African & African American Studies: Socio-Political Movements
Sociopolitical Movements
This page lists selected information sources on sociopolitical movements driven by African Americans. This page will include works that reference black rebellion, the civil rights movement, and the black lives matter movement.
Books provide information on a narrower subject area, and may only cover a specific aspect of a subject area. Some books may also provide broad surveys of a topic.
Reference sources provide summaries of facts, definition of terms, summaries of histories, short biographies, etc., on large subject areas. They are the best place to start research, particularly for users unfamiliar with a a field of study or subject area. Most of the reference sources at LSU Libraries are accessible online, but there are many reference sources available in print in the Libraries' stacks.
The videos listed are documentaries.
Books
Ain't Scared of Your Jail : Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement by ISBN: 9780813042640Publication Date: 2012-12-16
Art for Equality : The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights by ISBN: 9780813145181Publication Date: 2014-06-17
From Sit-Ins to SNCC : The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by ISBN: 9780813043647Publication Date: 2012-08-05
The Making of Black Lives Matter : a brief history of an idea by ISBN: 9780190601348Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Spectacular Blackness : The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic by ISBN: 9780813929606Publication Date: 2009-12-16
Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by ISBN: 9780814733127Publication Date: 2009-11-01
War! What Is It Good For? : Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq by ISBN: 9780807835029Publication Date: 2012-01-15
We Ain't What We Ought to Be : the Black freedom struggle, from emancipation to Obama by ISBN: 9780674036260Publication Date: 2010-01-25
Reference Sources
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights by ISBN: 031332171XPublication Date: 2003-12-30
Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations by ISBN: 0815323093Publication Date: 2001-01-16
Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History by ISBN: 9781598842227Publication Date: 2010-12-17
