NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965

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Bibliography Primary Sources Archival Sources Auburn, Alabama Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University Papers of the NAACP (microfilm) Atlanta, Georgia Special Collections, Emory University Papers of the NAACP (microfilm) Nashville, Tennessee Nashville Room, Nashville Public Library Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality (microfilm) Papers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (microfilm) Papers of the Southern Council on Human Relations (microfilm) New York, New York Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Montgomery Branch NAACP (Youth Council) Minutes, 1954–1955 Catherine Clarke Collection (Freedom Summer/COFO) Newspapers/Periodicals Consulted Note: These black newspapers and periodicals were chosen mainly because they have information on the activities of the NAACP youth councils and college chapters, particularly The Crisis, the official organ of the NAACP. Information found in these newspapers and periodicals on the NAACP youth councils, spanning the years 1936– 1965, were examined. Atlanta Daily World Baltimore Afro-American California Eagle Chicago Defender The Crisis Freedom Ways Harlem Liberator Journal of Negro History Los Angeles Sentinel Bibliography 194 Norfolk Journal and Guide Opportunity Phylon Pittsburgh Courier Tennessean The Movement Nashville Banner Washington Afro-American Oral Histories Note: I was fortunate to have met Johnnie Carr and Doris Crenshaw on July 11, 2006 and Attorney Vernon Jordan on July 18, 2006, at the W. E. B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University (sponsored by the NEH Institute on Civil Rights) and to have asked questions about their involvement with the NAACP youth councils. Mrs. Johnnie Carr (former assistant advisor for the Montgomery NAACP Youth Council) Ms. Doris Crenshaw (former vice president of Montgomery NAACP Youth Council) Attorney Vernon Jordan (former member of the Atlanta NAACP Youth Council and NAACP southeastern field worker) Secondary Sources Books Anderson, Carol. Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Apel, Dora. Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933–1940. New York: Noonday Press, 1989. Baker, Ella. “Developing Community Leadership.” In Black Woman in America, edited by Gerda Lerner. New York: Vintage Books, 1973. Bartley, Numan V. The New South, 1945–1980. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Bibliography 195 Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir. New York: David McKay, 1962. Bayor, Ronald. Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Beals, Melba P. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Bell, Derrick. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes of Racial Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Berg, Manfred. The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004. Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. ———. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–65. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Bunche, Ralph J. The Political Status of the Negro in the Age of FDR, edited by Dewey W. Grantham. 1940. Reprint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Carney, Jessie. Notable Black America Women. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge , MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Carter, Robert. A Matter of Law: A Memoir of the Struggle in the Causes of Equal Rights. New York: The New Press, 2005. Cashin, Sheryll. The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Chafe, William, Raymond...