The selected resources listed below were chosen as articles and books that would provide a general foundation for researchers interested in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. These resources are available at the IIT Chicago-Kent Law Library. Students, Faculty & Staff may connect to any of the databases (JSTOR, HeinOnline, EBSCO) remotely with their login name & password. Other users should contact their local library for assistance.
Books may be checked out at the Library Service Desk by IIT students, faculty & staff. Others may check out these books through the Illinois I-Share Program or through the Interlibrary Loan office at their local library.
Articles
ARTICLES
ROSA PARKS
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, J. Blacks Higher Educ. No. 6 Winter 1994, at 18. (Available through JSTOR)
R. Aitken, Rosa Parks: An American Icon, 29 Litig. 47 (2003). (Available in library: Litigation call # KF12.I68)
A. L. Higginbotham, Rosa Parks: Foremother & Heroine Teaching Civility & Offering a Vision for a Better Tomorrow, 22 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 899 (1995). (Available through HeinOnline and in print at call # K6.L69)
BUS BOYCOTT
A. Meier & E. Rudwick, The Boycott Movement Against Jim Crow Streetcars in the South, 1900-1906, 55 J. Am. Hist. 756 (1969). (Available through JSTOR)
R. Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale L.J. 999 (Apr. 1989). (Available through JSTOR, HeinOnline and in print at call # K29.A415)
R. J. Glennon, The Role of Law in the Civil Rights Movement: the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1957, 9 Law & Hist. Rev. 59 (1991). (Available through JSTOR, HeinOnline and in print at call # K12.A88)
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY
The Common-Law and Constitutional Status of Anti-Discrimination Boycotts. 66 Yale L.J. 397 (1957). (Available through JSTOR, HeinOnline and in print at call # K29.A415)
D. S. Bogen, Precursors of Rosa Parks: Maryland Transportation Cases between the Civil War and the Beginning of World War I, 63 Md. L. Rev. 721 (2004). (Available through HeinOnline and in print at call # K13.A685) t
J. M. Brittan, Some Reflections on Negro Suffrage and Politics in Alabama –Past and Present, 47 J. Negro Hist. 127 (1962). (Available through JSTOR)
R. J. Glennon, The Role of Law in the Civil Rights Movement: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1957, 9 Law & Hist. Rev. 59 (1991). (Available through JSTOR, HeinOnline and in print at call # K12.A88).
L. M. Killian, Organization, Rationality and Spontaneity in the Civil Rights Movement, 49 Am. Soc. Rev. 770 (1984). (Available through JSTOR)
R. Martin, Civil Disobedience, 80 Ethics 123 (1970). (Available through JSTOR)
J. W. Vander Zanden, The Non-Violent Resistance Movement Against Segregation, 68 Am. J. Soc. 544 (1963). (Available through JSTOR)
R. C. Weaver, Some Basic Issues in Desegregation, 25 J. Negro Educ. 101 (1956). (Available through JSTOR)
B. Wirmark, Nonviolent Methods and the American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965, 11 J. of Peace Res. 115 (1974). (Available through JSTOR)
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
C. Clayborne, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle, 74 J. Am. Hist. 448 (1987). (Available through JSTOR)
D. J. Garrow, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Spirit of Leadership, 74 J. Am. Hist. 438 (1987). (Available through JSTOR)
L. Gyant, Passing the Torch: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 26 J. Black Stud. 629 (1996). (Available through JSTOR)
R. Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale L.J. 999 (1989). (Available through JSTOR, HeinOnline and in print at call # K29.A415)
BOOKS
A Common Destiny Blacks and American Society (Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr. Eds., 1989) (Call # E185.86.C582)
Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America (Charles DeBenedetti ed., 1986) (Call # JX1952.P336 1986)
T. Branch, Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954-63 (1989) (Call # E185.61.B7914 1989)
M. Finch, The NAACP: Its Fight for Justice (1981) (Call # E185.5.N276F56)
M. L. King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom The Montgomery Story (1958) (Call # E185.89.T8K5)
M. L. King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait (1964) (Call # E185.61.K54 1964)
W. M. Kunstler, Deep in My Heart (1966). (Call # KF373.K8A3 1966)
A. Lewis and The New York Times, Portrait of a Decade (1965). (Call # E185.61.L52 1965)
C. Lynn, There is a Fountain: The Autobiography of a Civil Rights Lawyer (1979) (Call # KF373.L96A35)
A. D. Morris, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Black Communities Organizing for Change (1984) (Call # E185.61.M845 1984)
D. Sterling, Tear Down the Walls! A History of the Black Revolution in the United States (1970). (Call # E185.6.S76)