BOOKS FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Spring 2006

Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle. Clayborne Carson, et al., editors. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991 ISBN: 0140154035
        Price: $18.00

Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. Wallace Terry. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1985. ISBN: 0345311973
         Price: $6.99

Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. Joanne Grant. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN:  0-471-32717-4
       
Price: $16.95

Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South - An Oral History. Youth of the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center. Westview Press, 1991  ISBN:  0-8133-1123-3
       
Price: $20.00

Why We Can't Wait. Martin Luther King Jr. New York: Penguin, Signet Classics, 2000. ISBN:  0-451-52753-4
       
Price: $6.95

The Heart of a Woman. Maya Angelou. New York: Bantam Books, 1982 ISBN:  055324689
Price: $5.99

Recommended:
This brand new book from www.civilrightsteaching.org, although designed for K-12 teachers, is an invaluable resource on the Movement, particularly because it integrates the coexisting struggles of Chicanos, Asians, and American Indians.   

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for Classrooms and Communities. Deborah Menkart, Jenice   View, Alana D. Murray. Teaching for Change, 2004. ISBN:  1878554182
Price: $24.95
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