
Selected Resources
NCDS Library
Reference
REF/973/ENC Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar Unites States 1946 to 1968. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
REF/973.921 20th Century America Civil Rights and the Great Society 1961-1967. New York: Grolier, 1995.
Nonfiction Resources
364.15/CRO Crowe, Chris. Getting away with murder: the true story of the Emmett Till case. New York: Dial, 2003.
B/KIN Darby, Jean. Martin Luther King, Jr. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1990.
B/WEL Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin. Ida B. Wells: mother of the civil rights movement. New York: Clarion Books, 2000.
B/FRA Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin. The power of one: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine. New York: Clarion Books, 2004.
B/GAT Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Colored People: a memoir. New York: Vintage, 1994.
345.761/HAS Haskins, James. The Scottsboro boys. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
B/HEI Height, Dorothy. Open wide the freedom gates: a memoir. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.
B/KIN Jakoubek, Robert. Martin Luther King, Jr. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.
342.73/KLA Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to civil rights: the supreme court and the struggle for racial equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
973/LEV Levine, Ellen. Freedon's Children: young civil rights activists tell their own stories. New York: Putnam, 1993.
973/MAS Masoff, Joy. The African American story. New York: Five Ponds Press, 2007.
379.2/MOR Morrison, Toni. Remember: the journey to school integration. Boston: Houghton, 2004.
B/X Myers, Walter Dean. Malcolm X: by any means necessary. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
811/NEL Nelson, Marilyn. A wreath for Emmett Till. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
323.4/SCH Schulke, Flip. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Norton, 1976.
811/WEA Weatherford, Carole Boston. Birmingham, 1963. Pennsylvania: Wordsong, 2007.
323.4/WIL Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Videos
VHS/B/MAR Martin Luther King, Jr. The Man and the Dream. Dir. John Akomfrah. Videocassette. A&E Home Video, 1997.
Websites
American Civil Rights Institute
http://www.acri.org/
American Experience-Citizen King
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/
American Experience-Eyes on the Prize-26 Civil Rights Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/01_till.html
CNN Civil Right Timeline of Events
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html
The King Center
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
Library of Congress Memory Project Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
Little Rock Central High Memory Project
http://www.lrchmemory.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
The Martin Luther King, Jr Research and Education Institute
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
National Park Services-Historic Site of Martin Luther King, Jr
http://www.nps.gov/malu/
PBS-African American World Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html
Smithsonian-Separate Not Equal Brown v. Board of Education
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html
Time Magazine Tribute to Martin Luther King
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/king.html