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Paul Robeson leads Oakland shipyard workers in the singing of the National Anthem

Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Lewis
James Dombrowski
Ella Baker
Louis Armstrong
Malcolm X
BOOKS
Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New Press, 2009
Harvard Sitkoff, King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop. Hill and Wang, 2009.
Jeff Woods, Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968. LSU, 2004.
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Harvard, 1995.
David Chappell, Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement. Johns Hopkins, 1996.
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, 2011.
Penny M. Von Eschen, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Harvard, 2006.
Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. Holt, 2007.
A political cartoon (color added) from the January 1956 edition of The Virginian, a right-wing, anti-integration, anti-communist publication in Virginia.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn | History Department | College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sam Houston State University