward, edited by J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Findlay, James F. Church People In The Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fitzgerald, Tracey A. The National Council of Negro Women and the Feminist Movement, 1935-75. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1985.
Fleming, Cynthia. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Foner, Eric. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
Foreman, Christopher H., Jr., ed. The African American Predicament. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Foster, E.C. "A Time of Challenge: Afro-Mississippi Political Developments Since 1965." Journal of Negro History 68:2 (Spring 1983): 185-200.
Franck, Thomas M. The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fraser, Nancy. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Frederickson, Kari. "A Family Affair: Race, Gender, and the Familial Metaphor in the Dixiecrat Movement, 1938-1950." Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (1996): 25-36.

Garner, Roberta and John Tenuto. Social Movement Theory and Research: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1997.
Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow, 1986.
------. ed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Germany, Kent B. New Orleans After The Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for the Great Society. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
Gilkes, Cheryl. "’Holding Back the Ocean with a Broom’: Black Women and Community Work." In The Black Woman, edited by LaFrances Rodgers-Rose. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980.
_____. "Together and In Harness: Women’s Traditions in the Sanctified Church." Signs 10 (Summer 1985).
Gillespie, Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds. The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Gillette, Michael. "The NAACP in Texas, 1937-1957." Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1984.
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Gioia, Ted. Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Giroux, Henry A. and Susan Searls Giroux. Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Glen, John M. Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962. Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Grace Change and Linda Rennie Forcey, eds. Mothering: Ideology Experience, and Agency. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Glissant, Edouard. Faulkner in Mississippi. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1999.
Goings, Kenneth. The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
------. ed. The New African American Urban History. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishers, 1996.
Good, Paul. The Trouble I’ve Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1975.
Gordon, B. "Toward Emancipation in Citizenship Education: The Cases of African American Cultural Knowledge." Theory and Research in Social Education 12 (1985): 1-23.
Gordon, Jacob U, ed. The Black Male in White America. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Gosse, Van and Richard Moser, eds. The World The Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Graham, Maryemma. On Being Female, Black and Free. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1998.
Green, Melissa Fay. Praying For Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1991.
Greenberg, Cheryl, ed. A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Greenberg, Jack. Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Greenberg, Polly. The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Child Development Group of Mississippi. London: MacMillan, 1969.
Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Gregory, Dick and Robert Lipsyte. Nigger. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1964.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "Who Set You Flowin’?": The African-American Migration Narrative. New York: Oxford University, 1995.
Grofman, Bernard, ed. Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Set Back into a Strong New Vision of Social Justice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Gullet, Gayle. "A Contest over Meaning: Finding Gender, Class, and Race in Progressivism." History of Education Quarterly 33:2 (1993): 233-39.

Haines, Herbert. Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Mainstream. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Random House, 1998.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in South, 1890-1940. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Haley, Alex and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
------. "Mobilizing Memory: Broadening Our View of the Civil-Rights Movement," The Chronicle Review (27 July 2001): B10.
------. "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political uses of the Past." Journal of American History 91:4 (March 2005).
Hamilton, Dona Cooper. "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New Deal Reform Legislation: A Dual Agenda." Social Service Review 68:4 (1994): 488-502.
Hamlin, Françoise N. "Collision and Collusion: Local Activism, Local Agency and Flexible Alliances" In Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, edited by Ted Ownby, pxx. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
------. "Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ): Mothering the Movement." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 22:1 (Spring 2005): 19-27.
------. ""The Book Hasn’t Closed, the Story Isn’t Finished': Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement." Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2004.
------. "Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ): Mothering The Movement." In Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, edited by Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth A. Payne and Marjorie J. Spruill, 281-298. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
------. "The Book Hasn’t Closed, The Story is Not Finished: Coahoma County, Mississippi, Civil Rights and the Recovery of a History." Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2:2002, 37-60.
Hampton, Henry and Steven Fayer, eds. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
Harding, Vincent. There Is A River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1981.
Hardy, Gayle J. American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliographies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992. Jefferson: McFarland, 1993.
Harris, Frederick C. "Something Within: Religion as a Mobilizer of African American Political Activism." Journal of Politics 56 (February 1994): 42-68.
------. Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Hartmann, S. From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics Since 1960. New York: Knopf, 1989.
Hawkins, Denise. "Mississippi’s Crusading Gadfly." Black Issues In Higher Education 19:24 (January 2003): 18-22.
Haygood, Wil. "The NAACP Honors Its Heroes: A Report on the 1997 Convention." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 17 (Autumn 1997): 126-27.
Heard, Alexander. Southern Primaries and Elections, 1920-1949. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1950.
Henry, Aaron. The Fire Ever Burning. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.
Hewitt, Nancy A. and Suzanne Lebsock. Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Too Much To Ask: Black Women In The Era of Integration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. "African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race." Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251-74.
------. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Hightower, Sheree, Cathie Stanga and Carol Cox, eds. Mississippi Observed: Photographs from the Photography Collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with Selections from Literary Works by Mississippians. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
Hill, Herbert. "The Problem of Race in American Labor History." Reviews in American History 24 (1996): 189-208.
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black Women in White. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
------, ed. Black Women In United States History. New York: Carlson Publishers, 1990.
Hodes, Martha. "The Sexualization of Reconstruction Politics: White Women and Black Men in the South after the Civil War." Journal of the History of Sexuality 3 (1993): 402-17.
------. White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth Century South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Hogan, Wesley C. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Holsaert, Faith S. et.al., eds. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Holt, Len. The Summer That Didn’t End. New York: Marrow, 1965.
Holtzclaw, Robert Fulton. Black Magnolias: A Brief History of the Afro-Mississippian – 1865- 1980. Ohio: The Keeble Press, 1984.
Honey, Maureen. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Honey, Michael. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
------. Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Honigsberg, Peter Jan. Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Hooks, Bell. Talking Back. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
Horton, Miles. The Long Haul. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Howard, John. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Howell, Leon. Freedom City. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1969.
Huie, William Bradford. Wolf Whistle. New York: Signet, 1959.
_____. Three Lives for Mississippi. New York: WCC Books, 1965.
Hunter, Tera W. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. New York: HarperCollins, 1990 (1st ed., 1935).

Irons, Jenny. "The Shaping of Activist Recruitment and Participation: A Study of Women in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement." Gender and Society 12:6 (December 1988): 692-709.
Isserman, Maurice and Michael Kazin. American Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Jacobson, Matthew F. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and The Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
James, Joy, ed. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.
James, Stanlie M. and Abena P.A. Busia, eds. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Janiewski, Dolores E. Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.
Jenkins, William L. Mississippi United Methodist Churches: Two Hundred Years of Heritage and Hope. Franklin: Providence House Publishers, 1998.
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