Civil Rights Teaching: Framing

This is a sampling of the vast print resources available on the Civil Rights and related movements for social justice as detailed in Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching.

Visit Teaching for Change's Civil Rights Teaching website for more resources.

Anne Braden Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999

By Anne Braden and edited by Ben Wilkins

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By Margaret A. Burnham

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement

By Emilye Crosby (Editor)

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control

By Betsy Phillips

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

By Devery S. Anderson, Julian Bond (Foreword by)

Free All Along: The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

By Stephen Drury Smith (Editor), Catherine Ellis (Editor)

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South

By Mike Selby

The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

By Jon Hale

Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980

Edited by Theoharis, J., Woodard, K

Freedom Summer

By Bruce Watson

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Eighth Edition)

By John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Jr Moss

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

By Faith S. Holsaert (Editor), Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (Editor), Judy Richardson (Editor)

Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement

By Vincent Harding

In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

By Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

By Charles M. Payne

James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story

By Henry T. Gallagher, Gene Roberts (Foreword by)

Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement *

By Julian Bond,  Danny Lyon (Photographer), with a foreword by  Pamela Horowitz and an introduction by  Jeanne Theoharis 

King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South

By Jeanne Theoharis

The Legacy of a Freedom School

By S. Adickes

Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer

By Elizabeth Martinez (Editor), Julian Bond (Introduction by)

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

By Janet Dewart Bell

The Making of Black Revolutionaries: Illustrated Edition

By James Forman, Julian Bond (Foreword by)

The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights

By William P. Jones

The Mis-Education of the Negro

By Carter G. Woodson

Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement

By Deborah D. Douglas

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Jeanne Theoharis

A New Kind of Youth Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975

By Jon N. Hale

On the Freedom Side

By Wesley C. Hogan

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

A Past That Won't Rest

By Jim Lucas, Jim Lucas (Photographer), Jane Hearn (Editor)

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

By Jerry Mitchell

Race Man Selected Works, 1960-2015

By Julian Bond

Radical Equations: Bring the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to America's Schools

By Robert Moses and Charles E. Cobb

Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s

By Robert Cohen (Editor), David J. Snyder (Editor), Dan T. Carter (Foreword by)

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader*

By Michael Edmonds (Editor)

Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

By Simeon Booker, Carol McCabe Booker (With)

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

By Bettye Collier-Thomas (Editor), V. P. Franklin (Editor)

The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream

By Gary Younge

Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940 - 1970

By Laura Warren Hill

The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

By Joseph R. Fitzgerald

Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965

By James P. Marshall

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

By Thomas J. Sugrue

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song

By J. Armstrong, Et Buckner Armstrong (Editor), Julie Buckner Armstrong (Editor)

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

By Leslie G. Kelen (Editor), Julian Bond (Contribution by), Clayborne Carson (Contribution by)

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

By Charles E. Cobb

The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History

By Brian Jones

Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967

By Harry G. Lefever

Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia

By Matthew Countryman

We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords

By Miguel Melendez, Jose Torres (Introduction by)

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

By Akinyele Omowale Umoja

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