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This volume collects newspaper reports, magazine articles, and book excerpts, published between 1963 and 1973 and dealing with events connected with the African-American civil rights movement in the period between August 1963 and August 1973. Excerpts from books are taken from first editions; in some cases, the excerpts include material that had earlier appeared in periodicals in different form. The pieces included have been arranged in the approximate chronological order of the latest events they refer to or describe.
The following is a list of sources of the texts included in this volume, listed alphabetically by author.
Renata Adler. Letter from Selma: The New Yorker, April 10, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Renata Adler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Robert Analavage. Which Way in Grenada?: The Southern Patriot, August 1966.
Robert E. Anderson Jr. Welfare in Mississippi: Tradition vs. Title VI: New South Spring 1967. Copyright © 1967 by the Southern Regional Council. Reprinted by permission.
Russell Baker. Capital Is Occupied by a Gentle Army: The New York Times, August 29, 1963. Copyright © 1963 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
George Barner. We Ain't Taking No More: New York Amsterdam News, July 22, 1967. Reprinted by permission of the New York Amsterdam News.
John Beecher. McComb, Mississippi: Ramparts, May 1965. Reprinted by permission of Barbara M. Beecher.
Art Berman. Eight Men Slain; Guard Moves In: Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Los Angeles Times Syndicate International. Reprinted by permission.
Hamilton Bims. Deacons for Defense: Ebony, September 1965. Copyright © Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
Ruth Brecher and Edward Brecher. The Military's Limited War Against Segregation: Harper's, September 1963. Copyright © 1963 by Harper's Magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduced by special permission.
Jimmy Breslin. Changing the South: New York Herald-Tribune, March 26, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission; Breslin on Riot: Death, Laughter, but No Sanity: The Detroit News, July 25, 1967. Reprinted by permission of The Detroit News.
Earl Caldwell. Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis: The New York Times, April 5, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Bob Clark. Nightmare Journey: Ebony, October 1967. Copyright © Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
Robert Coles. Bussing in Boston: The New Republic, October 2, 1965. Reprinted by permission of The New Republic, © 1965, The New Republic, Inc.
Marc Crawford. The Ominous Malcolm X Exits from the Muslims: Life, March 20, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Abby London-Crawford.
Peter de Lissovoy. "This Little Light ...": The Nation, December 21, 1964; Gambler's Choice in Georgia: The Nation, June 22, 1964. Reprinted by permission of The Nation.
Jerry DeMuth. Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Nation, June 1, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Jerry DeMuth.
Joan Didion. Black Panther: The Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1968. Reprinted with permission of The Saturday Evening Post, © 1968 BFL&MS, Inc.
Michael Durham. Ollie McClung's Big Decision: Life, October 9, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Michael S. Durham.
Lez Edmond. Harlem Diary: Ramparts, October 1964. Copyright © 1964 by Lez Edmond; reprinted by permission. See note 140.38–141.1 in this volume.
Jerry Farber. August, 1965: Jerry Farber, The Student as Nigger (North Hollywood: Contact Books, 1969), pp. 159–76. Reprinted by permission of Jerry Farber.
James Farmer. From "A Southern Tale": James Farmer, Freedom—When? (New York: Random House, 1965), pp. 3–19. Copyright © 1965 by The Congress of Racial Equality, Inc. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Karl Fleming. Birmingham: "My God, You're Not Even Safe in Church": Newsweek, September 30, 1963; The South Revisited After a Momentous Decade: Newsweek, August 10, 1970. Copyright © 1963, 1970, Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
Bob Fletcher. We're Gonna Rule!: The Movement, June 1967. Reprinted by permission of Bob Fletcher.
Marshall Frady. Discovering One Another in a Georgia Town, Life, February 12, 1971. Copyright © 1971, 1980 by Marshall Frady. Reprinted by permission of the author.
C. Gerald Fraser. S.N.C.C. in Decline after 8 Years in Lead: The New York Times, October 7, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Paul Good. "...It Was Worth the Boy's Dying": The Washington Post, March 22, 1965; The Meredith March: New South, Summer 1966. Reprinted by permission of the Southern Regional Council. "No Man Can Fill Dr. King's Shoes" — But Abernathy Tries: The New York Times Magazine, May 26, 1968. Reprinted by permission of Paul Good.
Jeremiah S. Gutman. Oktibbeha County, Mississippi: Leon Friedman, ed., Southern Justice (New York: Pantheon Books, 1965), pp. 80–87. Reprinted by permission of Jeremiah S. Gutman.
