Articles
Copan, L. (2020). African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement. Christian Century, 137(26), 47. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=147209217&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Loder-Jackson, T. L. (2020). Schoolhouse activists: Disrupting Narratives About African American Educators’ Involvement in the Alabama Civil Rights Movement. Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue, 22(1/2), 17–35. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=145153795&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Nelson, J. (2001). The Civil Rights Movement: A Press Perspective. Human Rights, 28(4), 3. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=5744317&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Newkirk II, V. R. (2021). When America Became a Democracy. Atlantic, 327(2), 48–59. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=148607122&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Owens, D., & Wilson, w. L. (2013). Unsung heroines of the civil rights movement. Essence, 44(6), 126. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=90131786&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Schmidt, C. W. (2016). Legal History and the Problem of the Long Civil Rights Movement. Law & Social Inquiry, 41(4), 1081–1107.
https://doi-org.databases.pennhighlands.edu/10.1111/lsi.12245
Wagner, D. (2021). “We Have Come a Long Ways … We Have a Ways to Go.” Military Review, 101(4), 88–99. https://databases.pennhighlands.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=151077488&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Books
| Masur, K. (2021). Until justice be done: America’s first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction. New York, NY: W.W. Norton &. 323.1196 398 2021 |
| Gitlin, M. (2019). Black Lives Matter. New York, NY: Greenhaven Pub. 323.1196 323.1196 B6276 G536 2019 |
| Bell, J. D. (2018). Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: The New Press. 323.0922 4337 2018 |
| Levingston, S. (2017). Kennedy and King : The president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights. New York: Hachette Books. 973.922 I5788 2017 |
| Anderson, T. H. (2004). The pursuit of fairness : A history of affirmative action. Oxford;: Oxford University Press. 331.133 An245 2004 |
| Hedin, B. (2015). In search of the movement: The struggle for civil rights then and now. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 323.0973 H35588 2015 |
Links
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
The Library of Congress – The Civil Rights Movement And The Second Reconstruction, 1945—1968
Local Focus
This is an excerpt from the book, “Johnstown, Pennsylvania: A history, part 2 1837-1990 by Randy Whittle. Available in the College Library. A Restrained Militancy, Johnstown’s Post War Black Community
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