Jabarkan Organisasi para aktivis dari Gerakan Hak-Hak Sipil Afrika-Amerika (1955-1968)

Asosiasi Nasional untuk Kemajuan Orang Kulit Berwarna (NAACP)

Konferensi Kepemimpinan Kristen Selatan (SCLC)

Komite Koordinasi Siswa Antikekerasan (SNCC)

Dana Pendidikan Konferensi Selatan (SCEF)

Dewan Nasional Wanita Negro (NCNW)

Konferensi Kepemimpinan Hak-Hak Sipil (LCCR)

Komite Medis Hak-Hak Sipil (MCHR)

Komite Organisasi Siswa Selatan (SSOC)

Dewan Regional Kepemimpinan Negro (Mississippi)

Council of Federated Organizations (Mississippi)

Women's Political Council (Montgomery, AL)

Asosiasi Perbaikan Montgomery (Montgomery, AL)

Komite Hak-Hak Sipil Siswa Virginia

Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice . New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-513674-8

Barnes, Catherine A. Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit, Columbia University Press, 1983.

Berger, Martin A. Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Beito, David T. and Beito, Linda Royster, Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power , University of Illinois Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-252-03420-6

Branch, Taylor. At Canaans Edge: America In the King Years, 1965–1968. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN 0-684-85712-X

Branch, Taylor. Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. ISBN 0-671-46097-8

Branch, Taylor. Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963–1965.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-80819-6

Breitman, George. The Assassination of Malcolm X. New York: Pathfinder Press. 1976.

Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1980. ISBN 0-374-52356-8.

Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill; Polsgrove, Carol, eds. Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963 and Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973. New York: Library of America, 2003. ISBN 1-931082-28-6 and ISBN 1-931082-29-4.

Chandra, Siddharth and Angela Williams-Foster. "The ‘Revolution of Rising Expectations,’ Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s: Evidence from State-Level Data." Social Science History, 29(2):299–332, 2005.

Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference & Martin Luther King. The University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Doner, Eric and Joshua Brown, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction . Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2005. p. 225–238. ISBN 978-0-375-70274-7

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 800 pages. New York: William Morrow, 1986. ISBN 0-688-04794-7.

Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King. New York: W.W. Norton. 1981. Viking Press Reprint edition. 1983. ISBN 0-14-006486-9. Yale University Press; Revised and Expanded edition. 2006. ISBN 0-300-08731-4.

Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham. North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Holsaert, Faith (and 5 others) Hands on the Freedom Plow Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC . University of Illinois Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-252-03557-9.

Horne, Gerald. The Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1995. Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press ed edition. October 1, 1997. ISBN 0-306-80792-0

Kirk, John A. Martin Luther King, Jr.. London: Longman, 2005. ISBN 0-582-41431-8

Kirk, John A. Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8130-2496-X

Kousser, J. Morgan, "The Supreme Court And The Undoing of the Second Reconstruction," National Forum, (Spring 2000).

Kryn, Randy. "James L. Bevel, The Strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement", 1984 paper with 1988 addendum, printed in "We Shall Overcome, Volume II" edited by David Garrow, New York: Carlson Publishing Co., 1989.

Malcolm X (with the assistance of Alex Haley). The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Random House, 1965. Paperback ISBN 0-345-35068-5. Hardcover ISBN 0-345-37975-6.

Marable, Manning. Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945–1982. 249 pages. University Press of Mississippi, 1984. ISBN 0-87805-225-9.

McAdam, Doug. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1982.

McAdam, Doug, 'The US Civil Rights Movement: Power from Below and Above, 1945-70', in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-955201-6.

Minchin, Timothy J. Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960–1980 . University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8078-2470-4.

Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press, 1984. ISBN 0-02-922130-7

Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945–1975. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education, a Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy . Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-515632-3

Raiford, Leigh. Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, a Radical Democratic Vision. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Tsesis, Alexander. We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11837-7

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN 0-14-009653-1

Westheider, James Edward. "My Fear is for You": African Americans, Racism, and the Vietnam War. University of Cincinnati, 1993.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Third Revised Edition. 1955; Oxford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0-19-501805-2

Civil Rights Greensboro  menyediakan akses ke arsip zaman hak-hak sipil modern di Greensboro, Carolina Utara, dari 1940-an hingga awal 1980-an

Napak tilas Gerakan Hak-Hak Sipil St. Augustine

Civil Rights Resource Guide, Perpustakaan Kongres

The Civil Rights Era  Perpustakaan Kongres

Civil Rights & Sunbelt Georgia, 1945-1980s  Digital Library of Georgia

Civil Rights Movement Veterans , Sejarah, kisah-kisah pribadi, dokumen, dan foto.