The following books have proven useful in gaining a general understanding of the period.

Harvie Wilkinson III, J., From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration: 1954-1978, Oxford University Press, New York, 1978.

Fossett, J.J., Tucker, J.A., (eds.), Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century, New York University Press, New York, 1997.

Gurr, T.R., (ed.), Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, vol. 2, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, 1989.

Mann, R., The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Harcourt Brace and Company, San Diego, 1996.

Garrow, D.J., Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1986.

Higham, J., (ed.), Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1997.

Smith, K., (ed.), Desegregation/Integration: Planning for School Change - A Training Program for Intergroup Educators, National Education Association, Washington D.C., 1974.