Guide to Resources for Warriors Don't Cry

The following is a list of books, websites, and research resources available to members of the Augustana community who are seeking information related to the 2008 Augie Reads book Warriors Don't Cry. 

Background reading for African American history and culture:
In general, browse in the REF E185 section for books related to this subject. The following are a few major sources:

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
REF E185 .A58 - 7 volumes
In seven volumes, this series provides writings by African Americans from 1661 to 1968. Volume 6 is especially helpful for the study of Warriors Don't Cry as it covers the years 1951-1959 and includes documents “from the Korean War to the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.” such as King’s "Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” Martin D. Jenkins’s “Are Negroes Educable?” and Daisy Bates’s “Challenging Little Rock.”

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
REF 185 .E54 2006 - 6 volumes
A survey of African American experience. Each essay includes a short bibliography. Volume 6 includes a “Thematic Outline of Contents” where articles are grouped under broad topics such as “Civil Rights and Social Activism.” Browsing this category, you will find articles listed such as “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas” and “Civil Rights Movement.” Also in Volume 6 you will find a group of primary source documents, statistics and lists, and an index to the entire set.

The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America
REF  E185.61 .E544 1998 - 3 volumes
“Surveys the history, meaning, and application of civil rights issues in the United States” (publisher’s note). Many longer essays include suggested readings. At the back of each volume is a list of all the topics organized by subject. Volume 3 contains 8 appendices, including "Table of Court Cases," a filmography, and a bibliography that extends the suggested readings.

Black Women In America
REF  E185.86 .H542 2005 - 3 volumes
Detailing black women’s contributions to African American history and culture, this encyclopedia offers articles with bibliographies. Volume 3 ends with a “Thematic Outline of Entries” as well as a chronology of black women’s history and a selected bibliography.

Background reading for American social movements:

The REF HN section contains several books related to American social movements and social leaders. For example:

Encyclopedia of American Social History
REF HN57 .E58 - 3 volumes
This set contains scholarly essays detailing American social history from a variety of perspectives; "social history prods us to ask questions about the identities that unite and divide us according to such overlapping categories as...race, ethnicity...social class, [etc.]" Essays including "Race," "Postbellum African American Culture," and "The Deep South" may be good starting points.

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
REF HN57 .E594 - 4 volumes
Volume 1 contains over 150 pages of information about the Civil Rights Movement, tracing its history from 1865 through the present day. The Civil Rights Movement is only one of 16 social movements discussed in depth in this encyclopedia; examining others might reveal interesting possibilities for compare-and-contrast analysis. 

Books:

The following subject headings may help you find books in the Tredway Library. Search by “subject” when you use these headings:

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Segregation in education—Law and Legislation—U.S.—history
Discrimination in education—Law and legislation—U.S.—history
Brown, Oliver, 1918—Trials, litigation, etc.
Topeka (Kan.) Board of education—Trials, litigation, etc.
Race discrimination—Law & legislation—United States
African Americans—Segregation
African Americans—Legal status, laws, etc.

Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movements—United States
African Americans—Civil Rights—History—20th century
United States—Race Relations

African Americans—Religion
United States—Race relations
African American churches
African American families
Passive resistance

Articles in magazines, newspapers, and journals:

Tredway Library has many databases that will lead you to scholarly or popular articles in magazines and journals about civil rights, African Americans, education issues, etc. Here are a few to get you started. If you do not find a link to the full text of the article, search for the journal title in “Augustana’s Periodicals” to see if we have the full text in another database.

Academic Search Premier: interdisciplinary; includes popular and scholarly periodicals
ERIC: education journals and reports
CQ Researcher: provides 20-page booklets on topics of current interest
Family and Society Studies Worldwide: cross-disciplinary access to a variety of publications having to do with family
America History and Life: scholarly journals in American history
Sociological Abstracts: scholarly journals in sociology
JSTOR: full text archive of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
LexisNexis: full text access to newspapers and popular magazines

Films (will be placed on reserve for LSFY101 when they arrive):

The Lost Year: The Untold Story of the Year following the Crisis at Central High School
In the fall of 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus closed all high schools in Little Rock, blocking 3,665 black and white students from a public education. Families were separated when they sent their children out of Little Rock to attend other high schools, many students dropped out, state laws were passed to target members of the NAACP, and some teachers were fired for supporting integration. Accompanied by a website http://thelostyear.com/ and a book to be published in late 2008.

