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Black History Month
Black History Month is held in February in the United States to promote the knowledge of black history and experience, and to disseminate information on positive contributions of African-Americans to the fabric of the society.
Accompanying the exhibit on the first floor of McCain Library is a bibliography consisting of books, journal articles and other information resources, highlighting the considerable contributions of African American women to the civil rights movement in America and their giant strides towards equality. The bibliography also features the life and works of Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 - Jan. 30, 2006) Human Rights Advocate and wife of the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selected Books
Allen, Zita. Black women leaders of the civil rights movement, Danbury, Conn.: Franklin Watts, 1996. Available at DeKalb County Public Library or through Interlibrary Loan.
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks, New York: Viking, 2000. F334.M753 P373 DISPLAY-LIB
Brown, Elaine. A taste of power: a black woman's story, New York: Anchor Books, 1994. E185.97.B866 A3 DISPLAY-LIB
Carson, Josephine. Silent voices [electronic resource]: an intimate study of southern black women during the civil rights struggle, [S.l.]: E-reads, 2002 E185.61 .C3 2002eb
Carson, Josephine. Silent voices: the Southern Negro woman today, [New York] Delacorte Press [1969]. E185.86 .C3 DISPLAY-LIB
Cash, Floris Loretta Barnett. African American women and social action : the clubwomen and volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. E185.86 .C33 DISPLAY-LIB
Cole, Johnnetta B. Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Gender talk: the struggle for women's equality in African American communities, New York : Ballantine Books, 2003. E185.86 .C58154 DISPLAY-LIB
Collier-Thomas, Bettye and Franklin, V. P. Sisters in the struggle: African American women in the civil rights-Black Power movement, New York: New York University Press, c2001. E185.61 .S615 DISPLAY-LIB
Collins, Patricia Hill. Fighting words: Black women and the search for justice, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1998. E185.86 .C5817 DISPLAY-LIB
Crawford, Vicki L., Rouse, Jacqueline Anne and Woods, Barbara. Women in the civil rights movement: trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965,
Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990. Ref. E185.86 .B543 v.16 DISPLAY-LIBEvans, Sara M. Personal politics: the roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left, New York: Vintage Books, 1980, c1979. HQ1426 .E9 DISPLAY-LIB
Giddings, Paula. When and where I enter: the impact of Black women on race and sex in America, Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988, c1984. E185.86 .G49 DISPLAY-LIB
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1996. E185.93.N6 G55 DISPLAY-LIB
Higginbotham, Elizabeth. Too much to ask: Black women in the era of integration, Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.
LC2781 .H545 DISPLAY-LIBHine, Darlene Clark. Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1993 Ref. E185.86 .B542 1993 v.1-2
Hine, Darlene Clark. Black women's history: theory and practice, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990. Ref. E185.86 .B543 v. 9-10
Jones, Beverly Washington. Quest for equality: the life and writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 1863-1954, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990 E185.86 .B543 1990 v.13 DISPLAY-LIB
King, Coretta Scott. My life with Martin Luther King, Jr., New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1969] E185.97.K5 K5
King, Martin Luther, Jr. & King, Coretta Scott. The Martin Luther King, Jr., companion: quotations from the speeches, essays, and books of Martin Luther King, Jr., New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993. Available at DeKalb County Public Library or through Interlibrary Loan.
Morgan, Francesca. Women and patriotism in Jim Crow America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2005. E185.86 .M585
Olson, Lynne. Freedom's daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970, New York: Scribner, 2001. Available at DeKalb County Public Library or through Interlibrary Loan
Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement: a radical democratic vision, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2003. E185.97.B214 R36 DISPLAY-LIB
Richardson, Marilyn. Maria W. Stewart, America's first Black woman political writer: essays and speeches, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987. E185.97.S84 A2 DISPLAY-LIB
Robnett, Belinda, How long? How long?: African-American women in the struggle for civil rights, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
E185.61 .R685 DISPLAY-LIBSims-Wood, Janet L. The progress of Afro-American women : a selected bibliography and resource guide, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980. E185.86 .S52
Springer, Kimberly. Still lifting, still climbing: contemporary African American women's activism, New York: New York University Press, 1999. Available through Interlibrary Loan.
