Suggested Reading

Civil Rights Movement and

Race Relations in Birmingham

Arsenault, Raymond, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bass, S. Jonathan. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight

Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Blackmon, Douglas A., Slavery by Another name: The Re-Enslavement of Black

People in America from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Doubleday,

2008.

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York:

Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVI, No. 3 (August 1990)

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

Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXV, No. 3 (August 1999).

Cassady, Kevin Anderson. “Black Leadership and the Civil Rights Struggle in

Birmingham, Alabama, 1960-1964.” Undergraduate Thesis, Georgetown

University, 1986.

Cochran, Lynda Dempsey. “Arthur Davis Shores: Advocate for Freedom.” M. A.

Thesis, Georgia Southern University, 1977.

Connerly, Charles E., “The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and

Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charlottesville: University of

Virginia Press, 2005.

Corley, Robert G. “The Quest for Racial Harmony: Race Relations in Birmingham,

Alabama, 1947-1963.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1979.

Corley, Robert G. “In Search of Racial Harmony: Birmingham Business Leaders

and Desegregation” in Elizabeth Jacoway and Davis S. Colburn (eds),

Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State

University Press, 1982.

Davis, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights

Movement. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the

Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press,

1997.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July 1999)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXV, NO. 2 (May 1999)

Eskew, Glenn T. “The Freedom Ride Riot and Political Reform in Birmingham,

1961-1963.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 3 (July 1996).

Feldman, Glenn. “The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1915-1954.” Ph.D. Dissertation,

Auburn University, 1995.

Garrow, David J. Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for

Civil Rights. New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1989.

Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVII, No. 3 (August 1991)

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern

Christian Ladership Conference. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April 1988)

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, NO. 1 (February 1988)

Gutwillig, Robert. “Six Days in Alabama.” Mademoiselle, September 1963.

Manis, Andrew M. A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press,

1999.

Maxwell, Louise Passey, “Remaking Jim Crow: Segregation and Urban Change in

Birmingham, Alabama, 1938-1963.” Ph.D. Dissertation, New York

University, 1999.

Morgan, Charles. A Time to Speak. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered.

New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1977.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (July 1979)

Roberts, Gene, and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights

Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Scribner, Christopher MacGregor. “Federal Funding, Urban Renewal, and Race

Relations: Birmingham in Transition, 1945-1955.” The Alabama Review,

Vol. XLVII, No. 4 (October 1995).

Sikora, Frank. Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case.

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991.

Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April 1993)

Smith, Petric J. Long Time Coming: An Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church

Bombing that Rocked the World. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers, 1994.

Snell, William Robert. “The Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson County, Alabama, 1916-1930.”

M.A. Thesis, Samford University, 1967.

Stanton, Mary, “Emory O’ Jackson: The Voice of Black Birmingham.” Alabama

Heritage, No. 88 (Spring 2008).

Thornton, J. Mills, III, Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil

Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of

Alabama Press, 2002.

White, Marjorie, A Walk to Freedom: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964. Birmingham:

Birmingham Historical Society, 1998.

White, Tara Y., “Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1963: Women of the

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in Birmingham, Alabama.”

M.A. Thesis, State University of New York at Oneonta, 2002.

Wilson, Bobby M., America’s Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial

Transformation in Birmingham. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.