Civil Rights-Black Power Studies

The African American West in 20th and 21st Century History and Culture

Arizona

• John Crow, Discrimination, Poverty and the Negro: Arizona in the National Context (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1968)

• Matthew Whitaker, Race Work: The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Urban West (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

California

• Robert L. Allen, The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1989)

• E. Frederick Anderson, The Development of Leadership and Organization Building in the Black Community of Los Angeles from 1900 through World War II (Saratoga, CA: Century Twenty One Publishing, 1980)

• Bettina Aptheker, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990)

• William Barlow and Peter Shapiro, An End to Silence: The San Francisco State College Student Movement in the 1960s (New York: Pegasus, 1971)

• Robert Bauman, Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

• Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

• Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013)

• Scot Brown, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization and Black Cultural Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2003)

• John Caughey and Laree Caughey, School Segregation on Our Doorstep: The Los Angeles Story (Los Angeles: Quail Books, 1966)

• Jerry Cohen and William S. Murphy, Burn, Baby, Burn: The Los Angeles Race Riot, August, 1965 (New York: Dutton, 1966)

• Robert Conot, Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness (New York: Bantam Books, 1967)

• Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1990)

•  David Colvin, Black Politics after the Civil Rights Movement: Activity and Beliefs in Sacramento, 1970-2000 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009)

• Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994)

• Lawrence P. Crouchett, William Byron Rumford: A Biography, The Life and Public Services of a California Legislator (El Cerrito, CA: Downey Place Pub. House, 1984)

• Christopher Darden and Jess Walter, In Contempt (New York: ReganBooks, 1996)

• Angela Y. Davis, Angela Davis: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1988)

• The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and David Hilliard (eds.), The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2008)

• Richard M. Elman, Ill-at-Ease in Compton (New York: Pantheon Books, 1967)

• Delores Fine, When Leadership Fails: Desegregation and Demoralization in the San Francisco Schools (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986)

• Philip S. Foner, The Black Panthers Speak (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1995)

• Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, Shadow and Light: An Autobiography (Little Rock, AR/Washington, DC: Self-published, 1902)

• Dikran Karagueuzian, Blow It Up! The Black Student Revolt at San Francisco State and the Emergence of Dr. Hayakawa (Boston: Gambit, 1971)

• Ron Karenga, Ron Karenga: Victim of Watergating (Los Angeles: Pacifica Tape Library, 1978)

• David Hilliard (ed.), The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service, 1967-1980 (New York: Atria, 2007)

• David Hilliard and Lewis Cole, This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993)

• Gerald Horne, The Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995)

• George Jackson, Blood in My Eye (New York: Random House, 1996)

• George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994)

• Charles E. Jones (ed.), The Black Panther Party: Reconsidered (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998)

• Tobie Levingston, Keith Zimmerman, and Kent Zimmerman, Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and the Black Biker Set (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2013)

• Paul T. Miller, The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights: African Americans in San Francisco, 1945-1975 (New York: Routledge, 2010)

• Donna Jean Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

• Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

• Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)

• Huey P. Newton, War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America (New York: Harlem River Press, 2000)

• Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

• James Richardson, Willie Brown: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996)

• Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage (New York: Times Books, 1977)

• Bobby Seale, Seize the Time (New York: Random House, 1968)

• Raphael J. Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1992)

• Emory J. Tolbert, The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1980)

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Hawai’i

•  Bobette Gugliotta, Nolle Smith: Cowboy, Engineer, Statesman (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971)

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Kansas

• Gretchen Cassel Eick, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001)

• Rusty L. Monhollon, This Is America?: The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas (New York: Palgrave, 2002)

Nevada

• Earnest N. Bracey, The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas: A History of the First Racially Integrated Hotel-Casino (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009)

•  Jamie Coughtry (ed.), Woodrow Wilson: Race, Community, and Politics in Las Vegas, 1940s-1980s (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1990)

• Jamie Coughtry and Helen M. Blue (eds.), Clarence Ray: Black Politics and Gaming in Las Vegas, 1920s-1980s (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1991)

• Jamie Coughtry and R.T. King (eds.), Civil Rights Efforts in Las Vegas: 1940s-1980s (University of Nevada Las Vegas, 1988)

•  Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005)

New Mexico

• Tekla Ali Johnson, Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2012)

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Oklahoma

• Jonathan D. Greenberg, Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr., and the Making of An African American Oil Dynasty (New York: Atheneum, 1990)

• George Henderson, Race and the University: A Memoir (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010),

• Clara Luper, Behold the Walls (Oklahoma City, OK: Jim Wire, 1979)

• Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley, A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

Oregon

• Associated Students, University of Oregon, Which Side Are You On? The Black Panthers in Eugene (Eugene, OR: ASUO/Eugene Black Panther Party, 1969)

• Avel Louise Gordly, Remembering the Power of Words: The Life on an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2011)

• Kimberley Mangun, A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2010)

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Texas

• Gregg Andrews, Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011)

• J. Alston Atkins, The Texas Negro and His Political Rights: A History of the Fight of the Negro to Enter the Democratic Primaries of Texas (Houston: Webster Pub. Co., 1932)

• Brian D. Behnken, Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

• Ira Bryant, Texas Southern University: Its Antecedents, Political Origin and Future (Houston: Bryant, 1972)

• Conrey Bryson, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and the White Primary (El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1974)

• Thomas R. Cole, No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997)

• Marvin Dulavey, Black Presence in Dallas: A History of Black Political Activism in Dallas from 1936-1986 (Dallas: Museum of African-American Life and Culture, 1987)

• Jacob Fontaine III and Gene Burd, Jacob Fontaine: From Slavery to the Greatness of the Pulpit, the Press and Public Service (Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1983)

• William Henry Kellar, Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives and School Desegregation in Houston (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999)

• Robyn Duff Ladino, Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996)

• Gary M. Lavergne, Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010)

• Merline Pitre, In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957 (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1999)

• Jim Schutze, The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1986)

• Amilcar Shabazz, Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

• Anna Victoria Wilson and William E. Segall, Oh, Do I Remember!: Experiences of Teachers During the Desegregation of Austin's Schools, 1964-1971 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001)

• George Ruble Woolfolk, Prairie View: A Study in Public Conscience, 1878-1946 (New York: Pageant Press, 1962)

Washington

• Ed Diaz (ed.), Horace Roscoe Cayton: Selected Writings (Seattle: Bridgewater-Collins, 2003)

• Aaron Dixon, My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012)

• Frank Hanawalt and Robert L. Williams, The History of Desegregation in Seattle Public Schools, 1954-1981 (Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, 1981)

• Paul Karlstrom, The Spirit in the Stone: The Visionary Art of James W. Washington, Jr. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989)

• Samuel E. Kelly and Quintard Taylor, Dr. Sam, Soldier, Educator, Advocate, Friend: An Autobiography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010)

• Jim Kershner, Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009)

•  Wilson Edward Reed, The Politics of Community Policing: The Case of Seattle (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999)

• Anne LaGrelius Siqueland, Without a Court Order: The Desegregation of Seattle Schools (Seattle: Madrona, 1981)

• Turkiya L. Lowe, The History of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Links Incorporated, 1955-2005 (Redmond, WA: Greater Seattle Chapter of the Links, Inc., 2005)

• Dwayne Mack, Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

• Joan Singler, Jean Durning, Bettylou Valentine, Maid Adams (eds.), Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011)

• Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family (New York: Atria Books, 2004)

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