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MARCH ON WASHINGTON COMMITTEE
Call to Negro America: "To March on Washington for Jobs and Equal Participation in National Defense"
"Until victory comes": May 1941
ROI OTTLEY
Negro Morale
"Seething with resentment": November 1941
TOLLY R. BROADY
"Will Two Good White Men Vouch for You?"
Voter Registration, Alabama: November 1941
BAYARD RUSTIN
Non-Violence vs. Jim Crow
"I have a right to sit here": July 1942
L. O. SWINGLER
Thrown from Train, Attacked
"A simple request": August 1942
STERLING A. BROWN
Out of Their Mouths
"From Massachusetts to Mississippi": November 1942
THOMAS SANCTON
The Race Riots
Detroit and the Nation: July 1943
RALPH ELLISON
Eyewitness Story of Riot: False Rumors Spurred Mob
"All of Harlem was awake": August 1943
LUCILLE B. MILNER
Jim Crow in the Army
"A new Negro will return from the war": February 1944
PAULI MURRAY
A Blueprint for First Class Citizenship
"The spirit of revolt took shape": 1942-1944
LANGSTON HUGHES
Adventures in Dining
"A lawful right": June 1945
CHARLES H. LOEB
Our G.I.'s in S. Pacific Fiercely Resent "Uncle Tom" Roles
"Our Uncle Tomming Negro artists": 1945
WENDELL SMITH
It Was a Great Day in Jersey
Jackie Robinson: April 1946
TOM O'CONNOR
Lynch Law Back in Georgia—4 Murdered
Monroe, Georgia: July 1946
GEORGE MCMILLAN
Race Justice in Aiken
"Talk to me like a man": November 1946
JACK H. POLLACK
Literacy Tests: Southern Style
"It doesn't matter how you answer": May 1947
JAMES PECK
Not So Deep Are the Roots
Journey of Reconciliation: April-September 1947
LILLIAN SMITH
When I Was a Child
"A heavy burden": 1949
GEORGE S. SCHUYLER
Jim Crow in the North
"All over the country": 1949
RALPH MCGILL
Men Who Shame Our State and Flag
Bainbridge, Georgia: August 1949
TED POSTON
Florida's Legal Lynching
Lake County, Florida: September 1949
HOMER A. JACK
Cicero Nightmare
"To preserve white neighborhoods": July 1951
HODDING CARTER
Mrs. Means Married Woman
Courtesy Titles and the Southern White Press: 1951-1952
JAMES POLING
Thurgood Marshall and the 14th Amendment
"Our greatest civil liberties lawyer": 1952
CARL T. ROWAN
from Jim Crow's Last Stand
"The decisive battle": November-December 1953
ROBERT J. DONOVAN
Supreme Court, 9-0, Bans Segregation in Schools
The Court's Decision: May 1954
MARTY RICHARDSON
Charge Two with Lynch Death of 14-Year-Old
The Lynching of Emmett Till: September 1955
MURRAY KEMPTON
He Went All the Way
Moses Wright Testifies: September 1955
DAN WAKEFIELD
Justice in Sumner
"An hour and seven minutes": September 1955
DAN WAKEFIELD
Respectable Racism
The Citizens Council Movement: October 1955
JOE AZBELL
At Holt Street Baptist Church
"The Rosa Parks protest meeting": December 1955
WILLIAM BRADFORD HUIE
The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi
Emmett Till's Killers Tell Their Story: January 1956
MURRAY KEMPTON
"When the Riots Came"
The University of Alabama: February 1956
LANGSTON HUGHES
A Brickbat for Education—A Kiss for the Bedroom in Dixie
"An old, old story": March 1956
L. D. REDDICK
The Bus Boycott in Montgomery
"They have already won": March 1956
TED POSTON
from The Negroes of Montgomery
Montgomery Bus Boycott: June 1956
SAMUEL L. GANDY
Tallahassee Spirit: Tired of Being Pushed Around
Tallahassee Bus Boycott: July 1956
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South
"To hear the voices": 1956
MURRAY KEMPTON
"If You Got the Guts..."
School Integration in Kentucky: September 1956
GEORGE MCMILLAN
The Ordeal of Bobby Cain
Clinton, Tennessee: September, 1956
RICHARD B. STOLLEY
A Sequel to Segregation
Choctaw County, Alabama: October 1956
WILMA DYKEMAN and JAMES STOKELY
Montgomery Morning
"A new experience of democracy": December 1956
TED POSTON
Martin Luther King: Where Does He Go from Here?
"A tough job ahead": April 1957
HARRY L. GOLDEN
A Rabbi in Montgomery
"He could no longer serve": May 1957
RELMAN MORIN
Violence at Central High
Crisis in Little Rock: September 1957
JAMES L. HICKS
"We Were Kicked, Beaten"
"The mob rushed upon us": September 1957
ANTHONY LEWIS
President Sends Troops to Little Rock, Federalizes Arkansas National Guard; Tells Nation He Acted To Avoid Anarchy
Eisenhower Responds: September 1957
JAMES N. RHEA and BEN H. BAGDIKIAN
from We Went South
Louisiana Jim Crow: October 1957
TED POSTON
The 19-Day Ordeal of Minnie Jean Brown
At Central High: February 1958
MURRAY KEMPTON
The Book
A Student's Yearbook: May 1958
HARRY L. GOLDEN
How to Solve the Segregation Problem
"Golden Plans": 1956-1958
DAVID B. BITTAN
Ordeal in Levittown
"A flaming cross" : Pennsylvania, August 1957-August 1958
JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN
from Black Like Me
"The deep shame of it": November 1959
ALBERT L. ROZIER JR.
