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WFU Slavery, Race, & Memory Project: Secondary Bibliography for the History of Wake Forest University

Historical and Other Resources for Research

Secondary Sources (Online)

Secondary Sources (ZSR Library)

Bibliography
Southern Higher Education and Race
Locations include the Main Collection, ZSR Library and Special Collections & Archives (SCA), Room 625 or Digital Collections, ZSR Library

Billingsley, William J. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. (ZSR LC72.3 N67 B55 1999)

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. (ZSR E185.61 B7914 1988)

Byrd, W. Carson. Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. (ZSR LC212.42 B97 2017)

Caro, Robert. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. New York: Knopf, 1982. (ZSR E847 C34 1982)

Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (ZSR F264 G8 C47)

Feldman, Glenn. Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. (ZSR E185.61 B36 2004)

I’m Not My Brother’s Keeper: Leadership and Civil Rights in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. By Mary M. Dalton and Susan L. Faust. (ZSR DVD 5254)

Kean, Melissa. Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. (ZSR LC214.22 S68 K43 2008)

McLeod, G. Bryan. Making History: February 23, 1960, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (SCA: E185.61 B793 2000) (SCA Digital: https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/94107)

McMinnis, Maurie D. and Louis P. Nelson, Editors. Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University. University of Virginia Press, 2019 (on order)

Moore, Winfred B., Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White, Jr., Editors. Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. (ZSR F208.2 C58 2000)

Smith, Christi M. Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. (LB3066 S55 2016 WEB)

Wallenstein, Peter. Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. (ZSR LC214.22 S68 H54 2008)