The Struggle for Civil Rights in Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

Note: Other divisions of the Hargrett Library also have important sources regarding Georgia and the Civil Rights Movement.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

“Civil Rights Movement.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2716&sug=y
Also see Albany Movement, Americus Movement, Black Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Bus Desegregation in Atlanta, Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Civil Rights Digital Library: Documenting America's Struggle for Racial Equality.
http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home
Comprehensive and searchable database/virtual library on the Civil Rights Movement; includes articles, links, and film clips.

Freedom on Film: Civil Rights in Georgia. University of Georgia.
http://www.civilrights.uga.edu/
Pertains specifically to the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia; includes film clips, articles, bibliographies, lesson plans, and links to outside articles and sites.

VERTICAL FILES

General Information

African Americans - Culture and History:
Clippings and articles from newspapers, journals, and magazines from the 1980s-1990s on topics including: Black history, leaders and business owners, and culture

African Americans (1-5):
Clippings from 1900-1990s on topics including: Voting, Politics, Protests, Churches and Religion, African American Successes, Black Leaders, Civil Rights Movement, Integration, Racial Discrimination, and Black History.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "In the Black Belt." American Magazine, July 1907.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "An Ostracized Race in Ferment." American Magazine, May 1908.
"Bibliography for the Negro in Georgia." no date.
Blaine, James G., L.Q.C. Lamar, Wade Hampton, James A. Garfield, Alex H. Stephens, Wendell Phillips, and others. "Ought the Negro to be Disfranchised? Ought He to have been Enfranchised?" North American Review, March 1879.
Colquitt, Alfred H. "Is the Negro Vote Suppressed?" Forum, November 1887.
Dyer, Mrs. D.B. "Some Types in Dixieland." Cosmopolitan, January 1897.
"The Great Strike Down South." Current Literature, July 1909.
"Is the Black Man Superior to the White?" Tom Watson's Magazine, no date.
Martin, George Madden. "Race Cooperation." McClure's, October 1922.
Northen, W.J. "The Negro Situation - One Way Out." World Today, September 1907.
Procter, Rev. H.H., D.D. "A Southerner of the New School; William J. Northen." Southern Workman, July 1913.
Scomp, Prof. Henry A. "Can the Race Problem Be Solved?" Forum, December 1889.
Some Books and Pamphlets, Music, Magazines, and Newspapers by Negro Writers, Composers, and Editors in the Colored Department of the Louisville Free Public Library." Louisville, KY: 1921.
Stone, P.H., State Agent for Negro Work. "Narrative Report - Men's Work." August 1929.
Thomas, David Y. "A Local Study of the Race Problem." Political Science Quarterly, June 1911.
Walrond, Eric D. "The Largest Negro Commercial Enterprise in the World." Forbes Magazine, 2 Feb 1924.

Albany - Integration (1-2):
Clippings from 1961-1964 on the Albany Movement and demonstrations.

Americus:
Clippings from the 1960s regarding the Civil Rights Movement in Americus.

Black Legislators:
Clippings, primarily 1940s-1990s, on topics including:
Numbers of Black Legislators, Individual Legislators, Discrimination, Legislation about Race, and Desegregation of Politics.

Busing:
Clippings, primarily from the early 1970s, regarding Busing and School Integration.

Civil Rights (1-2):
Clippings from late 1940s - 1980s on topics including:
Politics, Civil Rights Legislation and Opposition, Demonstrations in Georgia through the 1980s, and Legal Battles.

Freedom Riders:
Clippings regarding 1961 Freedom Ride and 1963 Freedom Walkers.

Georgia States Rights Council:
Clippings from the 1960s regarding Civil Rights Legislation and States' Rights Movements and Supporters.

Highlander Folk School:
"Highlander Folk School: Communist Training School, Monteagle, Tenn." Georgia Commission on Education, 1957.

Integration (19 Folders total):
Clippings from 1940s - 1990s on topics including:
School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Sit-ins, Marches, Protests and Demonstrations, Voting Rights, Local Movements in Georgia, and the Integration of UGA, including special editions of the Red and Black.

Koinonia Farm (1-2):
Clippings from 1950s-1980s regarding Civil Rights and the History of Koinonia.

Ku Klux Klan - General (1-2); and 6 Folders by Year:
Clippings, primarily 1920s-1980s on topics including:
Opposition and Support for the Klan, Membership, Politics, Cross Burnings, Mobs and Floggings, Opposition to the Civil Rights Movement.
Boyd, Thomas. "Defying the Klan." Forum, July 1926.
Desmond, Shaw. "K.K.K.: The Strangest Secret Society on Earth." Wide World, September 1921.
Glavis, Louis R. "The Ku Klux Klan Invades Two Capitals." Hearst's Magazine, February 1924.
Greene, Ward. "Notes for a History of the Klan." American Mercury, June 1925.
"Israel Zangwill on the Ku Klux Klan." The Landmark, June 1924.
"The Negro Situation." KKK Publication, ca. 1927.
Percy, Leroy. "The Modern Ku Klux Klan." Atlantic, July 1922.
Stockbridge, Frank. "The Ku Klux Klan Revival." Current History, April 1921.
White, Walter F. "Reviving the Ku Klux Klan." Forum, April 1921.