The Giants Wore White Gloves: The Women’s Emergency Committee to Reopen Our Schools
Explores the courage and commitment of a group of middle-class white women who opposed the 1958 Little Rock school closings, from their initial secret meetings to their acceptance—four decades later—of the National Education Association's Civil Rights Award.

Hoxie: The First Stand
In the summer of 1955, the school board of a small, rural Arkansas town voluntarily desegregated its schools. The newly formed White Citizens' Council saw this as a test of southern resistance to the Supreme Court's desegregation decision in Brown v. the Board of Education and soon descended on the town. They organized local citizens to try to force the board to rescind its order, but the five members and superintendent stood their ground. Segregationist leaders were so furious that they turned on Governor Faubus in the next primary, forcing him out of his previous moderate stance and setting up the 1957 confrontation in Little Rock.

Web sites:

Little Rock High 40th Anniversary
http://www.centralhigh57.org/
Includes links to contemporary (1957) coverage of the event in the Tiger, the student newspaper, and in two Arkansas papers, as well as information about the new (1997) museum and visitor center at Little Rock High School. Also provides information about President Clinton’s visit to Little Rock with all of the original the Little Rock Nine for festivities marking the 40th anniversary.

Little Rock Central High Civil Rights Memory Project
http://www.lrchmemory.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Fascinating site by students and teachers at Little Rock High School. Contains 327 transcripts of interviews with people who recount their memories of civil rights struggles in the 1950s (and other decades) in Little Rock and beyond. These are good primary source documents.

The Lost Year Project
http://www.thelostyear.com
What happened AFTER the turbulent 1957-58 school year in Little Rock? Learn more about the following year, during which Governor Faubus closed all the area high schools.

Little Rock High School National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/chsc/
The National Park Service maintains a visitor center at the site of Little Rock High School, though it is still a functioning school. This website includes lesson plans, teachers' guides, and links to additional resources.

Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
http://scipio.uark.edu/
Primary sources from the Special Collections at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville about the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights Project
http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/index.html
Founded in 1996 and based at UCLA, the Civil Rights Project conducts research in order to help achieve racial and ethnic equity in our society. Look at the “Resources” page, the list of civil rights organizations, the “Research” page (links to over 100 studies on civil rights topics such as immigration and K-12 education), and “Community Tools.”

Civil Rights Digital Library
http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home
“The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.”  This site includes a page of material related to the Little Rock event:  http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/events/viewEvent/189

School Funding Equity
http://www.geocities.com/schoolfunding/
“An overview of the funding disparities that plague this country's schools.”

Rethinking Schools Online
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
This organization “remains firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy. While writing for a broad audience, Rethinking Schools emphasizes problems facing urban schools, particularly issues of race.”

National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research
http://www.caldercenter.org/
A partnership of the Urban Institute and six research universities, CALDER analyzes factors that affect student achievement.

Closing the Achievement Gap
http://d3.dir.ac2.yahoo.com/Education/Equity/Closing_the_Achievement_Gap/
A list compiled by Yahoo! of websites that discuss the present-day socioeconomic and racial disparities in education in the United States.

U. S. Civil Rights Movement
http://d2.dir.ac2.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/Civil_Rights_Movement/
Another list of recommended sites from Yahoo!, this time examining the United States Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective.

EdChange
http://www.edchange.org/
“EdChange is a team of passionate, experienced, established, educators dedicated to equity, diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice. With this shared vision, we have joined to collaborate in order to develop resources, workshops, and projects that contribute to progressive change change in ourselves, our schools, and our society.”

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0009/menu.html
A 1976 interview with Daisy Bates, the civil rights activist and journalist who served as adviser to the Little Rock Nine.

Librarians’ Internet Index
http://lii.org/
Browse under “People" --> "Communities & Groups" --> "Black Resources.”

Best Information on the Net by St. Ambrose University
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/brown.htm
A set of links to websites on Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS.

Special Collections resources related to Warriors Don’t Cry and the Civil Rights movement:

Although Special Collections does not have an emphasis on Civil Rights materials, we do have a number of items that can illuminate what was happening at Augustana during the Civil Rights Movement, and that illustrate the attention these events and issues received on campus. 

The Observer
Augustana’s weekly newspaper, The Observer, offers information on what students at Augustana were thinking and doing at the time and can highlight what students found to be important or of interest. 

Augustana College Black Student Union Materials
A collection of materials related to the Black Student Union, including general information about the organization, articles about the organization, and information on events—such as orientations for new African-American students—hosted by the group.

Inside Augustana and the Student Handbook
Both these publications include lists of clubs and organizations on campus. Noting when certain student groups formed may indicate when student interest arose in certain issues.