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BOOKS

Allen, Zita. Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, 1996.

Alonso, Karen. The Alger Hiss Communist Spy Trial: A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.

Archer, Jules. They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglas to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. New York: Viking, 1993.

Banfield, Susan. The Fifteenth Amendment: African-American Men's Right to Vote. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Benson, Sonia G. Korean War: Biographies. Farmington Hills, MI: U•X•L, 2001.

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking Press, 2000.

Cohen, Daniel. Joseph McCarthy: The Misuse of Political Power. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Deitch, Kenneth M. and JoAnne B. Weisman. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Man of Many Hats. Lowell, MA: Discovery Enterprises, 1990.

Dubovoy, Sina. Civil Rights Leaders. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Gaines, Ann Graham. Douglas MacArthur: Brilliant General, Controversial Leader. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.

Goldman, Martin S. Richard M. Nixon: The Complex President. New York: Facts on File, 1998.

Hay, Jeff, ed. Richard Nixon. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2001.

Herda, D.J. Earl Warren: Chief Justice for Social Change. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.

Ingram, Philip. Russia and the USSR: 1905–1991. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Judson, Karen. The Presidency of the United States. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.

Kort, Michael. China Under Communism. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Kort, Michael. The Cold War. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1994.

Kort, Michael. Russia. New York: Facts on File, 1995.

Lusane, Clarence. No Easy Victories: Black Americans and the Vote. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.

Monroe, Judy. The Rosenberg Cold War Spy Trial: A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.

Moss, Francis. The Rosenberg Espionage Case. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000.

Parks, Rosa, with Jim Haskins. My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992.

Rappaport, Doreen. The Alger Hiss Trial. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Rasmussen, R. Kent. Farewell Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of Segregation in America. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Schraff, Anne E. Coretta Scott King: Striving for Civil Rights. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1997.

Schrecker, Ellen. The Age of McCarthyism. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Schuman, Michael. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Leader for Civil Rights. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.

Scott, Robert A. Douglas MacArthur and the Century of War. New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Vernell, Marjorie. Leaders of Black Civil Rights. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000.

Whitfield, Stephen J. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. New York: Free Press, 1988; Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Wilson, Camilla. Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement. New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001.

Winkler, Allan M. The Cold War: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Children's Books, 2001.

Wormser, Richard. The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1865–1954. New York: Franklin Watts, 1999.

WEB SITES

The American 1950s. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html (accessed on August 9, 2002).

Legacy of McCarthyism. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-legacy.html (accessed on August 9, 2002).

The 1950s. http://www.nikemissile.net/Coldwar/1950s.html (accessed on August 9, 2002).

White House Historical Association—Timeline. http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04_history/subs_timeline/a_presidents/frame_a_1950.html (accessed on August 9, 2002).

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