Lynching:
Clippings about historical lynchings, primarily from 1980s-1990s
Ames, Jessie Daniel. "Southern Women and Lynching." October 1936.
"Georgia's Body-Blow at Mob Murder." Literary Digest, 4 December 1926.
Terrell, Mary Church. "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View." North American Review, January 1904.

Race Relations (1-2):
Clippings primarily from 1950s-1990s on topics including:
Racial Unrest, Blackburn Custody Case, Integration, Politics, Civil Rights Movement, Business, Racism and Discrimination, White Supremacy
Baker, Ray Stannard. "Following the Color Line, White Man and Negro in the Black Belt." American Magazine, August 1907.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "The Tragedy of the Mulatto." American Magazine, April 1908.
Baker, Ray Stannard. "What to Do about the Negro." American Magazine, September 1908.
Pitman, J.H. "White Supremacy in the South." American Journal of Politics, June 1893.

Schools - Private:
Clippings from 1930s-1990s on topics including establishment of private schools for racial reasons during the 1960s

Segregation (14 folders):
Clippings from 1900s-1980s, on topics including:
Schools, Colleges, Military, Voting, Juries, Politics, Jobs, Court Rulings and Trials, Recreation and Athletics, Segregation Amendment, Buses, Churches and Religion, Demonstrations and Sit-ins, White Flight and Resegregation
Weatherford, W.D. "Racial Segregation in the Rural South." The Survey, 2 January 1913.

Segregation - Pamphlets:
Ashmore, Harry S. "The Easy Chair: The Untold Story Behind Little Rock." Reprint Harper's Magazine June 1958.
Cook, Eugene. "The Georgia Constitution and Mixed Public Schools."
Cook, Eugene to M.D. Collins. [Published letters regarding segregation and teachers.] 6 Oct 1954, 13 Oct 1954, 14 Oct 1954.
"Desegregation in Higher Education." Southern Regional Council, 13 February 1963.
Griffin, Marvin. [Letter requesting support for Segregation Amendment.] 22 Oct 1954.
Hunt, R.L., Director, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. [Letter on church position on School Desegregation Rulings.] 18 April 1955.
Pittman, R. Carter. "The Supreme Court, the Broken Constitution, and the Shattered Bill of Rights." [States Rights Council of Georgia, Inc.] no date.
"Report of the Georgia Commission on Education, Adopted September 28, 1954."
"Report Prepared for Georgia Commission on Education in Answer to 25 Questions asked in GEA Release of September 1, 1954, with Reference to Proposed School Segregation Constitutional Amendment."
Talmadge, Herman E. to the People of Georgia [Letter Regarding Information on Segregation.] no date.
"What Georgia's Leaders Think about the School Segregation Amendment."

Georgia Biography

Civil Rights Movement Leaders and Supporters:
Abernathy, Ralph. Bond, Julian (2). Bootle, William A. Holmes, Hamilton. Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. King, C.B. King, Coretta Scott. King, Martin Luther, Jr. (11). Lewis, John. Mays, Benjamin E. McGill, Ralph (2). Smith, Lillian. Ward, Horace T. Young, Andrew.

Georgia Politicians During the Civil Rights Movement:
Ivan Allen, Jr., Garland Byrd, Samuel Marvin Griffin (4), Richard Russell, Herman E. Talmadge (3), Ernest Vandiver (2).

University of Georgia

Integration (4 folders)

Georgia Cities

Athens - Race Relations. Also see Race Relations for Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah.

Atlanta - Atlanta University. Also see Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman.

Atlanta - Civil Rights Organizations. Also see NAACP.

Atlanta - Integration (3 folders).

