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Bombingham, by Anthony Grooms.  Raynor Memorial Libraries offer this reading list in support of the 2007 First Year Reading selection.  Subject headings are appended to each section to help identify additional resources.

Readers are advised to check MARQCAT for circulation status and location as items may be in the Browsing Collection (Raynor 1st level), Raynor Reserves/AV (lower level), or in the Memorial stacks.  Books that are checked out may be reserved by clicking on the blue button at the top or bottom of the MARQCAT record.


Birmingham and the Civil Rights Movement

4 Little Girls (videorecording), an HBO documentary film, directed by Spike Lee (HBO Home Video, 2000) Raynor Reserves F334 .B69F6 2000

Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: the Black Struggle for Civil Rights. Edited by David J. Garrow (Carlson Pub., 1989) F334 .B69 N417 1989

"'Bombingham': Black Protest in Postwar Birmingham, Alabama." Glenn T. Eskew. Historian; Winter97, v. 59 issue 2, 371- (20 pages)

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights revolution. Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster, 2001) F334 .B69 N449 2001

Cities Under Siege: An Anatomy of the Ghetto Riots, 1964-68. Edited by David Boesel & Peter H. Rossi (Basic Books, 1971) E185.615 .B56 1971

The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68.  Steven Kasher; foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams (Abbeville Press, 1996) E185.61 .K347 1996

Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust. Mary Stanton (University Press of Mississippi, 2003) E185.61 .S785 2003

I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World.  Martin Luther King, Jr.; foreword by Coretta Scott King; edited by James Melvin Washington (Harper SanFrancisco, 1992) E185.97.K5 A25 1992

"The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980. Charles E. Connerly (University of Virginia Press, 2005) F334 .B69 N428 2005

Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement From the 1950s Through the 1980s. [compiled by] Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn (Bantam Books, 1990) E185.61 .H224 1990

Civil Rights in Milwaukee

Wisconsin Historical Society Web pages: Desegregation and Civil Rights; Black History in Wisconsin, Civil Rights Era; Vel Phillips; Father Groppi images.

Freedom Road (blogspot)

March on Milwaukee: The Struggle for Civil Rights 1967-2007 (Web site)

"Marching to Pass the Torch," Dani McClain, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 26, 2007

City With a Chance. Frank A. Aukofer (Bruce Pub. Co. [1968]) F589 .M6A93 [1968]

A Controversial Personality in the Press; a Descriptive Study of the Milwaukee Press' Treatment of Father James E. Groppi at the Height of the Open Housing Demonstrations. August 28, September 8, 1967 PN9999 .G85 1972

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America.  Edited by Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard; [chapter on Father Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee] (New York University Press, 2005) E185.61 .G899 2005

The Identification of Strengths in the Black Community of Metropolitan Milwaukee. by R. O. Washington and John Oliver (Milwaukee Urban Observatory, 1976) F589 .M69 N4 1976

The Inner Core--North; a Study of Milwaukee's Negro Community [by] Charles T. O'Reilly [University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee] 1963 F589 .M6 O685

Long Way to Go: Black and White in America. Jonathan Coleman (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997) E185.615 .C643 1997

Media Performance at the Inflection Point: Coverage of Racial Conflict in Milwaukee in 1967. by Genevieve G. Caspari 1982  PN9999 .C378 1982

The People of the Inner Core-North; A Study of Milwaukee's Negro Community. [by] Charles T. Reilly, Willard E. Downing [and] Steven I. Pflanczer (LePlay Research, [1965]) F589 .M6 O7

Summer Mockery. Helen Weber (Aestas Press, 1986) F589 .M657 W42 1986

Study of Community Opinions Concerning the Summer 1967 Civil Disturbance in Milwaukee. (University of Wisconsin, 1968) F589 .M6 S55

Through One City's Eye: Race Relations in America's Heartland. (videorecording) (Milwaukee Public Television; The Duncan Group, Inc., 1999) Raynor Reserves F589 .M69 T47 1999

Who "Riots" and Why? Black and White Perspectives in Milwaukee. (Milwaukee Urban League, 1968) HV6483 .M5 F5x

African American Soldiers in Vietnam

Bloods, An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black veterans; edited by Wallace Terry (Random House, 1984) DS559.5 .B56 1984

The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience. Herman Graham III (University Press of Florida, 2003) DS559.8 .N55 G73 2003

Fighting on two fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War. James E. Westheider (New York University Press, 1997) DS559.8 .B55 W47 1997

MARQCAT Subject headings (to locate more books)

African Americans Segregation
Birmingham ALA Race Relations
Civil rights African Americans Alabama Birmingham
Civil Rights Movements Southern States History 20th Century
Riots United States
Segregation African Americans
Vietnam War 1961-1975 African Americans

Web sites about the author

Bishop, Jesse. "An Interview With Novelist Anthony Grooms"
http://www.highlands.edu/webzine/backbytes/features30/grooms.htm

"Homegrown Terrorism,"  Jabari Asim (review of Bombingham) Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2001, p. C11

The New Georgia Encyclopedia. "Anthony Grooms"
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-492

Tony Grooms reads from Bombingham.
http://www.thedailypage.com/arts/article.php?article=4586

"In the Line of Fire," Ishmael Reed (review of Bombingham) The Village Voice, Nov.28-Dec. 4, 2001
http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0148,reed,30267,10.html



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