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Peniel Joseph, Waiting ’til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006). An important history of Black Power.
Ian F. Haney López, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (2003). An exceptional case study of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles.
Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995). A detailed case study that provides a local view of movement activism.
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (2003). A powerful biography of a key activist.
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008). A significant, readable overview of the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, atdigilib.usm.edu/crmda.php, offers 150 oral histories relating to Mississippi.