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

McPheeters, Annie L. Negro Progress in Atlanta, Georgia 1950-1960: A Selective Bibliography on Human Relations from Four Atlanta Newspapers. Atlanta, 1964.
Z1361 .N39 M3

McPheeters, Annie L. Negro Progress in Atlanta, Georgia 1961-1970: A Selective Bibliography on Race and Human Relations from Four Atlanta Newspapers. Atlanta, 1972.
Z1361 .N3 M32

EARLY EFFORTS FOR RACIAL EQUALITY

Ames, Jessie Daniel. Repairers of the Breach: A Story of Interracial Cooperation Between Southern Women, 1935-1940. Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1940.
E185.61 .C738

The Communist Position on the Negro Question. New York: Workers Library Publishers, [1934].
E185.61 .C75 1934

Ellis, Ann Wells. Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1919-1934: Its Activities and Results. M.A. thesis, Georgia State University, 1975.
E185.61 .E480 1975b

Frith, James Aaron. The Manger of the Movement: Atlanta and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1890-1950. Ph. D. diss., Yale University, 1997.
F294 .A89 F75 1997a

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
HV6467 .H34

Interracial Front: Annual Report. Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1933.
E185.61 .I57 1933

McDonough, Julia Anne. Men and Women of Good Will: A History of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the Southern Regional Council, 1919-1954. Ph. D. diss., University of Virginia, 1993.
E185.5 .M32 1993a

Novotny, Patrick. This Georgia Rising: Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997.
F291 .N685 2007

OPPOSITION TO THE MOVEMENT

Flowers, J.J. The Red Menace: The Answer to America's Race Problem. Atlanta, 1956.
E185.61 .F5950 1956

Greene, R.W. Who Wants What: A Sane Approach to Racial Relations. Columbus: Public Relations Council, 1963.
E185.61 .G75 1963

Jenkins, Jessie W. Civil Rights or State Sovereignty? Columbus: National Patrick Henry Organization, 1950.
E185.61 .J455

Pittman, R. Carter. All Men Are Not Equal. Montgomery, 1956.
E185.61 .S317

Talmadge, Herman. You and Segregation. Birmingham, Vulcan Press, 1955.
E185.61 .T151y

Travis, Robert Jesse. Stop this Mockery of Justice; Consider Your Future; Act Before Its Too Late... [Savannah], 1958.
E185.61 .T782s

The Americus Story. Belmont, Mass.: America Opinion, 1966.
F294 .A5 A44 1966

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Contemporary Sources

The Albany Cases: Upside Down Justice. Albany: National Committee for the Albany Defendants, 1964.
E185.61 .A4350 1964

The Continuing Crisis: An Assessment of New Racial Tensions in the South. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1966.
E185.61 .S67 1966

Davis, Benjamin J. Must Negro-Americans Wait Another Hundred Years for Freedom? Against Tokenism and Gradualism. New York: New Century Publishers, 1963.
E185.61 .D284 1963

Davis, Benjamin J. Memorandum: Struggle for the Rights of the Negro People. National Negro Commission, 1948.
E185.61 .D32 1948

Longstreet, Edward. Down to Earth, 50 Prosettes (rhymed prose editorials, Martian style) by the Rhyming Martian, a cosmic astronaut whose Martian grandfather interviewed Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet one hundred years ago. Comprising 13 Original Prosettes on Civil Rights for Blacks and Whites, 1 to 13; 37 Prosettes on Civil Sense and Moral Recompense, 14 to 50 (one for each star in the American flag) plus an appendix for the District of Columbia, entitled Cosmic Death of a Nation. This Book is a Declaration of Independence for American Whites, an Answer to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lakemont: Georgia Free Press, 1964.
PS3523 .L856 D6

Mays, Benjamin E. The Christian in Race Relations. West Haven: Enduring Peace, 1952.
BR115 .R3 M32

McGill, Ralph. No Place to Hide: The South and Human Rights. v. 1-2. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1984.
E185.61 .M477 1984

Miller, Dorothy. Danville, Virginia. Atlanta: Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee, 1963.
E185.93 .V8 M5

Patterson, Barbara, et al. The Price We Pay [for Discrimination]. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1964.
E185.61 .S68 1964

Price, Margaret. Toward a Solution of the Sit-In Controversy. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1960.
E185.61 .P58 1960

Racial Discrimination in the Southern Federal Courts. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965.
JC599 .U5 S6

Smith, Lillian. Integration: What You Can Do About It. New York, 1964.
E185.61 .S654i

Southern Justice: An Indictment. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965.
K .S72

Talley, William. The Wayward Winds. 1963.
E185.61 .T240 1963

Zinn, Howard. Albany, A Study in National Responsibility. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962.
E185.61 .Z78a

POST CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ANALYSES

Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
E185.615 .B67 2006

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
E185.61 .B7914 1988

Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
E185.61 .B7915 1998

Cortner, Richard C. Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and the McClung Cases. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001.
KF228 .H43 C67 2001

Franklin. Comparison of Two Social Movements in Two Southern Cities, Montgomery, Alabama, and Albany, Georgia. M.A. thesis, Atlanta University, 1962.
E185.61 .F78

Grady-Willis, Winston A. Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977. Durham: Duke University, 2006.
F294 .A89 N4387 2006

Greene, Melissa Fay. Praying For Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction. London: Secker and Warburg, 1992.
HN79 .G42 M354 1992

