Barboza, Steven, ed. The African American Book of Values (Double-day, 1998).
Blackwell, Unita. Taped interview with the Children’s Defense Fund at the former Alex Haley Farm, CDF’s center for spiritual renewal and leadership development.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963 (Simon and Schuster, 1998), Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–1965 (Touchstone, 1999). Tape of speech at Children’s Defense Fund forum at the Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tenn.
Carter, Mae Bertha. Taped interviews with Children’s Defense Fund at Haley Farm and in her home in Drew, Miss., 1999.
Children’s Defense Fund. A Chronology of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF, 1998).
Clark, Septima. Ready from Within. Edited by Cynthia Stokes Brown (African World Press, Inc., 1990).
Coles, Dr. Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges (Scholastic, 1995).
Curry, Constance. Silver Rights (Algonquin, 1995).
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (W. W. Norton, 1996).
Gide, André. The Immoralist. Translated by Stanley Applebaum (Dover, 1996).
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). Henderson, Michael. The Forgiveness Factor (Grosvenor Books, 1996).
Holy Bible.
Homer. The Odyssey, tr. by W. H. D. Rouse (Mentor, 1937), and tr. by Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1999).
Horton, Myles, with Herbert and Judith Kohl, contributors. The Long Haul: An Autobiography (Doubleday, 1990).
Kennedy, Robert F. Speeches obtained from John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass.
Lanker, Brian. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989).
Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America (Vintage, 1972).
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Ballantine, 1964).
Marsh, Charles. God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton Univ. Press, 1958).
Mays, Benjamin E. Quotable Quotes (Vintage, 1983).
Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Plume, 1994).
National Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Putting Children and Families First: A Challenge for Our Church, Nation, and the World,” a pastoral letter, 1991.
Outward Bound. Readings from the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School (Rockland, Maine).
Proctor, Dr. Samuel DeWitt. Tape of sermon at CDF’s Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry held at the Alex Haley Farm.
Quinn, Tracey, ed. Quotable Women of the Twentieth Century (Bill Adler Books, Inc., 1999).
Smith, Lillian. How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith. Edited by Margaret Rose Gladney (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996).
The Talmud.
Taylor, Dr. Gardner. Tape of sermon at CDF’s Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry held at the Alex Haley Farm.
Thurman, Howard. Deep Is the Hunger (Harper, 1951), The Growing Edge (Friends United Press, 1974), Jesus and the Disinherited (Beacon Press, 1996).
Tolstoy, Leo. A Calendar of Wisdom. Translated by Peter Sekirin (Scribner, 1997).
Washington, James Melvin, ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harper, 1991).
Young, Andrew. Tape of the Children’s Defense Fund forum at the Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tenn., and tape of the CDF meeting at the Alex Haley Farm.
Zinn, Howard. Declarations of Independence (HarperCollins, 1990), SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Greenwood, 1985).