Suggested Reading - The Civil Rights Movement In Birmingham

Barr, Terry, "Rabbi Grafman and Birmingham's Civil Rights Era. The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Bass, S. Jonathan, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Bass, S. Jonathan, "Bishop C.C.J. Carpenter: From Segregation to Integration." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July 1992).

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVI, No. 3 (August 1990)

Branch, Taylor, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXV, No. 3 (August 1999)

Corley, Robert G., "The Quest for Racial Harmony: Race Relations in Birmingham, Alabama, 1947-1963." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1979.

Corley, Robert G., "In Search of Racial Harmony: Birmingham Business Leaders and Desegration," in Jacoway, Elizabeth and David S. Colburn (eds), Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Davis, Townsend, Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Durr, Virginia Foster, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1985.

           Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October 1986) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LII, No. 4 (November 1986)

Eagles, Charles W., "Toward New Histories of the Civil Rights Era." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXVI, No. 4 (November 2000).

Eskew, Glenn T., But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July 1999) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXV, No. 2 (May 1999)

Eskew, Glenn T., "The Freedom Ride Riot and Political Reform in Birmingham, 1961-1963." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 3 (July 1996).

Fallin, Wilson, The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.

Feldman, Glenn, From Demagogue to Dixiecrat: Horace Wilkerson and the Politics of Race. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1995.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 1997) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 4 (November 1996)

Feldman, Glenn, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXVII, No. 3 (August 2001)

Garrow, David J., Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.
Reviewed: The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVII, No. 3 (August 1991)

Garrow, David J., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April 1988) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIV, No. 1 (February 1988)

Gutwillig, Robert, "Six Days in Alabama." Mademoiselle, September 1963.

Ingalls, Robert P., "Antiradical Violence in Birmingham During the 1930s." The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XLVII, No. 4 (November 1981).

Manis, Andrew M., A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 54, No. 4  (October 2001)

McWhorter, Diane, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climatic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Maxwell, Louise Passey, "Remaking Jim Crow: Segregation and Urban Change in Birmingham, Alabama, 1938-1963." Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1999.

Morgan, Charles, A Time to Speak. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Norrell, Robert J., "Alabama and the Supreme Court: Landmark Cases." Alabama Heritage, No. 9 (Summer 1988).

Norrell, Robert J., "Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama." The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3 (December 1986).

Nunnelley, William A., Bull Connor. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July 1992) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LVIII, No. 4 (November 1992)

Painter, Nell Irvin, "Hosea Hudson and the Progressive Party in Birmingham," in Black, Merle and John Shelton Reed (eds), Perspectives on the American South, Volume 1. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981.

Raines, Howell, My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (July 1979)

Richards, Johnetta Gladys, "The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A History." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1987.

Scribner, Christopher MacGregor, "The Quiet Revolution: Federal Funding and Social Change in Birmingham, Alabama, 1933-1965." Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1996.

Scribner, Christopher MacGregor, "Federal Funding, Urban Renewal, and Race Relations: Birmingham in Transition, 1945-1955." The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4 (October 1995).

Sikora, Frank, Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April 1993)

Smith, Petric J., Long Time Coming: An Insider’s Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing that Rocked the World. Birmingham: Crane Hill Publishers, 1994.

Snell, William Robert, "The Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson County, Alabama, 1916-1930." M.A. Thesis, Samford University, 1967.

Starr, J. Barton, "Birmingham and the ‘Dixiecrat’ Convention of 1948." Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2 (Spring and Summer 1970).

White, John, "Civil Rights in Conflict: The ‘Birmingham Plan’ and the Freedom Train, 1947." The Alabama Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (April 1999).

White, Marjorie L. and Andrew M. Manis (eds), Birmingham Revolutionaries: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2000.

Wilson, Bobby M., America's Johannesburg: Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 2002)

Wilson, Bobby M., Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 2002)