Sterling, Dorothy. Black foremothers: three lives, New York: Feminist Press, c1988 E185.96 .S75 DISPLAY-LIB
Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising her voice: African-American women journalists who changed history, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Available at DeKalb County Public Library or through Interlibrary Loan.
Swift, Jeannine, Dream and reality: the modern Black struggle for freedom and equality, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Available through Interlibrary Loan.
Thoughts and reflections by Coretta Scott King in We shall overcome:
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black freedom struggle by Peter J Albert; Ronald Hoffman (editors) New York: Pantheon Books in cooperation with the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1990. Available at DeKalb County Public Library or through Interlibrary Loan.Walker, Alice. In search of our mothers' gardens: womanist prose, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983. PS3573.A425 Z467 DISPLAY-LIB
Walker, Melissa. Down from the mountaintop: Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989, New Haven: Yale University Press, c1991. PS374.N4 W35 DISPLAY-LIB
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for justice: the autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972 E185.97.B26 A3 DISPLAY-LIB
The words of Martin Luther King, Jr./ selected by Coretta Scott King
Newmarket Press, c1987. E185.97.K5 A25 DISPLAY-LIB
Selected Articles
Atwater, Deborah F. The voices of African American women in the civil rights movement. Journal of Black Studies, 1996 26(5)
Baxandall, Rosalyn. Re-visioning the women's liberation movement's narrative: early second wave African American feminists. Feminist Studies, 2001 27(1)
Bergman, Brian. Breaking barriers. Maclean's, 08/03/98, 111 (31)
Browne, J. Zamgba. Coretta Scott King finds closure in verdict; continues to fight for MLK's dream. New York Amsterdam News, 04/13/2000, 91 (15)
Cash, Floris Barnett. Kinship and quilting: an examination of an African American tradition. Journal of Negro History, 1995 80(1)
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. Black women historians from the late 19th century to the dawning of the civil rights movement, Journal of African American History, Summer2004, 89 (3)
Eddings, Jerelyn. Coretta King's lonely days. U.S. News & World Report, 1/16/95, 118 (2)
Gyant, LaVerne. Passing the torch: African American women in the civil rights movement. Journal of Black Studies, 1996 26(5)
Hendrickson, Roberta M. Remembering the dream: Alice Walker, Meridian and the civil rights movement. MELUS, Fall99, 24 (3)
Hyman, Colette A. The civil rights movement, from the outside and the inside. Journal of Women's History, Bloomington: Autumn 2002. 14 (3)
King, Coretta Scott. From Marion, Ala., to the mountaintop of the dream. Ebony, Nov95, 51 (1)
Ling, Peter J. A question of leadership. Reviews in American History, 1999 27(2)
Mabry, M. Keeping the dream alive. Black Collegian, Jan/Feb91, 21 (3)
Miller, Samantha & Jones, Rochelle. Unsung heroine. People, 10/19/98, 50 (14)
Nasstrom, Kathryn L. Down to now: memory, narrative, and women's leadership in the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia. Gender & History, Apr99, 11 (1)
Nance, Teresa A. Hearing the missing voice. Journal of Black Studies, May96, 26 (5)
Patton, June O. African American women, civil rights and Black power. Journal of African American History, 2004 89(3)
Robnett, Belinda. African-American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: gender, leadership, and micromobilization. American Journal of Sociology, May96, 101 (6)
Wermiel, Stephen J. & Stein, Robert E. Human rights hero. Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, Summer2004, 31 (3)
Videos
A place of rage [videorecording] / Channel Four Television
New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 1991. (on reserve for WS100)Moir, Anne. People's century, 1900-1999. 1970, half the people [videorecording] / a coproduction of WGBH Boston and BBC ; written, produced, and directed by Anne Moir ; executive producer, Zvi Dor-Ner Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, c1999. Video Tape 1043
Websites
Black History Month- a collection of features, biographies, reference links, civil rights timeline, quizzes and puzzles http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
Coretta Scott King http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/details/270427b.htm
Coretta Scott King-Fact sheet and biographical site from Women's History Month site http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/king_c_s.htm
CNN - Black History Month: a legacy of black talent http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/black_history/29days.html
The History Channel: Black History Month http://www.historychannel.com/blackhistory/