Reading

Virginia Durr, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (University of Alabama Press, 1985). Available through our library as a free ebook. Click here.

Resources

Interview with Clifford Durr, December 29, 1974. Interview B-0017.

Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-2.

Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, October 16, 1975. Interview G-0023-3.

Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, February 6, 1991. Interview A-0337.

Transcript of Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, October 17, 1967.

Documentary Film: Eyes on the Prize, Awakenings

Virginia Foster Durr Obituary

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Southern Conference for Human Welfare Papers, Robert W. Woodruff Library Atlanta University Center

National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax Papers, Tuskegee Archives

Highlander Folk School, Tennessee

Additional Books

Krueger, Thomas A. And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938–1948. 1967.

Reed, Linda. Simple Decency & Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1939–1963. 1991.

Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. 1996.

Sullivan, Patricia. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. 2006.

Reading

Clive Webb, ed., Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Resources

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)

James J. Kilpatrick and Interposition

The Southern Manifesto

Mansfield, Texas, School Desegregation Incident

Executive Order on the Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School

The Brown Decision in Norfolk Virginia

Television News of the Civil Rights Era

Reading

Anders Walker, The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Resources

Reading

Catherine Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Resources

Anne Braden Documentary Film

Reading

Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

Resources

PBS Website: George Wallace, Settin' the Woods on Fire

Film Part I: George Wallace, Settin' the Woods on Fire

Film Part II: George Wallace, Settin' the Woods on Fire

Reading

Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story (Three Rivers Press, 2005).

Resources

Blood Done Sign My Name: Image Entertainment