Primer bibliography on the work of the NAACP & NAACP LDF

Primer bibliography on the work of the NAACP & NAACP LDF

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• Shawn Leigh Alexander, An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle before the NAACP (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
• Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize : The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Carol Anderson, Bourgeois Radicals : The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 (New York NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Manfred Berg, The Ticket to Freedom : The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).
• Kenneth W. Goings, The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
• Jeffrey D. Gonda, Unjust Deeds : The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Justice, Power, and Politics (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
• Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How the Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
• Amina Hassan, Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015).
• Darlene Clark Hine, Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1979).
• Langston Hughes, Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP (New York: Norton, 1962).
• Kenneth Robert Janken, White : The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP (New York: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2003).
• Gilbert Jonas, Freedom's Sword : The NAACP and the Struggle against Racism in America, 1909-1969 (New York ; London: Routledge, 2005).
• Charles Flint Kellogg, NAACP: A History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vol. 1: 1909-1920 (Baltimore: John's Hopkins University Press, 1967).
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (New York: Knopf, 1976).
• David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (New York: H. Holt, 1993).
• David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (New York: H. Holt, 2000).
• Merline Pitre, In Struggle against Jim Crow : Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999).
• B. Joyce Ross, J. E. Spingarn and the Rise of the NAACP (New York: Atheneum, 1972).
• Lee Sartain, Invisible Activists : Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915-1945 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007).
• Lee Sartain, Borders of Equality : The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013).
• Mark R. Schneider, "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement In the Jazz Age (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002).
• Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice : The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: New Press, 2009).
• Mark V. Tushnet, The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987).
• Kevern Verney, and Lee Sartain, Long Is the Way and Hard : One Hundred Years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009).
• Carolyn Wedin, Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP (New York: Wiley, 1998).
• Juan Williams, Thurgood Marshall : American Revolutionary (New York: Times Books, 1998).
• Robert L. Zangrando, The NAACP Crusade against Lynching, 1909-1950 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980).