LibGuides: Black History Month 2012: Books on Display

BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr
Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy: A Collection of Essays by Deborah L. Rhode & Charles J. Ogletree, Jr
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education by Orville Vernon Burton & David O'Brien

BIOGRAPHIES

A Search for Equal Justice by African-American Lawyers: A History of the National Bar Association by Elmer C. Jackson & Jacob U. Gordon
A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History by Michael L. Thurmond
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. by J.L. Chestnut, Jr. & Julia Cass
Blacks in the Law: Philadelphia and the Nation by Geraldine R. Segal
Clarence Thomas: A Biography by Andrew Peyton Thomas
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall by Carl T. Rowan
Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Genna Rae McNeil
He, too, Spoke for Democracy: Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier by Phillip McGuire
Horace T. Ward: Desegration of the University of Georgia, Civil Rights Advocacy, and Jurisprudence by Maurice C. Daniels
Journey to Justice by Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., with Tim Rutten
Justice Thurgood Marshall: Crusader for Liberalism: His Judicial Biography, 1908-1993 by Randall Walton Bland
Make it Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels
The March for Civil Rights: The Benjamin Hooks Story by Benjamin L. Hooks with Jerry Guess
The Martyrs: Sixteen Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice by Jack Mendelsohn
My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr by Coretta Scott King
Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy After Brown v. Board by Elwood Watson
Race versus Robe: The Dilemma of Black Judges by Michael David Smith
Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers by J. Clay Smith Jr
To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black history and Culture
A Time to Speak, A Time to Act; The Movement in Politics by Julian Bond
Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights by John Braeman
Civil Rights in American History: Major Historical Interpretations by Kermit L. Hall
The Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy by Anna Kosof
The Civil Rights Reader: Basic Documents of the Civil Rights Movement by Leon Friedman
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America by Andrew P. Napolitano
Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice by Brian K. Landsberg
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 by Lawrence Goldstone
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation by Charles A. Lofgren
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton
Tear Down the Walls! A History of the American Civil Rights Movement by Dorothy Sterling