Readings

Arsenault, Raymond. The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Changed America. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Buchanan, Scott. “The Dixiecrat Rebellion: Long-Term Partisan Implications of the Deep South.” Politics and Policy 33, no. 4 (2005): 754-769.

Concklin, Edward Franklin, ed. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1927.

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman: A Life. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994.

Frederickson, Kari. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Gardner, Michael R. Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Geselbracht, Raymond H. The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2007.

Goldfield, David. “Border Men: Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Civil Rights.” Journal of Southern History 80, no. 1 (2014): 7-38.

Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Juhnke, William E. “President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights: The Interaction of Politics, Protest, and Presidential Advisory Commission.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 19, no. 3 (1989): 593-610.

Karabell, Zachary. The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Katznelson, Ira, Kim Geiger, and Daniel Kryder. “Limiting Liberalism: The Southern Veto in Congress.” Political Science Quarterly 108, no. 2 (1993): 283-306.

Keiler, Alan. Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey. New York, NY: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 2000.

Kimble, James J. “The Illustrated Four Freedoms: FDR, Rockwell, and the Margins of the Rhetorical Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2015): 46-69.

Kirkendall, Richard Stewart. Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2013.

Leuchtenburg, William E. “The Conversion of Harry Truman.” American Heritage 42, no. 7 (1991). http://www.americanheritage.com/content/conversion-harry-truman.

———. The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

McCullough, David. Truman. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1992.

McMahon, Kevin J. Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1973.

Pauley, Garth E. “Harry Truman and the NAACP: A Case Study in Presidential Persuasion on Civil Rights.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2, no. 2 (1999): 211-41.

———. The Modern Presidency & Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race from Roosevelt to Nixon. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Sandage, Scott A. “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963.” The Journal of American History 80, no. 1 (1993): 135-67.

Truman, Harry S. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Volume Two, Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1956.

White, Walter. A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1948.

Audio-Visual Materials

“The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.” PBS. 2013. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/.

American Experience. “The Presidents: Truman.” PBS. 1997. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/truman/

“Slavery by Another Name.” PBS. 2012. http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

On-Line Resources 

Harry S. Truman and Civil Rights (Archival Materials Available Electronically). Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. https://trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/trumancivilrights/index.php

Harry S. Truman and Civil Rights (Interactive Website for Students). Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. https://www.trumanlibrary.org/dbq/civilrights.php

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. http://www.naacp.org.

Papers of the NAACP. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/1003/collection.html.

Universal News. “Universal News Volume 20, Release 52, Stories 1-3, June 30, 1947.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNMhmcVqCU&feature=youtu.be