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Bibliography on Civil Rights and WWII


Buchanan, A, Russell. Black Americans in World War II. Santa Barbara: Clio Books, 1977.

Chafe, William H. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001.

Dalfiume, Richard M. "The Forgotten Years of the Negro Revolution." In Journal of American History. Volume 55, 1968-1969: 90-106.

Daniel, Pete. Standing at the Crossroads:Southern Life Since 1900. New York: Hill and Wang, 1986.

Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Fairclough, Adam. "The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana 1939-1954." In The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, ed. Brian Ward and Tony Badger. London: MacMillan Press Ltd, 1996.

Goldfield, David R. Promised Land: The South Since 1945. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1987.

Harris, Mark Jonathan, Franklin D. Mitchell and Steven J. Schechter. The Home Front: America During World War II. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984.

Lawson, Steven F. Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976i.

_________ Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941, (New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997), 7.

Marx, Anthony W. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States and Brazil. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

McMillen, Neil R. "Fighting for What We Didn’t Have: How Mississippi’s Black Veterans

Remember World War II." In Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South, ed. Neil R. McMillen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Meier, August, and John H. Bracey, Jr. "The NAACP as a Reform Movement, 1909-1965." In Journal of Southern History. Volume 59, 1993: 3-30.

Meier, August, and Elliot Rudwick. From Plantation to Ghetto. New York: Hill and Wang, 1970.

_______________________ "The Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action in Afro-American Protest: A Note on Historical Discontinuities." In Along the Color Line: Exploraions in Black Protest, ed. August Meier and Elliot Rudwick. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976.

Nieman, Donald G. Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom's Daughters : The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York:cribner, 2001.

Perret, Geoffrey. Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People 1939-1945. New York: Coward, McGann and Geoghegan Inc, 1973.

Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.

Reed, Merl E. Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946. London: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.

Sitkoff, Harvard. "African American Militancy in the World War Two South: Another Perspective." In Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South, ed., Neil R. McMillen. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Winker, Allan M. Home Front U.S.A: America During World War II. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 2000.

Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War. London: Elek Books, 1976.

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