Civil Rights and Race Relations
Evers, Medgar. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches, Basic Civitas Books, 2005.
Halberstam, David. The Children, Fawcett, 1999.
Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975, Vintage, 2006.
Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, New Press, 2009.
Terkel, Studs. Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, New Press, 1992.
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement, Random House, 2003.
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, Penguin, 1988.
Women’s Roles
Ackmann, Martha. The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Random House, 2003.
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique, W.W. Norton, 1963.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from1830-1970, Scribner, 2002.
Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now, W.W. Norton, 2006.
Southern Cooking
Deen, Paula. Paula Deen’s the Deen Family Cookbook, Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Hernandez, Susan Ray. The Best of Southern Living Cookbook, Oxmoor HOuse, 2009.
Neely, Patrick. Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, Knopf, 2009.
Fiction
Berg, Elizabeth. We Are All Welcome Here, Ballantine, 2007.
Briscoe, Connie. Big Girls Don’t Cry, HarperCollins, 1996.
Johnson, Charles. Dreamer, Scribner, 1999.
Jordan, Hillary. Mudbound, Algonquin Books, 2009.
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Naslund, Sena Jeter. Four Spirits, Harper Perennial, 2004.
Neilson, Melany. Persia Café, St. Martins, 2001.
Nicholas, Denise. Freshwater Road, Pocket Books, 2006.
Aibileen’s Reading List: Books and Authors Mentioned in The Help
Dickinson, Emily. Poems
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Faulkner, William
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Welty, Eudora
The Help Play List: Music of the Times
The Beatles. “Love Me Do”
Cline, Patsy. “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray”
Dylan, Bob. “The Times They Are a-Changin’” and “Only a Pawn in Their Game”
Gore, Leslie. “It’s My Party”
The Rolling Stones. “Time is on My Side”
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man”
Documentaries and Music
Backstairs at the White House, 1979.
Let Freedom Sing, 2009 (CD and DVD).
Eyes on the Prize, 1986, 1990.
Movies
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1973
Cora Unashamed, 2000
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967
In the Heat of the Night, 1967
Imitation of Life, 1959
The Long Walk Home, 1990
Mississippi Burning, 1988
A Raisin in the Sun, 1961
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
Web sites
Voices of Civil Rights
www.voicesofcivilrights.org
Reporting Civil Rights
reportingcivilrights.loa.org
Civil Rights in Mississippi
www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/spcol/crda
Mississippi Heritage
www.visitmississippi.org/cultural_historical
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
www.olemiss.edu/depts/south
Race, Racism and the Law: Examples of Jim Crow Laws
academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm
Jim Crow in America
www.shmoop.com/jim-crow/
Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/
Lynching Statistics by State
www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_lyn_tot-crime-lynchings-total
The Help Website
www.kathrynstockett.com
Books for Kids—Nonfiction
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes, Scholastic, 1999.
Farris, Christine King. March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World, Scholastic, 2008.
Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Holiday House, 2006.
McWhorter, Diane. A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. Scholastic, 2004.
Meltzer, Milton. There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights, Random House, 2001.
Rappaport, Doreen. Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Candlewick, 2006.
Books for Kids—Fiction
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, Scholastic, 1995.
Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Taylor, Mildred D. The Gold Cadillac, Puffin, 1987.
Books for Teens—Nonfiction
Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, Dial, 2003.
Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin. The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine, Clarion, 2004.
Myers, Walter Dean. One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album, Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Books for Teens—Fiction
Armistead, John. The Return of Gabriel, Milkweed, 2002.
Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers, Delacorte, 2008.
Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River, Aladdin, 2009.
Sharenow, Robert. My Mother the Cheerleader, Laura Geringer Books, 2007.