{"id":1309,"date":"2026-02-11T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/?page_id=1309"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:32:45","slug":"bibiliography-of-civil-rights-era-and-desegregation-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/librariesmap\/local-history-genealogy-department\/local-history-genealogy-department-resource-guide\/bibiliography-of-civil-rights-era-and-desegregation-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibiliography of Civil Rights Era and Desegregation Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrews, Kenneth T.\u00a0\u00a0Freedom Is A Constant Struggle:\u00a0 The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.<\/i>\u00a0 Chicago:\u00a0 University of Chicago Press, 2004.<\/p>\n

Bolton, Charles C.\u00a0 The Hardest Deal of All:\u00a0The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980.<\/i>\u00a0 Jackson, MS:\u00a0 University Press of Mississippi, 2005.<\/p>\n

Crespino, Joseph.\u00a0\u00a0The Search of Another Country:\u00a0 Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.<\/i>\u00a0 Princeton, NJ:\u00a0 Princeton University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Doyle, William.\u00a0\u00a0An American Insurrection:\u00a0 The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962<\/i>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Doubleday, 2001.<\/p>\n

Etheridge, Eric.\u00a0\u00a0Breach of Peace:\u00a0 Portraits ofthe 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders<\/i>.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Atlas & Co., 2008.<\/p>\n

Fireside, Harvey.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cMississippi Burning\u201d Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial:\u00a0 A Headline Court Case.<\/i>\u00a0 Berkeley Heights, NJ:\u00a0 Enslow Publishers, 2002.<\/p>\n

Houck, Davis W.\u00a0\u00a0Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press.<\/i>\u00a0 Jackson:\u00a0 University Press of Mississippi, 2008.<\/p>\n

Klopfer, Susan.\u00a0\u00a0The Emmett Till Book.<\/i>\u00a0 Mount Pleasant, IA:\u00a0 Susan Klopfer, 2005.<\/p>\n

Klopfer, Susan.\u00a0\u00a0Where Rebels Roost:\u00a0 Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited.<\/i>\u00a0 Morrisville, NC:\u00a0 Lulu.com, 2006.<\/p>\n

Mason, Gilbert R., M.D. with James Patterson Smith.\u00a0\u00a0Beaches, Blood, and Ballots:\u00a0 A Black Doctor\u2019s Civil Rights Struggle<\/i>.\u00a0 Jackson,MS:\u00a0 University of Mississippi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Newspaper Articles<\/strong>
Gulfport-Biloxi\u00a0<\/span>Daily Herald<\/i>:<\/span>
\u2013 \u201cRacial Violence Erupts At Biloxi, Score Or More Hurt, Wounded,\u201d25 April 1960<\/span>
\u2013 \u201c71 Are Arrested In Biloxi Wade-In,\u201d 24 June 1963<\/span>
\u2013 \u201cReverse Dismissal of 3 School Cases,\u201d 14 February 1964<\/span>
\u2013 \u201cIntegrate Peacefully At Biloxi,\u201d 2 September 1965<\/span>
\u2013 \u201cSuit Seeks Redistrict In Hancock,\u201d 2 September 1965<\/span>
\u2013 \u201c60 Negroes Registered In Gulfport,\u201d 3 September 1965<\/span><\/p>\n

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Books Andrews, Kenneth T.\u00a0\u00a0Freedom Is A Constant Struggle:\u00a0 The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy.\u00a0 Chicago:\u00a0 University of Chicago Press, 2004. Bolton, Charles C.\u00a0 The Hardest Deal of All:\u00a0The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980.\u00a0 Jackson, MS:\u00a0 University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Crespino, Joseph.\u00a0\u00a0The Search of Another Country:\u00a0 Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1295,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions\/2352"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrisontest.lib.ms.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}