Hanks, Lawrence Julius. Black Political Empowerment in the Black Belt South: The Quest for Black Political Power in Three Black Belt Georgia Counties. Ph. D. diss., Harvard University, 1984.
F292 .H3 H350 1985a

Harmon, David Andrew. Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, Georgia, 1946-1981. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.
F294 .A89 N443 1996

Jenkins, Mary Royal. Open Dem Cells: A Pictorial History of the Albany Movement. Columbus: Brentwood Academic Press, 2000.
F294 .A32 J36 2000

K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine. Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: Koinonia Farm. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1997.
BV4407.67 .K54 1997

Lefever, Harry G. Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005.
F294 .A89 N445 2005

Manis, Andrew M. Macon Black and White: An Unutterable Separation in the American Century. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004.
F294 .M2 M323

Manis, Andrew Michael. Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil Rights, 1947-1957. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1987.
E185.61 .M29 1987

McDonald, Laughlin. A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
KFG420.85 .S9 M39 2003

Mussat, David J. Journey for Justice: A Religious Analysis of the Ethics of the 1961 Albany Freedom Ride. Ph. D. diss., Temple University, 2001.
E185.61 .M29 1987

Pratt, Robert A. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
LD1986 .P73 2002

Trillin, Calvin. An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia. Athens: Brown Thrasher Books, 1991.
LD1986 .T75 1991

Tuck, Stephen G.N. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
F295 .N4 T83 2001

Watkins, John D. King's Last Visit to Augusta: He Was Persona Non Grata. Augusta: Manhattan Source Pub., 1974.
E185.97 .W4 H38 1974

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS

Abernathy, Ralph David. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. E185.97 .A13 A3 1989

Autobiographies of a Black Couple of the Greatest Generation: Norma L. Anderson, Moving Walkway; and William G. Anderson, The Making of a Felon. Lansing, MI, 2004.
F294 .A32 A53 2004

Brewster, Gurdon. No Turning Back: My Summer with Daddy King. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007.
F294 .A89 N425 2007

Daniels, Maurice Charles. Horace T. Ward: Desegregation of the University of Georgia, Civil Rights Advocacy, and Jurisprudence. Atlanta: Clark Atlanta University Press, 2001.
KF8745 .W2 D46 2001

Hollowell, Louise and Martin C. Lehfeldt. The Sacred Call: A Tribute to Donald Hollowell, Civil Rights Champion. Winter Park, FL: Four-G Pub., 1997.
KF299 .A35 H34 1997

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. In My Place. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
PN4874 .H83 A3 1992

Jordan, Vernon E. Vernon Can Read! A Memoir. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.
E185.97 .J78 A3

Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
E840.8 .L43 A3 1998

Lyon, Danny. Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
E185.615 .L96 1992

Mays, Benjamin E. Born to Rebel: An Autobiography. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
LC2851 .M72 M38 1987

Nasstrom, Kathryn L. Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool: Francine Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
HQ1438 .G4 N37 2000

Westbrooks-Griffin, Lulu. Freedom is Not Free: 45 Days in Leesburg Stockade. Hamlin, N.Y.: Heirloom Publishing, 1998.
E185.61 .W47

Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.
E840.8 .Y64 A3 1996

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

These are only a few of the relevant UGA theses and dissertations concerning the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia. Additional works can be found in GIL or with the help of Georgia Room staff. All UGA theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all works, cannot be checked out.

Brown, Stanford Maxwell. Equalization, Freedom of Choice, and Sex Segregation: School Segregation in Taylor and Baker Counties, Georgia. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .B8798

Cox, Thomas Browning. The Georgia Press Reacts to the Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1964. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1980.
LXC15 1980 .C878

Schrade, Alan Bradley. "Bad" Baker, "Terrible" Terrell, and Pritchett's Albany: SNCC and the Interplay Between Rural and Urban Civil Rights Movement in Southwest Georgia. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1995.
LXC15 1995 .S377

Williams, Herbert Pierce. The Desegregation of the University of Georgia: Why the Peace was Kept. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1993 .W723

LITERATURE/FICTION

Kay, Terry. Book of Marie. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007.
PS3561 .A885 B66

Silver, Andrew. Combustible/Burn: A Play. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002.
PS3619 .I545 C66 2002

Walker, Alice. Meridian. Several Editions.
PS3573 .A425 M4

JOURNALS

Phylon. 1940-1992. E185.5 .P578

SCLC Magazine. 1981-2006. E185.5 .S17

New South. 1946-1973. E185.5 .N532

Soul Force. Atlanta: SCLC. Folio E185.5 .S69

Georgia Historical Quarterly. 1917-current. F281 .G352

Journal of Southwestern Georgia History. 1983-1999. F286 .J8

Journal of South Georgia History. 1999-2004. F286 .J8

Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. 1927-2005. F294 .A8

Journal of Southern Legal History. 1994-2006. K7 .E654

 

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