| Working Bibliography for No Easy Victories
(39 books now listed) This includes books relevant for the context in the U.S. and Africa, as well as books more directly focused on U.S. activism and African liberation. Coming later: more books, book chapters, articles, pamphlets, input form for writers and editors, form to search by author, title, or years covered NOTE: By clicking on the ISBN number, you can go to Powell's to order the book. Seven and a half percent of the price will go to support the book project.. |
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Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 500 pp. ISBN: 0195104579 Years covered: 1960-1973 |
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Archer, Jules. The Incredible Sixties: The Stormy Years That Changed America. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 223 pp. ISBN: 0152382984 Years covered: 1960-1970 |
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Arthur, John A. Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 200 pp. ISBN: 027596759X Years covered: |
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Artists United Against Apartheid. Sun City: The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. 122 pp. ISBN: 0140089977 Years covered: 1985 |
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Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 360 pp. ISBN: 0674010604 Years covered: 1945-1955 |
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Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 369 pp. ISBN: 067400597X Years covered: 1945-1990 |
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Culverson, Donald R. Contesting Apartheid: U.S. Activism, 1960-1987. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 177 pp. ISBN: 0813366690 Years covered: 1980-1987 |
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Edgar, ed, Robert E. . Sanctioning Apartheid. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1990. 433 pp. ISBN: 0855431639 Years covered: 1986-1987 |
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Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam Book, 1987. 513 pp. ISBN: 0553346016 Years covered: 1960-1969 |
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Goodman, David. Fault Lines: Jorneys into the New South Africa. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. 418 pp. ISBN: 0520232038 Years covered: |
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Haley, Alex, and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. 460 pp. ISBN: 0345304950 Years covered: 1925-1965 |
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Horne, Gerald. Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. 437 pp. ISBN: 0887060889 Years covered: 1944-1963 |
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Horne, Gerald. From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 389 pp. ISBN: 0807849030 Years covered: 1965-1980 |
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Houser, George M. No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989. 388 pp. ISBN: 0829807950 Years covered: 1935-1985 |
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James, C. L. R. Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1977. 227 pp. ISBN: 0882080776 Years covered: 1943-1967 |
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Kelley, Robin D. G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002. 248 pp. ISBN: 0807009768 Years covered: |
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Koning, Hans. Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. 194 pp. ISBN: 0393024741 Years covered: 1968- |
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Krenn, Michael L. Black Diplomacy: African American and the State Department 1945-1969. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1999. 223 pp. ISBN: 0765603810 Years covered: 1945-1969 |
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Layton, Azza Salama. International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 217 pp. ISBN: 0521669766 Years covered: 1941-1960 |
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Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: Henry Holt, 2000. 715 pp. ISBN: 0805068139 Years covered: 1919-1963 |
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Lyman, Princeton N. Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa's Transition to Democracy. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2002. 344 pp. ISBN: 1929223366 Years covered: |
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Magubane, Bernard Makhosezwe. The Ties that Bind: African-American Consciousness of Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1987. 251 pp. ISBN: 0865430373 Years covered: |
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Makeba, Miriam, and James Hall. Makeba: My Story. New York, NY: New American Library, 1987. 249 pp. ISBN: 0453005616 Years covered: 1932-1986 |
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Massie, Robert Kinloch. Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years. New York: Doubleday, 1997. 896 pp. ISBN: 0385261675 Years covered: 1960-1990 |
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McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 304 pp. ISBN: 0226555526 Years covered: 1930-1970 |
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Merriwether, James H. Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 336 pp. ISBN: 0807849979 Years covered: 1935-1961 |
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Minter, William. King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa. New York: Basic Books, 1986. 401 pp. ISBN: 0465037232 Years covered: 1870-1985 |
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Nixon, Rob. Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond. New York: Routledge, 1994. 305 pp. ISBN: 0415908612 Years covered: 1948-1994 |
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Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 423 pp. ISBN: 0807845752 Years covered: 1935-1960 |
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Plummer, ed, Brenda Gayle. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 259 pp. ISBN: 080785428X Years covered: 1945-1988 |
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Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 470 pp. ISBN: 0807827789 Years covered: 1903-1986 |
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Robeson, Paul, and Lloyd L. Brown. Here I Stand. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988. 121 pp. ISBN: 0807064459 Years covered: 1898-1957 |
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Robinson, Randall. Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998. 304 pp. ISBN: 0452279682 Years covered: 1967-1997 |
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Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS. New York: Vintage Books, 1973. 752 pp. ISBN: 0394719654 Years covered: |
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Shepherd, Jr, George W. They Are Us: Fifty Years of Human Rights Advocacy. n.p.: Xlibris Corporation, 2002. 435 pp. ISBN: 1401048471 Years covered: |
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Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality 1954-1980. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981. 259 pp. ISBN: 0809001446 Years covered: 1954-1980 |
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Sutherland, Bill, and Matt Meyer. Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000. 279 pp. ISBN: 0865437513 Years covered: 1940-1998 |
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The Editors of Freedomways, eds. Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner. New York: International Publishers, 1998. 396 pp. ISBN: 071780724X Years covered: 1898-1978 |
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Von Eschen, Penny M. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 259 pp. ISBN: 0801482925 Years covered: 1937-1957 |