Summer Reading 2007 - Library Resources
Library Collections
Primary Source Materials in Duke Libraries
Duke’s Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library (RBMSCL) is a rich repository of primary documents and original material relating to the book and its themes, including:- Behind the Veil collection contains audio interviews with Ann Atwater and others documenting life under Jim Crow
- John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture holds manuscripts, oral histories, and photographic collections documenting life in Durham, including the CC and Asa Spaulding papers
- A number of print and manuscript collections document Ku Klux Klan life, activities, and politics, including the Ernest Sevier Cox papers
Digital Collections
Inventory of the Duke University Oral History Program Collection ...
... The majority of the oral history interviews deal with the civil rights movement
in North Carolina, especially Durham, Chapel Hill, and Greensboro. ...
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/duohp/inv/
Inventory of the Robert T. Osborn Papers, 1963-1967
... His collection includes clippings, correspondence and trial-related documents relating
to a civil rights protest in Chapel Hill in January 1964. ...
library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uaosbornrt/inv/
Register of the Papers of the United States Commission on Civil Rights ...
... Register of the Papers of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, North Carolina
Advisory Committee, 1949-1962. ... United States--Civil Rights Act of 1957. ...
library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/civil/inv/
Civil Rights in Durham, 1940s to 1970s: A Bibliography
Books
Anderson, Jean Bradley. Durham County: A History of Durham County, North
Carolina. Durham, Duke University Press, 1990.
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated
South. Eds. William Chafe, Ray Gavins, & Robert Korstad. New York: New Press, 2001.
Davidson, Osha Gray. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New
South. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996; Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2007.
Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement
in Durham, NC. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2005. (Duke dissertation)
Jones, Dorothy Phelps. The End of an Era. Durham: Brown Enterprises, 2001.
Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. Spartenburg, SC:
The Reprint Co., c1956, 1973.
Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York:
Harper & Row, 1986.
Vann, Andre D. and Beverly Washington Jones. Durham’s Hayti. Charleston:
Arcadia, 2000. (Black America series)
Wise, Jim. Durham. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000. (Images of America series)
Wise, Jim. Durham: A Bull City Story. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.
Media
Negro Durham Marches On. [videorecording on 16mm film] Cary, NC: Media
Consultants, [1989?] (film showing Hayti community, created ca 1948)
{available at Durham County Library}
An Unlikely Friendship. [videorecording, (35 min)] [Chapel Hill, NC: 2000]
{available at Durham County Library, Lilly Library, and from documentarian, Diane Bloom,
dianebloom@mindspring.com}
February One: Story of the Greensboro Four. [videorecording (60 min)]
[Durham, NC]: Video Dialog, Inc., c2003 {available at Lilly Library}
Web Sites
Digital Durham
A web-based resource offering a variety of primary sources focusing on the economic, social, cultural, and political history of Durham.
http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/
Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project: Our Pictures, Our Stories.
North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library.
www.durhamcountylibrary.org/dcrhp/index.html
Endangered Durham
Land use, architecture, history, and sustainable development in Durham, NC.
www.endangereddurham.org.
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