Bibliography

NIXON, EDGAR DANIEL

BOOKS |ARTICLES

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z|

BOOKS

A

Abernathy, Ralph D. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York: Harper and Row Publisher, 1989.

________________. "The Natural History of a Social Movement: The Montgomery Improvement Association." in The Walking City edited by David Garrow. Brooklyn, New York: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.

Alabama Center for Higher Education. Statewide Oral History Project, Transcriptions of Interviews, volume one through ten. Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute, 1973.

Anderson, Jarvis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973.

B Return to Top

Baldwin, Lewis V. and Aprille V. Woodson. Freedom is Never Free: A Biographical Portrait of E.D. Nixon. Atlanta: United Parcel Service, 1992.

Barnes, Catherine A. Journey From Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Bennett, Lerone. Wade in the Water: Great Moments in Black History. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1979.

Bishop, Jim. The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Burns, Stewart, ed. Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

C Return to Top

Carson, Clayborne, Stewart Burns, and Susan Carson, eds. Birth of a New Age, 1955-1956: Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Volume 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Community Leaders of America. North Carolina: American Biographical Institute, 1973.

D Return to Top

Davis, Lenwood G. I Have a Dream... The Life and Times of Martin L. King, Jr. Connecticut: Negro Universities Press, 1969.

Dees, Morris and Steve Fiffer. A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer

Morris Dees. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991.

Durham, Michael S. and Charles Moore. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1991.

Durr, Virginia Foster and Hollinger F. Barnard. Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

E Return to Top

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. 5v.

F Return to Top

Fairclough, Adam. Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Fields, Uriah J. The Montgomery Story: The Unhappy Effects of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

New York: Exposition Press, 1959.

G Return to Top

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986.

_____________. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader, Theologian, Orator. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.

_____________. The Walking City: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-56. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.

Gilliam, Thomas J. "The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956." in The Walking City edited by David J. Garrow. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1989.

Goldfield, David. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Graetz, Robert S. Montgomery: A White Preacher's Memoir. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.

Gray, Fred D. Bus Ride to Justice. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1994.

___________, et al., The Children Coming on... A Retrospective of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Montgomery, Black Belt Press, 1998.

H Return to Top

Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Alabama: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1977.

Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement From the 1950's Through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

K Return to Top

Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996.

King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.

King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper and Row, 1958.

King, Mary. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1987.

L Return to Top

Levy, Peter B., ed. Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Lewis, David L. King: A Critical Biography. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.

Luker, Ralph E. Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham, Md., The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1997.

M Return to Top

Millner, Steven Michael. The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Case Study in the Emergence and Career of a Social Movement. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1989.

Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press, 1984.

N Return to Top

Newman, Richard and Marcia Sawyer. Everybody Say Freedom. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Notable Black American Men edited by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit, Gale Research Inc., 1999.

O Return to Top

Oates, Stephen B. Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper and Row Publisher. 1982.

P Return to Top

Parks, Rosa. Quiet Strength. Grands Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.

_________. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York, Dial Books, 1992.

Patterson, Lillie. Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Freedom Movement. New York: Facts on File, 1989.

Peck, Ira. The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1968.

Peck, James. Freedom Ride. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.

Peeks, Edward. The Long Struggle for Black Power. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

Peters, William. The Southern Temper. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1958.

Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Pierce, Neal R. The Deep South States of America. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1974.

R Return to Top

Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.

Reddick, L.D. Crusader Without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper and Row, 1959.

Robinson, Cedric J. Black Movements in America. New York, Routledge, 1997.

Robinson, JoAnn G. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Rustin, Bayard. Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

S Return to Top

Selby, Earl and Miriam Selby. Odyssey: Journey Through Black America. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.

Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.

Stevenson, Janet. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, December 1955: American Blacks Demand an End to Segregation. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1971.

T Return to Top

Terkel, Stud. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.

Thompson, B.S. A Century of Negro Progress in Montgomery City and County. Montgomery: Centennial Committee, 1963.

V Return to Top

Valien, Preston. "The Montgomery Bus Protest as a Social Movement." in Race Relations edited by Jitsuichi Masuoka and Preston Valien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Viorst, Milton. Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960s. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

W Return to Top

Washington, James M., ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking, 1987.

Wright, Roberta Hughes. The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Southfield, Michigan: Charro Press, Inc., 1991.

* AA|BB|CC|DD|EE|FF|GG|HH|II|JJ|KK|LL|MM|NN|OO|PP|QQ|RR|SS|TT|UU|VV|WW|XX|YY|ZZ

ARTICLES Back To Top of Page

AA Go Back

Alpert, Mark. "Black Leaders Pay respects to E.D. Nixon." The Montgomery Advertiser. (4 March 1987): 1.

__________. "Nations's Black Leaders Mourn Nixon's Death." The Montgomery Advertiser. (27 February 1987): 1.

Azbell, Joe. "Just a Black Pullman Porter But Worthy of High Note." The Montgomery Independent. (12 March 1987): 2.

_________. "The Man Who Made M.L. King." The Montgomery Advertiser. (30 January 1975:

__________. "Random Notes from a Reporter's Desk." The Montgomery Independent. (17 April 1980).

BB Go Back

Bennett, Lerone. "The Day the Black Revolution Began." Ebony. 32 (September 1977): 54-56+

Bentley, Emily. "Bus Boycott Architect Dies Wednesday Night." Alabama Journal. 26 February 1987): 1A-9A.

____________. "Friends, Family Pay Respects to Man Who Fathered the Civil Rights Movement." Alabama Journal. (3 March 1987): 8.

