America’s Struggle for Civil Rights

 

“When you drink from the water, remember its source”

-        Chinese proverb

 

Recommended Readings

For January 2012

This month we celebrate MLK Jr. and other freedom  fighters, whose struggles made possible the many economic, political and social changes for a democratic society.

You’ll find these books and others titles on the Recommended Reading list Book Shelf and in the library collection.

E-BOOKS

 

Civil Rights in Wartime   ebrary Reader
                  Author: Sidh S.   Gohil, Neha Singh
                Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 12/2009
Subjects: Sikhs — Civil rights — United States.   Discrimination — Law and legislation — United States.   Minorities — Legal status, laws, etc. — United States.   Terrorism — Prevention — Law and legislation — United States.   September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.   Terrorism — United States — Prevention.
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Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom   ebrary Reader
Author: King, Richard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Publication Date: 04/1992
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights.   African Americans — Civil rights — Moral and ethical aspects.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Moral and ethical aspects — United States.
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965   ebrary Reader
Author: Houck, Davis W.   Dixon, David E.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 01/2009
Subjects: Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   Women civil rights workers — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century — Sources.   African American women civil rights workers — History — 20th century — Sources.   Women civil rights workers — United States — Biography.   African American women civil rights workers — Biography.   Women — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   United States — Race relations — Sources.
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Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: London, Samuel G.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 10/2009
Subjects: Civil rights — Religious aspects — Christianity.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century.   Seventh-Day Adventists — Political activity.   Christianity and politics — Seventh-Day Adventists.   Seventh-Day Adventists — Doctrines.
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We Shall Overcome : A History of Civil Rights and the Law   ebrary Reader
Author: Tsesis, Alexander
Publisher: Yale University Press
Original Publication Date: 10/2008
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — History.
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Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: Gutierrez, Margo   Gutierrez, Margo   Meier, Matt S.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Original Publication Date: 05/2000
Subjects: Mexican Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century — Encyclopedias.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century — Encyclopedias.
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Major Civil Rights Events 1954-1968 — North America, United States, Map   ebrary Reader
Author: Maps.com
Publisher: Maps.com
Original Publication Date: 02/1999
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — Maps.   United States — Maps.
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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission : Civil Rights and States’ Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Katagiri, Yasuhiro
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 11/2001
Subjects: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission — History.   African Americans — Civil rights — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Segregation — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   States’ rights (American politics) — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   Mississippi — Politics and government — 1951-   Mississippi — Race relations.
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Nixon’s Civil Rights : Politics, Principle, and Policy   ebrary Reader
Author: Kotlowski, Dean J.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Original Publication Date: 2001
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — History — 20th century.   Affirmative action programs — Government policy — United States — History — 20th century.   United States — Politics and government — 1969-1974.
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Daisy Bates : Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas   ebrary Reader
Author: Stockley, Grif
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 10/2005
Subjects: Bates, Daisy.   Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)   African American women civil rights workers — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   African Americans — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   Civil rights workers — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   Civil rights movements — Arkansas — Little Rock — History.   School integration — Arkansas — Little Rock — History.   Little Rock (Ark.) — Biography.   Little Rock (Ark.) — Race relations.   Arkansas — Race relations.
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Civil Justice in the Age of Human Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Jacob, Joseph M.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 02/2007
Subjects: Civil procedure — Great Britain.   Civil rights — Great Britain.   Due process of law — Great Britain.
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Divine Agitators : The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi   ebrary Reader
Author: Newman, Mark F.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2004
Subjects: Delta Ministry.   Civil rights movements — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   Civil rights — Religious aspects — Christianity.   African Americans — Civil rights — Mississippi.   Mississippi — Race relations — History — 20th century.
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Betrayal : How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era   ebrary Reader
Author: Baker, Houston A.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Original Publication Date: 03/2010
Subjects: African American intellectuals — Political activity.   African Americans — Civil rights.   Civil rights movements — United States.
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Covering : The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Yoshino, Kenji
Publisher: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 01/2006
Subjects: Japanese American lawyers — United States — Biography.   Yoshino, Kenji.   Gay lawyers — United States — Biography.   Gay rights — United States.   Civil rights — United States.   Assimilation (Sociology)
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Going South : Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: Schultz, Debra L.
Publisher: NYU Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2001
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Jewish women — United States — Political activity — History — 20th century.   Jewish women — United States — Biography.   Women civil rights workers — Southern States — Biography.   African Americans — Relations with Jews.   Civil rights movements — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Oral history.   Southern States — Race relations.
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Passion for Justice : J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Yarbrough, Tinsley E.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Publication Date: 11/1987
Subjects: Waring, Julius Waties, — 1880-1968.   United States. — District Court (South Carolina : Eastern District)   Judges — United States — Biography.   Civil rights — United States.
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Fight Against Fear : Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Webb, Clive
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Original Publication Date: 04/2001
Subjects: African Americans — Southern States — Relations with Jews.   Jews — Southern States — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Civil rights — Southern States — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Segregation — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Southern States — Race relations.   Southern States — Ethnic relations.
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Freedom Facts and Firsts : 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience   ebrary Reader
Author: Smith, Jessie Carney   Wynn, Linda T.
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2009
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights — History.   Civil rights workers — United States — Biography.   African American civil rights workers — Biography.   African Americans — Biography.   United States — Race relations — History.
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BOOKS  

1. Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present / edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek ; foreword by David J. Garrow.

1992

305.896 E56

Available, Reference Collection, Plaza East

1. Encyclopedia of American social movements / edited by Immanuel Ness ; foreword by Stephen Eric Bronner and Frances Fox Piven.

2004

301.0973 E56am 2004

Multiple items available, Reference Collection, Plaza East

1. Civil Rights History Project Act of 2008 [electronic resource] : report (to accompany H.R. 998) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration.

2008

Y 1.1/8:110-848

Available, Government Documents Online

1. I have a dream : writings and speeches that changed the world / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreword by Coretta Scott King ; edited by James Melvin Washington.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

1992

323.1196073 K53i 1992

Available, 3rd floor, West

5.   Born in Seattle : the campaign for Japanese American redress / Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro.

Shimabukuro, Robert Sadamu.

2001

940.547273 S556b 2001

Available, 4th floor, East

1. Law, bureaucracy, and politics : the implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Augustus J. Jones Jr.

Jones, Augustus J.

1982

342.73 J76L

Available, 3rd floor, West

1. Freedom now! The civil-rights struggle in America. Edited by Alan F. Westin.

Westin, Alan F.

1964

301.451 W529f

Available, 3rd floor, West

1. Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 / Taylor Branch.

Branch, Taylor.

1989

973.0496 B816p 1989

Available, 4th floor, East

1. How did this happen here? : Japanese internment camps / Leni Donlan.

Donlan, Leni.

2008

940.547273 D684h 2008

Available, New Readers Collection, Room 419

Videos 

Who Killed Vincent Chin? [videorecording] / a production of Film News Now Foundation & WTVS                          Detroit ; producer, Renee Tajima ; director, Christine Choy.

1988

305.8951 W628 1988

Of civil wrongs and rights [videorecording] : the Fred Korematsu Story / a film by Eric Paul Fornier.

2000

940.5472 O31 2000

Eyes on the prize : America’s civil rights years. Mississippi : is this America? [videorecording] / Blackside, Inc.

1986

323.4 E97 1986

Eyes on the prize, II. Back to the movement, 1979-1983 [videorecording] : America at the racial crossroads / Blackside, Inc. ; produced, directed and written by Madison Davis Lacy, James A. DeVinney.

1990

323.4 E97 1990

Yuri Kochiyama [videorecording] : a passion for justice / YK Project ; produced and directed by Patricia Saunders and Rea Tajiri.

2006

323.092 K76 1993

Of civil wrongs and rights [videorecording] : the Fred Korematsu Story / a film by Eric Paul Fornier.

2000

940.5472 O31 2000

 

Websites

The King Center

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

 

SEATTLE CIVIL RIGHTS AND LABOR HISTORY PROJECT

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/

 

National Civil Rights Museum

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

 

 International Civil Rights Center and Museum

http://www.sitinmovement.org/

 

Museum of Tolerance

http://www.museumoftolerancenewyork.com

 

  National Women’s History Museum

http://www.nwhm.org/

 

Japanese American Museum

http://www.janm.org/

 

Chinese American Museum

http://www.camla.org/

 

National Museum of the American Indian

http://www.nmai.si.edu/