Bibliography and Resources

Bibliography

Secondary

    • Blejwas, Emily. The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2019.

    • Bower, Anne. African American Foodways : Explorations of History and Culture. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

    • Cooley, Angela Jill. To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

    • Edge, John T. The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.

    • Edge, John T. “The Welcome Table.” Oxford American (2000). http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/hiddenkitchens/stories/week13/edgearticle.pdf.

    • Ferris, Marcie Cohen. The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Accessed February 13, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469617695_ferris (Links to an external site.)

    • Hansan, J.E. “Jim Crow laws and racial segregation”. Social Welfare History Project. 2011.http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/

    • Kelley, Robin D. G. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. New York: Free Press, 1994.

    • McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

    • Merriman, Scott. “Gilmore v. City of Montgomery.” The Encyclopedia of Alabama. 21 Oct 2015. http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3690

    • Nadasen, Premilla. Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2015.

    • Nokow, Julie. “Segregation (Jim Crow).”The Encyclopedia of Alabama. 14 November 2019. http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1248.

    • Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. Getting What We Need Ourselves : How Food Has Shaped African American Life. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

    • Williams-Forson, Psyche A. Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs : Black Women, Food, and Power. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

    • Wilson, Kurt H. “Interpreting the Discursive Field of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Holt Street Address,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 8, no. 2 (2005): 299–326.

    • Zafar, Rafia. Recipes for Respect : African American Meals and Meaning. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2019.

Primary

    • Interview with Georgia Gilmore, conducted by Blackside Inc. for the documentary Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) in 1979, Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection

    • Interview with Georgia Gilmore, conducted by Blackside Inc. for the documentary Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965), February 17, 1986, Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection

    • MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, MLKJP, GAMK, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., T-18.

    • Robinson, Jo Ann. “Local Activists Call for a Bus Boycott in Montgomery,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed February 16, 2021, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1140 (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.).

    • Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, David J. Garrow, and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It : the Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

    • “Section of the city code of Montgomery, Alabama, requiring segregation on buses.”1952. Alabama Department of Archives and History.

    • Transcript, State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr., No. 7399 (Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1956), pp. 482-507.


Additional Resources

The list below include links to databases,podcasts, and journals focused on African American and Southern food history and culture.