Brogdon, Neal. "E.D. Nixon." Alabama Journal. (27 February 1987): 18.

Boyd, D.R. "E.D. Nixon." Salute to a Courageous Freedom Fighter." The Economic Spirit. (Summer 1979): 4.

CC Go Back

"Civil Rights Leader Donates Papers to Alabama State University." Washington Afro-American. (17 January 1981): 3.

Clarke, Jacquelyne Johnson. "Standard operational procedures in tragic situations". Phylon. 22 (Fourth Quarter 1961): 318-328.

Cox, Carole. "Film as Documentation, Social Comment, Satire, and Spoof of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of the Black Pullman Porter." The English Journal. 76 (April 1987): 85-86.

Cox, Donald. "Edgar Daniel Nixon: King Maker." Black World: (February 1971): 89.

DD Go Back

Dent, Richard. "The Father His Children Forgot." American History Illustrated. 20 (December 1989): 10-17.

___________. "The Man Behind the Movement." Tusk. (4 February 1982): 4-5.

"Dr. E.D. Nixon's Birthday Party Highlighted by Actor Son E.D. Nixon, II." Montgomery-Tuskegee Times. (14-20 July 1983): 1.

EE Go Back

"E.D. Nixon." Boston Globe. (27 February 1987).

"E.D. Nixon." The Montgomery Advertiser. (27 February 1987): 1.

"E.D. Nixon, ‘Father of Montgomery Bus Boycott,' Dies in Hospital at 87." Jet (16 March 1987): 7.

"E.D. Nixon, Leader in Civil Rights, Dies." New York Times. ( 27 February 1987): 19-D.

Gardner, Tom. "E.D. Nixon to Receive Honorary Doctorate." The Montgomery Advertiser. (20 April 1981): 11.

___________. "E.D.Nixon to Receive Randolph Award." The Montgomery Advertiser.

____________ and Cynthia Stokes Brown. "The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Interviews with Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, Johnnie Carr and Virginia Durr." Southern Exposure 9 (1981): 12-21.

GG Go Back

Garrows, David J. "The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott." Southern Changes 7 (October 1985): 21-27.

Graetz, Robert. "They're Still Walking in Montgomery." Economic Justice 24 (March 1956): 1-3

HH Go Back

Helfin, Howell. "Senator Tributes: E.D. Nixon." Congressional Record. (8 April 1987): 1.

Hines, Ralph H. and James E. Pierce. "Negro Leadership after the Social Crisis: An Analysis of Leadership Changes in Montgomery, Alabama." Phylon 26 (1965): 162-172.

JJ Go Back

Johnson, Rheta G. "The End of One Man's Struggle." The Commercial Appeal. (4 March 1987).

KK Go Back

Kennedy, Randall. "Martin Luther King's Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott." Yale Law Journal 98 (April 1989): 999-1067.

King, Martin L., Jr. "Our Struggle" Liberation 1(April 1956): 3-6.

LL Go Back

_______________. "The Walk for Freedom." The Story of Montgomery. (1957): 4-5.

Lanier, Lynn. "E.D. Nixon: Leader of the Times." Alabama Journal. (17 May 1974): 14.

"Local Programs Will Honor Nixon's 50 Years of Service." Alabama Journal. (26 November 1982): 5.

MM Go Back

Martin, Virginia. "Black Leader Calls Problems ‘Serious'." Alabama Journal. (20 June 1983): 5.

"Montgomery Bus Boycott Leader E.D. Nixon Dies." The Montgomery Advertiser. (28 February 1987): 2D.

Mueller, Martha. "Nixon Didn't Get His Due, Some Claim." Alabama Journal. (17 February 1988): 1F.

NN Go Back

Nixon, Edgar Daniel. "How It All Started" Liberation 1 (December 1956): 10.

PP Go Back

Parham, Linda. "One Woman Crossed ‘Imaginary Line'." The Montgomery Advertiser. (4 December 1975): 2.

Pool, Penny L. "Housing Complex Named for E.D. Nixon." The Montgomery Advertiser. (6 October 1987): 1C-2C. "Profile of Dr. E.D. Nixon." Montgomery-Tuskegee Times. (23-29 August 1979: 12.

RR Go Back Reddick, Lawrence D. "The Bus Boycott in Montgomery." Dissent 3 (1956): 107-117./pre>

SS Go Back "Salute to a Courageous Freedom Fighter." The Economic Spirit. (Summer 1979): 4. Stewart, Walter. "Professor Clarifies Degree Timing." The Montgomery Advertiser. (8 May 1987): 12 A. Stevenson, Janet. "Rosa Parks Wouldn't Budge." American Heritage. 23 (February 1972): 57-64, 85.

TT Go Back Thornton, Jeannye. "I'm Not Going to Ride the Bus." U.S. New and World Report. 119 (December 11, 1995): 52-53. Thornton, J. Mills, III. "Challenge and Response in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956." Alabama Review. 30 (July 1980): 163-235.

WW Go Back Walton, Norman. "The Walking City: A History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott." Negro History Bulletin. 20 (October 1956): 17-21; (November 1956): 27-33; (February 1957): 102-104; (April 1957): 147; 21 (January 1958): 75ff. Warlick, W.D. "Man of the Year for 1954." The Pullman News. 33 (April 1955): 27. Wilhide, Peggy. "Bus Boycott Leader Feels Forgotten Now." The Montgomery Advertiser. (5 December 1985): 1-2D.

RS 5/98