Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868
Suggested Readings

• Bartley , Numan V. The Creation of Modern Georgia. 2nd ed. University of Georgia Press: Athens, 1990.

• Bennett, Lerone Jr. Black Power U.S.A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1967.

• Bentley, George R. A History of the Freedmen's Bureau. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1955.

• Cimbala, Paul. Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

• Coleman, Kenneth. Georgia History in Outline. Rev. ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.

• Conway, Alan. The Reconstruction of Georgia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1966.

• Cox, La Wanda and John H., eds. Reconstruction the Negro and the New South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.

• Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, 1982.

• Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

• Formwalt, Lee W. "The Camilla Massacre of 1868: Racial Violence as Political Propaganda." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 71, No. 3 ( 1987): 400-426.

• Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was In the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. Edited with a foreword by Jonathan Grant. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

• Kousser, J. Morgan and James M. McPherson, eds. Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

• Lane, Mills, ed. Standing Upon the Mouth of a Volcano: New South Georgia, A Documentary History. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1993.

• McFeely, William S. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.

• Nieman, Donald G., ed. The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Freedom. Introduction by Donald G. Nieman. African American life in the Post-Emancipation South v. 2. New York : Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994.

• O'Donovan, Susan E. "Philip Joiner, Black Republican Leader," Journal of Southwest Georgia History 4 (1986): 56-71.

• Rable, George C. But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

• Spence, Margaret and Anna M. Fleming. History of Mitchell County. [1976?].

• Thompson, Clara Mildred. Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872. 1915. Introduction by William Bailey Willisford. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1971.

Suggested Readings List by Jeanette Morgan

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