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The best collections of interviews are Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested

(1977), Clayborne Carson et al., Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader

(1991), Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, Voices of Freedom(1990), and

Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, The Price of Dissent(2001).

The most useful periodicals are Freedomways, Race Relations Law

Reporter, and The Civil Rights Digest. See also these black newspapers for

insights into race relations and the movement: Amsterdam News, Arkansas

State Press, Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Birmingham

World, Chicago Defender, Louisville Defender, Norfolk Journal & Guide,

and Pittsburgh Courier. Reporting Civil Rights(2003) is a splendid collec-

tion of journalistic accounts of the movement.

Harry Ashmore, Civil Rights and Wrongs(1994), Pat Watters, Down to

Now(1971) and Pat Watters and Reese Cleghorn, Climbing Jacob’s Ladder

(1967), Fred Powledge, Free at Last?(1991), and Michael Dorman, We

Shall Overcome(1964), provide accounts by white journalists of changing

race relations in the South. Carl Rowan’s Go South to Sorrow(1957) is a

black reporter’s assessment of race relations.

Martin Luther King, Jr., the movement’s chief spokesman, is the subject of

several competent biographies, including David Levering Lewis, King

(1970), Stephen Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound(1982), and Marshall Frady,

Martin Luther King, Jr.(2002). Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There

With You(2000), recovers King in his radical guise. Clayborne Carson has

edited a synthetic Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.(1998). A

careful delineation of Martin Luther King’s theological debts is presented in

Keith Miller, Voice of Deliverance(1992). Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream

(1998), confirms that James Earl Ray gunned down Martin Luther King.

King’s closest associates – Ralph Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling

Down(1989), Andrew Young, An Easy Burden(1996), Coretta Scott King,

My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.(1969), and John Lewis, Walking with

the Wind(1998) – have written memoirs of the movement.

Perceptive state and local studies that examine race relations and reform

include Robert Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind(1985), J. Mills Thornton,

Divided Lines(2002), David Colburn, Racial Change and Community

Crisis(1985), Ronald Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century

Atlanta (1996), Adam Fairclough, Race and Democracy (1995), Jack

Davis, Race Against Time (2001), and Stephen Tuck, Beyond Atlanta

(2001). Elizabeth Jacoway and David Colburn, Southern Businessmen and

Desegregation (1982), examine how fourteen southern cities accepted

desegregation.

Milton Viorst, Fire in the Streets(1960), profiles key movement activists.

David Chappell, Inside Agitators(1994), and Morton Sosna, In Search of

the Silent South(1977), study a forgotten minority – white southerners who

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