 Reporting
Civil Rights - Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963
Drawn from eyewitness newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary
books, Reporting Civil Rights offers a panoramic perspective on
the struggle to overthrow segregation in the United States. In this
volume, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray, and Bayard Rustin
record the determination of African-Americans in the 1940s to oppose
racial injustice; Murray Kempton and William Bradford Huie report on the
lynching of Emmett Till; Ted Poston presents an early portrait of Martin
Luther King, Jr.; Relman Morin and John Steinbeck witness their terrors
of mob rage; David Halberstam, James Baldwin , and Louis Lomax describe
the wildlife spread of the sit-in movement. Robert Penn Warren's
Segregation is included in its entirety, as is Martin Luther King
Jr's classic defense of civil disobedience, "Letter from Birmingham
Jail." Contains a chronology of the civil rights movement, biographical
profiles and 32 pages of photographs of the journalists, and notes. A
companion volume covers 1963 through 1973.
The Library of America, 1-931082-28-6, $40.00 |
