There are a wide range of topics associated with the Civil Rights Movement in Maryland and throughout the United States. Consult the Searching the Catalog page of this guide for tips on locating general resources on the slavery using the UMD online catalog.
You may also browse this page for a selection of books, available in the Maryland Room, on the following topics:
A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America by 
Freedom’s Daughters: the Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by 
Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.’s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws by 
Making Constitutional Law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by 
Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland by 
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by 
Before us Lies the Timber: the Segregated High School of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1927-1960 by 
Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism by 
Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education by 