Civil disobedience – A pathfinder

Books - Dirigo HS Library:

289.6 BAC The quiet rebels : the story of the Quakers in America / [by] Margaret H. Bacon.

291.9 AND Communities of the faithful : American religious movements outside the mainstream / [by] Tricia Andryszewski.

301.45 HAR The long freedom road : the civil rights story/ Foreword by Whitney M. Young, Jr. History of the civil rights movement, emphasizing problems and progress in integration.

306 HUR The 1960s / Jennifer A. Hurley. Presents opposing viewpoints on events of the 1960s including the Vietnam War, social rebellion, the civil rights movement, and the women's liberation movement.

303.66 MEL Ain't gonna study war no more : the story of America's peace seekers / Milton Meltzer. Presents a history of pacifism and those who have protested against war, concentrating on war resistance in the United States from colonial days to the present and concerns about nuclear arms and terrorism.

321.3 WEI Freedom bound : a history of America's civil rights movement / Robert Weisbrot ; with the research assistance of Dolita Cathcart.

323.4 BUT Protest II: civil rights and Black liberation : the antiwar movement; new directions in protest / [by] Miriam Butwin [and] Pat Pirmantgen. Traces the main events in the civil rights and antiwar movements.

324.6 STE Jailed for freedom : American women win the vote. Tells the story of the suffragists' fight for the right to vote.

355.2 LYN We won't go : personal accounts of war objectors. Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors.

303.48 KRO Protest! By Michael Kronenwetter

818.3 THO Walden; or, Life in the woods, by Henry D. Thoreau

954.03 SHE Mohandas Gandhi : the power of the spirit / by Victoria Sherrow. Presents the life of Mohandas Gandhi who not only worked against discrimination in South Africa but also led India to freedom from British rule.

973.3 ONE The Boston Tea Party / [by] Laurie A. O'Neill. Describes the events that led to the dumping of tea into Boston harbor known as the Boston Tea Party.

973.311 FRY Boston and the tea riots / by Norma R. Fryatt. Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the dumping of tea cargo into the waters of Boston port in 1773.

973.7 HAG Beyond the river : the untold story of the heroes of the Underground Railroad / Ann Hagedorn.

973.7 TOB Hidden in plain view : the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad / [by] Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard. Reveals how quilts made by African American slaves were used to help people escape and travel to freedom using the Underground railroad.

Biographies

B ANTHONY Susan B. Anthony, pioneer in woman's rights / Illustrated by Paul Frame. The woman who pioneered in the movement to gain equal rights for women.

B BATES Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader / Amy Polakow. A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s.

B KING Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr / [by] Stephen B. Oates.

B PARKS Rosa Parks / [by] Douglas Brinkley. The biography of Rosa Parks, an African American who woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, beginning a social revolution for racial equality.

B PENN William Penn : Quaker colonist / Kieran Doherty. A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion.

B TUBMAN Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad / by Ann Petry. A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad.

Collected Biographies

920 FRA Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves / Dennis Brindell Fradin A biographical look at the slaves that fled the South in search of freedom via the underground railroad.

920 PLO Famous firsts of Black women / [by] Martha Ward Plowden Focuses on notable African-American women who have helped shape American destiny, including contributors in the fields of politics, sports, and the arts.

Historic Fiction

FIC CLA Bloomers and ballots : Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's rights / [by] Mary Stetson Clarke. A biography of one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement.

Reference

REF 920 WOM Women in world history : a biographical encyclopedia / Anne Commire, editor, Deborah Klezmer, associate editor.

Lots of good short biographies of famous women.

REF 973.92 AME American Decades/ edited by Vincent Tompkins.

Use this source to look up topics by date. For example in the 1960-1969 volume find Freedom Rides, Sit-ins, Vietnam protests

MSL Stacks The legacy of Luna: the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill

WWW and the Internet

Encyclopedia.com - On Civil Disobedience

Try typing in "Sit-ins"     You will find:

	Greensboro Sit-Ins
	Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
	Freedom Now
	Increase & Diffusion: Sitting For Justice
	Sitting for Justice
	Timeline of the Greensboro Sit-ins
	Audio Samples of the Greensboro Sit-ins
	Teacher's Domain: Civil Rights Special Collection

Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education

Quotations about Civil Disobedience

Who said that? Quotes of civil disobedience quotes archive.

Maps

Underground Railroad

African American Oddessey Freedom Riders Map

Boston Tea Party Site map