David Halberstam. The Second Coming of Martin Luther King: Harper's, August 1967. Copyright © 1967 by David Halberstam. Reprinted by permission of David Halberstam.
Elizabeth Hardwick. Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness: The New York Review of Books, April 22, 1965. Reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books. Copyright © 1965 NYREV, Inc.
John Herbers. Martin Luther King and 17 Others Jailed Trying To Integrate St. Augustine Restaurant: The New York Times, June 12, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Calvin C. Hernton. And You, Too, Sidney Poitier!: Calvin C. Hernton, White Papers for White Americans (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966), pp.53–70. Copyright © 1966 by Calvin C. Hernton. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
John Hersey. A Life for a Vote: The Saturday Evening Post, September 26, 1964. Reprinted with permission of The Saturday Evening Post, © 1964 BFL&MS, Inc.
William Bradford Huie. From Three Lives for Mississippi: William Bradford Huie, Three Lives for Mississippi (New York: WCC Books, 1965), pp. 193–219. Copyright © 1964, 1965, 1968 by William Bradford Huie. Reprinted by permission of Martha Hunt Huie. Photograph on p. 169 of this volume reprinted by permission of CBS Photo Archives.
Snow James (Stetson Kennedy, pseud.). "Seeing St. Aug." Proves Exciting: The Pittsburgh Courier, June 27, 1964. Reprinted by permission of GRM Associates, Inc., agents for The Pittsburgh Courier. Copyright © 1964 by The Pittsburgh Courier; copyright renewed 1992 by The New Pittsburgh Courier.
Haynes Johnson. Selma Revisited: 4 Months After Their "Finest Hour" Rights Forces Are in Disarray: Washington Star, July 26, 1965. Copyright © 1965, The Washington Post (Washington Star Collection). Reprinted with permission.
Murray Kempton. Gloria, Gloria: The New Republic, November 16, 1963. Reprinted by permission of The New Republic, © 1963, The New Republic, Inc.
E. W. Kenworthy. 200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro: The New York Times, August 29, 1963. Copyright © 1963 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Peter Kihss. Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here: The New York Times, February 22, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Andrew Kopkind. Selma: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round": The New Republic, March 20, 1965. Reprinted by permission of The New Republic, © 1965 The New Republic, Inc.
Bob Labaree. Fairfield Never Had a Negro Official—Until Last Month, When It Elected Six: The Southern Courier, September 21–22, 1968. Reprinted by permission of Robert Labaree.
Alice Lake. Last Summer in Mississippi, Redbook, November 1964.
George B. Leonard. Midnight Plane to Alabama: The Nation, May 10, 1965. Reprinted by permission of The Nation.
Richard Levine. Jesse Jackson: Heir to Dr. King?: Harper's, March 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Harper's Magazine. Reproduced by special permission. Lyrics from "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" within this article copyright © 1964, Duane Music, Inc., and reprinted by permission.
Louis E. Lomax. Georgia Boy Goes Home: Harper's, April 1965. Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Louis Lomax.
Jon Lowell. Guerilla War Rips 12th: The Detroit News, July 26, 1967. Reprinted by permission of The Detroit News.
Richard J. Margolis. The Two Nations at Wesleyan University: The New York Times Magazine, January 18, 1970. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Richard J. Margolis.
Martin Mayer. The Lone Wolf of Civil Rights: The Saturday Evening Post, July 11, 1964. Reprinted with permission of The Saturday Evening Post, © 1964 BFL&MS, Inc.
August Meier. On the Role of Martin Luther King: New Politics, Winter 1965. Copyright © 1992 by August Meier. Reprinted by permission of August Meier.
James H. Meredith. Big Changes Are Coming: The Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1966. Reprinted with permission of The Saturday Evening Post, © 1966 BFL&MS, Inc.
Gilbert Moore. From A Special Rage: Gilbert Moore, A Special Rage (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), pp. 80–87. Copyright © 1971 by Gilbert Moore. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Willie Morris. From Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town. Willie Morris, Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town (New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1971), pp. 28–50. Copyright © 1971 by Willie Morris. Reprinted by permission of Raines & Raines.
Marlene Nadle. The View from the Front of the Bus: The Village Voice, September 5, 1963; Malcolm X: The Complexity of a Man in the Jungle: The Village Voice, February 25, 1965. Copyright © 1963, 1965 by Marlene Nadle. Reprinted by permission of Marlene Nadle.