Students Hit Woolworth's for Lunch Service
Greensboro, North Carolina: February 1960
CLAUDE SITTON
Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear of Wider Unrest in South
The Sit-In Movement: February 1960
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"A Good City Gone Ugly"
The Sit-In Movement Comes to Nashville: March 1960
HARRISON E. SALISBURY
Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham
"A community of fear": April 1960
DAN WAKEFIELD
Eye of the Storm
"The road they have set upon": May 1960
JAMES BALDWIN
They Can't Turn Back
Tallahassee, Florida: May 1960
LOUIS E. LOMAX
The Negro Revolt Against "The Negro Leaders"
"Tired of compromises": 1960
JAMES BALDWIN
Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem
"Until the North changes": 1960
HOWARD ZINN
Finishing School for Pickets
Spelman College: August 1960
JOHN STEINBECK
"Ain't Those Cheerleaders Something"
School Integration, New Orleans: December 1960
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"Good Jelly's" Last Stand
Nashville: January 1961
FRED TRAVIS
The Evicted
Fayette and Haywood Counties, Tennessee: February 1961
JULIAN MAYFIELD
Challenge to Negro Leadership: The Case of Robert Williams
"The only way to win a revolution": 1959-1961
HANNAH LEES
The Not-Buying Power of Philadelphia's Negroes
"Selective Patronage": 1960-1961
STUART H. LOORY
Reporter Tails "Freedom" Bus, Caught in Riot
Freedom Riders Attacked: May 1961
MURRAY KEMPTON
Tear Gas and Hymns
"The Greyhound mob": May 1961
BOB DUKE
2 Mob Victims Ready to Die for Integration
Hospital Interview: May 1961
CHARLAYNE HUNTER
A Walk Through a Georgia Corridor
The University of Georgia: July 1959-June 1961
FRANK HOLLOWAY
Travel Notes from a Deep South Tourist
"Starting right here": June 1961
GEORGE COLLINS
Everybody Eats But Americans
"His Highness is a mite hungry": August 1961
TOM HAYDEN
from Revolution in Mississippi
SNCC: July-October 1961
WILLIAM KENNEDY
Dixie's Race Signs "Gone With the Wind"
Jim Crow Signs: December 1961
TREZZVANT ANDERSON
Over 500 Negro Arrests in Albany
The Albany Movement: November-December 1961
BETTYE RICE HUGHES
A Negro Tourist in Dixie
"Are you riding for us?": November 1961-April 1962
JOHN HERBERS
The Reporter in the Deep South
"Keep the record straight": April 1962
CLAUDE SITTON
Sheriff Harasses Negroes at Voting Rally in Georgia
"In thy sight we are all equal": July 1962
MURRAY KEMPTON
The Hostile Witness
Albany, Georgia: August 1962
W. F. MINOR
Meredith Blocked at Ole Miss
Oxford, Mississippi: September 1962
JAMES L. HICKS
On the Mississippi Warfront: Oxford's a Town All Shook Up
"Stop him!": September 1962
RICK TUTTLE
"It Was War—and Marshals Were Losing"
Under Siege: October 1962
KENNETH L. DIXON
Courthouse Square Is Authentic Picture of Occupied Town
"In Occupied Oxford": October 1962
GEORGE B. LEONARD, T. GEORGE HARRIS, and CHRISTOPHER S. WREN
How a Secret Deal Prevented a Massacre at Ole Miss
The Oxford Crisis: September-October 1962
HOWARD ZINN
Kennedy: The Reluctant Emancipator
Inaction in Albany: December 1961-November 1962
JAMES BALDWIN
Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind
The Fire Next Time: 1962
NORMAN PODHORETZ
My Negro Problem—and Ours
"Sick in our feelings": February 1963
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
King Responds to His Critics: April 1963
LEN HOLT
Eyewitness: The Police Terror at Birmingham
"A cacophony of freedom": May 1963
RAYMOND R. COFFEY
Waiting in the Rain at the Birmingham Jail
The Children's Crusade: May 1963
CLAUDE SITTON
Rioting Negroes Routed by Police at Birmingham
"The demonstrations will go on": May 1963
HEDRICK SMITH
9-Block Area Lies Devastated; Buildings Still Burn After Riot
"After the bombing": May 1963
MICHAEL DORMAN
from We Shall Overcome
Kennedy, King, and Birmingham: May 1963
CLIFF MACKAY
Police Dogs in Ala. Spur N.C. Unrest
"Hundreds of marching feet": May 1963
CLAUDE SITTON
Alabama Admits Negro Students; Wallace Bows to Federal Force
"In the schoolhouse door": June 1963
CLAUDE SITTON
N.A.A.C.P. Leader Slain in Jackson; Protests Mount
Medgar Evers Assassinated: June 1963
FANNIE LOU HAMER, ANNELL PONDER, & JUNE JOHNSON
from Mississippi Black Paper
The Winona Incident: June 1963
TOM DENT
Portrait of Three Heroes
Meredith, Evers, Kennard: January-June 1963
ANNE MOODY
from Coming of Age in Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi: September 1962-June 1963
REESE CLEGHORN
Epilogue in Albany: Were the Mass Marches Worthwhile?
"A long, hard struggle": July 1963
GEORGE W. COLLINS
Blazing Guns Mark Freedom Fight: Embattled Defenders Fire from Rooftops
Cambridge, Maryland: July 1963
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