See also
edit- Victoria Gray Adams
- Maya Angelou
- Joan Baez
- Ella Baker
- Daisy Bates
- Fay Bellamy Powell
- Unita Blackwell
- Amelia Boynton
- Anne Braden
- Mary Fair Burks
- Septima Clark
- Claudette Colvin
- Annie Lee Cooper
- Dorothy Cotton
- Ruby Dee
- Doris Derby
- Annie Devine
- Virginia Durr
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Sarah Mae Flemming
- Marie Foster
- Frankie Muse Freeman
- Prathia Hall
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Anna Arnold Hedgeman
- Dorothy Height
- Lola Hendricks
- Zilphia Horton
- Genevieve Hughes
- Mahalia Jackson
- Esau Jenkins
- Gloria Johnson-Powell
- Coretta Scott King
- Viola Liuzzo
- Autherine Lucy
- Clara Luper
- Anne Moody
- Constance Baker Motley
- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
- Diane Nash
- Denise Nicholas
- Nichelle Nichols
- Odetta
- Nan Grogan Orrock
- Rosa Parks
- Fay Bellamy Powell
- Gloria Richardson
- Amelia Boynton Robinson
- Jo Ann Robinson
- Carol Ruth Silver
- Helen Singleton
- Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
- Modjeska Monteith Simkins
- Nina Simone
- Helen Singleton
Further reading
editWomen
edit- Brooks, Pamela E. (2008). Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781558496781.
- Castledine, Jacqueline L. (2012). Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252094439.
- Collier-Thomas, Bettye; Franklin, V.P., eds. (2001). Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press.
- Crawford, Vicki L., ed. (1993). Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
- Evans, Sara Margaret (1979). Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780394742281.
- Dossett, Kate (2008). Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813031408.
- Feldstein, Ruth (2013). How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195314038.
- Glasrud, Bruce A.; Pitre, Merline (2013). Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 9781603449991.
- Gore, Dayo F.; Theoharis, Jeanne; Woodard, Komozi (2009). Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814732304.
- Holsaert, Faith S. (2010). Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252035579.
- Houck, Davis W.; Dixon, David E., eds. (2009). Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604731071.
- Ling, Peter J.; Monteith, Sharon, eds. (2014). Gender in the Civil Rights Movement. Routledge. ISBN 9781135669133.
- McGuire, Danielle L. (2010). At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780307269065.
- Mayeri, Serena (2011). Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674061101.
- Moon, Danelle (2011). Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780313380990.
- Murray, Gail Schmunk, ed. (2004). Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813027265.
- Olson, Lynne (2001). Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684850122.
- Robnett, Belinda (1997). How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781280454134.
- Rogers, Kim Lacy (Summer 2002). "Life Questions: Memories of Women Civil Rights Leaders" (PDF). The Journal of African American History. 87: 355–368. doi:10.2307/1562483.
- Ross, Rosetta E. (2003). Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Mminneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 9781451417869.
- Schultz, Debra L. (2001). Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814797754.
Men
edit- Estes, Steve (2005). I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807855935.
- Ling, Peter J.; Monteith, Sharon, eds. (2014). Gender in the Civil Rights Movement. Routledge. ISBN 9781135669133.