Jack Nelson. 2 Veteran Rights Leaders Ousted by SNCC: The Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Los Angeles Times Syndicate International. Reprinted by permission.
David Nevin. A Strange, Tight Little Town, Loath to Admit Complicity: Life, December 18, 1964. Reprinted courtesy of David Nevin.
Gordon Parks. I Was a Zombie Then—Like All Muslims, I Was Hypnotized: Life, March 5, 1965; Whip of Black Power: Life, May 19, 1967. Copyright © 1965, 1967 by Gordon Parks. Reprinted by permission of Gordon Parks.
Roy Reed. Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes: The New York Times, March 8, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Robert Richardson. "Burn, Baby, Burn!": Los Angeles Times ("Get Whitey," Scream Blood-Hungry Mobs: August 14, 1965; "Burn, Baby, Burn" Slogan Used as Firebugs Put Area to Torch: August 15, 1965; Childhood Vanishes in Embers During Fearful Curfew Hours: August 16, 1965. Main title supplied for this volume from a phrase within Richardson's August 15 article.)
Nan Robertson. Mississippian Relates Struggle of Negro in Voter Registration: The New York Times, August 24, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Nora Sayre. The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention: Esquire, January 1971. (Title, from a phrase within the article, supplied for this volume in place of "On Politics," the title of Sayre's regular Esquire column.) Copyright © 1996 by Nora Sayre. Reprinted by permission of Rutgers University Press.
Carol Schmidt. The White Community Asks Repeatedly, "Why?": The Michigan Chronicle, July 29, 1967. Reprinted by permission of Carol Schmidt.
Charles M. Sherrod. Mississippi at Atlantic City: Grains of Salt (Union Theological Seminary), October 12, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Charles M. Sherrod.
Claude Sitton. Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls in Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain: The New York Times, September 16, 1963; 3 in Rights Drive Reported Missing, The New York Times, June 22, 1964. Copyright © 1963, 1964 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
Sol Stern. The Call of the Black Panthers: The New York Times Magazine, August 6, 1967. Reprinted by permission of Sol Stern.
Michael Thelwell. The August 28th March on Washington: Michael Thelwell, Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), pp. 57–72. (Originally published as "Les Meandres de la 'Marche'," Présence Africaine [Paris], 1er trimestre 1964). Copyright © 1987 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Reprinted by permission; Fish Are Jumping an' the Cotton Is High: Notes from the Mississippi Delta: Massachusetts Review, Spring 1966. Copyright © 1966, The Massachusetts Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
Hunter S. Thompson. A Southern City with Northern Problems: The Reporter, December 19, 1963. Reprinted by permission of Hunter S. Thompson.
Calvin Trillin. U.S. Letter: Cleveland: The New Yorker, October 14, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Calvin Trillin. Reprinted by permission of Lescher & Lescher, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Steve Van Evera. Marks After the Campaign: The Southern Courier, August 10–11, 1968. Reprinted with permission of Stephen W. Van Evera.
Pat Watters. "Keep on A-walking, Children": New American Review, January 1969. Reprinted by permission of Glenda Watters.
Alice Walker. Staying Home in Mississippi: The New York Times Magazine, August 26, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.; collected in Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1983).
Sandra A. West. Riot! —A Negro Resident's Story: The Detroit News, July 24, 1967. Reprinted by permission of The Detroit News.
Tom Wicker. Johnson Urges Congress at Joint Session to Pass Law Insuring Negro Vote: The New York Times, March 16, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by The New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
James D. Williams. First of 4 Birmingham Bomb Victims Is Buried: The Afro-American (Baltimore), September 28, 1963. Reprinted by permission of the Afro-American Newspapers Archives and Research Center.
Garry Wills. Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case!: Esquire, August 1968. © 1968 by Garry Wills. Reprinted with permission of The Wylie Agency.
Dale Wittner. The Killing of Billy Furr, Caught in the Act of Looting Beer: Life, July 28, 1967. Reprinted courtesy Time, Inc.
Tom Wolfe. From Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers: Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), pp. 119–42. Copyright © 1970 by Tom Wolfe. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Christopher S. Wren. Personal Terror in Mississippi: Look, September 8, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Christopher S. Wren.
Howard Zinn. The Battle-Scarred Youngsters: The Nation, October 5, 1963. Reprinted by permission of The Nation.
Great care has been taken to trace all owners of copyrighted material included in this book; if any have been inadvertently omitted or overlooked, acknowledgement will gladly be made in future printings.
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