To Secure These Rights

Further Reading

Articles

• Billington, Monroe. “Civil Rights, President Truman and the South.” Journal of Negro History 58, no. 2 (April 1973): 127–139.
• Fredrickson, Kari. “‘The Slowest State’ and ‘Most Backward Community’: Racial Violence in South Carolina and Federal Civil-Rights Legislation, 1946–1948.” South Carolina History Magazine 98, no. 2 (1997) 177–202.

Books

• Gardner, Michael R. Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
• McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Web Sites

• “Truman and Civil Rights.” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Web site. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/military_deseg/civilrights.html.