Greenwood, Mississippi, 1964. Police photographer's photo of civil rights demonstration, with Christopher Wren (Look Magazine) at far right. Police sent the photograph to Wren as a warning.

Courtesy Christopher Wren.

Selected excerpts from articles that appear in Reporting Civil Rights are available in the "Reporters and Writers" section of this web site.

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.

Karl Fleming, "My God, You're Not Even Safe in Church." Newsweek, September 30, 1963.

Howard Zinn, "The Battle-Scarred Youngsters." The Nation, October 5, 1963.

Marc Crawford, "The Ominous Malcolm X Exits from the Muslims." Life, March 20, 1964.

John Herbers, "Martin Luther King and 17 Others Jailed Trying To Integrate St. Augustine Restaurant." The New York Times, June 12, 1964.

Martin Mayer, "The Lone Wolf of Civil Rights." The Saturday Evening Post, July 11, 1964.

Alice Lake, "Last Summer in Mississippi." Redbook, November 1964.

George B. Leonard, "Midnight Plane to Alabama." The Nation, May 10, 1965.

Robert Richardson, "'Burn, Baby, Burn' Slogan Used as Firebugs Put Area to Torch." Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1965.

Calvin C. Hernton, "And You, Too, Sidney Poitier!" from White Papers for White Americans, (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966).

James H. Meredith, "Big Changes Are Coming." Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1966.

Pat Watters, "Keep on A-walking, Children." New American Review, January 1969.

Tom Wolfe, from Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970).

Marshall Frady, "Discovering One Another in a Georgia Town." Life, February 12, 1971.

Alice Walker, "Staying Home in Mississippi." The New York Times Magazine, August 26, 1973.