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Sit-ins

The Greensboro demonstration that set off the movement’s sit-in phase is

covered by Miles Wolff, Lunch at the 5 & 10(1970), and William Chafe,

Civilities and Civil Rights(1980). David Halberstam, The Children(1998),

has written a sympathetic account of the Nashville students he covered as a

reporter.

Freedom Ride

In Lay Bare the Heart(1985), James Farmer writes movingly about the

Freedom Ride he organized. James Peck, Freedom Ride(1962), is a memoir

of a white rider. Dorothy Kaufman, The First Freedom Ride (1989),

describes the brutality suffered by Walter Bergman. Attorney William

Kunstler, Deep in My Heart(1966), relates his defense of the riders, the first

of many such courtroom battles.

Battle of Ole Miss

James Meredith, Three Years in Mississippi(1966), tells of his daunting

quest to desegregate the University of Mississippi. Two university professors

recount the trouble over Meredith’s admission: James Silver, Mississippi: The

Closed Society(1964), and Russell Barrett, Integration at Ole Miss(1965).

Erle Johnston, I Rolled with Ross(1980), defends the governor who blocked

Meredith. Constance Baker Motley, Equal Justice Under Law(1998), reveals

the career of an NAACP attorney and the first black woman appointed to

the federal bench. William Doyle, An American Insurrection(2001), is a

sprightly narrative of the bloodshed at Ole Miss. Nadine Cohodas, The Band

Played Dixie(1997), places the traumatic event within the long-range his-

tory of the university. Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi(2003), looks at

how racism infected Mississippi lawmen and their progeny.

Albany

There is no book-length treatment of the Albany Movement, though this

episode is treated in several surveys, including Howard Zinn, The Southern

Mystique(1964).

Bombingham

William Nunnelley,Bull Connor(1991), and Andrew Manis,A Fire You Can’t

Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttleworth

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