BIBLIOGRAPHY
Eyes on the Prize Publications
Cohen, Steve, ed. Eyes on the Prize: A Sourcebook. Boston: Blackside, Inc., 1987. An anthology of
readings for secondary school students. Available through CRPI, 486 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, MA 02118.
Hampton, Henry, and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil
Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Based on the
archive of the entire Eyes on the Prize television series.
Harding, Vincent. Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement. Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 1990.
Williams, Juan, and the Eyes on the Prize Production Team. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights
Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking, 1987. Companion volume to part one of the Eyes on the Prize
television series.
Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New York: Vintage
Books, 1967.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1984.
Grant, Joanne. Black Protest: History, Documents and Analysis, 1619 to the Present. New York: Saint
Martin's Press, 1970.
Harding, Vincent. The Other American Revolution. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American
Studies, 1980.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited
by James M. Washington. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.
Morris, Aldon. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change.
New York: The Free Press, 1984.
Whitfield, Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. New York: Free Press, 1988.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir
of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Freyer, Tony. The Little Rock Crisis: A Constitutional Interpretation. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 1984.
Huckaby, Elizabeth. Crisis at Central High: Little Rock, 1957-58. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1980.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's
Struggle for Equality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.
Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1986.
Gentile, Thomas. March on Washington: August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.: New Day Publications,
1983.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can't Wait. New York: Harper and
Row, 1963.
Oates, Stephen B. Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper and
Row, 1982.
Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and
the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
Evers, Myrlie, with William Peters. For Us, the Living. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
King, Mary. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New York: William
Morrow, 1987.
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial Press, 1968.
Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From ÒSoloÓ to Memphis. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1981.
Garrow, David J. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1978.
Harding, Vincent. There Is a River. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Lerna, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage Books,
1972.
Webb, Sheyann, and Rachel West Nelson with Frank Sikora. Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories
of the Civil Rights Days. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and
Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Huie, William Bradford. Wolfwhistle. New York: New American
Library, 1959.
Garrow, David J., ed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson, 1989.
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir. New York: David McKay, 1962.
Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Watters, Pat. Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement. New York: Pantheon, 1971.
On Birmingham and the March on Washington
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1988.
Bailey, Ronald. Remembering Medgar Evers...For a New Generation. Oxford, Mississippi: Heritage
Publications, 1988.
Fager, Charles E. Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1974.