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Reporting Civil Rights: The LOA Anthology
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REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS
Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963
ISBN: 1-931082-28-6
$40.00 US / $56.00 CAN
996 pages
REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS
Part Two: American Journalism 1963-1973
1-931082-29-4
$40.00 US / $56.00 CAN
986 pages

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.

Contents Volume 1

MARLENE NADLE
The View from the Front of the Bus
The March on Washington: August 1963

RUSSELL BAKER
Capital Is Occupied by a Gentle Army
"Pleased with what they had done": August 1963

E. W. KENWORTHY
200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro
"With the spirit of love": August 1963

CLAUDE SITTON
Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls in Church; Riots Flare; Boys Slain
The Birmingham Church Bombing: September 1963

JAMES D. WILLIAMS
First of 4 Birmingham Bomb Victims Is Buried
At Carole Robertson's Funeral: September 1963

KARL FLEMING
Birmingham: "My God, You're Not Even Safe in Church"
"Who can remain silent?": September 1963

RUTH AND EDWARD BRECHER
The Military's Limited War Against Segregation
"A leadership role": September 1963

HOWARD ZINN
The Battle-Scarred Youngsters
"On the front lines": August 1962-October 1963

MURRAY KEMPTON
Gloria, Gloria
Gloria Richardson: November 1963

MICHAEL THELWELL
The August 28th March on Washington
"On the tortuous road": May-November 1963

HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A Southern City with Northern Problems
Louisville: December 1963

MARC CRAWFORD
The Ominous Malcolm X Exits from the Muslims
"Not without a fight": March 1964

JERRY DEMUTH
Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Fannie Lou Hamer: May 1964

JOHN HERBERS
Martin Luther King and 17 Others Jailed Trying To Integrate St. Augustine Restaurant
St. Augustine: May 1964

PETER DE LISSOVOY
Gambler's Choice in Georgia
C. B. King for Congress: June 1964

CLAUDE SITTON
3 in Rights Drive Reported Missing
Cheney, Goodman, Schwerner: June 1964

SNOW JAMES
"Seeing St. Aug." Proves Exciting
"Strange sights and sounds": June 1964

MARTIN MAYER
The Lone Wolf of Civil Rights
Bayard Rustin: July 1964

LEZ EDMOND
Harlem Diary
"The long, hot summer": July 1964

WILLIAM BRADFORD HUIE
from Three Lives for Mississippi
The Search for the Missing: June-August 1964

NAN ROBERTSON
Mississippian Relates Struggle of Negro in Voter Registration
"Got to be a change": August 1964

CHARLES M. SHERROD
Mississippi at Atlantic City
The Democratic National Convention: August 1964

JEREMIAH S. GUTMAN
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
"Mississippi justice": August 1965

CHRISTOPHER S. WREN
Personal Terror in Mississippi
"Afraid of getting shot?": September 1964

JOHN HERSEY
A Life for a Vote
"The Negroes intend to register: April 1963--September 1964

ALICE LAKE
Last Summer in Mississippi
Mississippi Summer Project: June-October 1964

MICHAEL DURHAM
Ollie McClung's Big Decision
"The right to refuse service": October 1964

LOUIS E. LOMAX
Georgia Boy Goes Home
A Native Son Returns to Valdosta: November 1964

PETER DE LISSOVOY
"This Little Light ..."
"Mixin' in South Georgia": July-November 1964

DAVID NEVIN
A Strange, Tight Little Town, Loath to Admit Complicity
Philadelphia, Mississippi: December 1964

JAMES FARMER
from A Southern Tale
Plaquemine, Louisiana: 1963-1965

MARLENE NADLE
Malcolm X: The Complexity of a Man in the Jungle
"Willing to go all the way": February 1965

PETER KIHSS
Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here
At the Audubon Ballroom: February 1965

GORDON PARKS
"I Was a Zombie Then—Like All Muslims, I Was Hypnotized"
"A time for martyrs": February 1965

ROY REED
Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes
Across Pettus Bridge: March 1965

GEORGE B. LEONARD
Midnight Plane to Alabama
Pilgrimage to Selma: March 1965

ANDREW KOPKIND
Selma: "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
"The decision to march": March 1965

TOM WICKER
Johnson Urges Congress at Joint Session To Pass Law Insuring Negro Vote
The President Addresses the Nation: March 1965

PAUL GOOD
"…It Was Worth the Boy's Dying"
Jimmie Lee Jackson: March 1965

ELIZABETH HARDWICK
Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness
"A hole so deep": March 1965

JIMMY BRESLIN
Changing the South
"This here thing is a revolution": March 1965

RENATA ADLER
Letter from Selma
On the Road: March 1965

JOHN BEECHER
McComb, Mississippi
"If you are a Negro": May 1965

HAYNES JOHNSON
Selma Revisited: 4 Months After Their 'Finest Hour' Rights Forces Are in Disarray
"Bewildered and disillusioned": July 1965

ART BERMAN
Eight Men Slain; Guard Moves In
"A city on fire": Los Angeles, August 1965

ROBERT RICHARDSON
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Eyewitness in Watts: August 1965

JERRY FARBER
"August, 1965"
"A lot of people were smiling": August 1965

HAMILTON BIMS
Deacons for Defense
"Leave the protecting to us": September 1965

ROBERT COLES
Bussing in Boston
"Out of the ghetto": 1964-1965

AUGUST MEIER
On the Role of Martin Luther King
The "Conservative Militant": 1965

CALVIN C. HERNTON
And You, Too, Sidney Poitier!
Sex and Racism in Films: 1966

MIKE THELWELL
Fish Are Jumping an' the Cotton Is High: Notes from the Mississippi Delta
"The heart of Dixie": 1965-1966

JACK NELSON
2 Veteran Rights Leaders Ousted by SNCC
"Further adrift from the mainstream": May 1966

PAUL GOOD
The Meredith March
"One year deeper into frustration": June-July 1966

ROBERT ANALAVAGE
Which Way in Grenada?
"When the marchers departed": August 1966

JAMES H. MEREDITH
Big Changes Are Coming
"Mississippi is everywhere": June-August 1966

ROBERT E. ANDERSON JR.
Welfare in Mississippi: "Tradition" vs. Title
"Drive them out of the state": February 1967

BOB FLETCHER
We're Gonna Rule
Sunflower County, Mississippi: May 1967

GORDON PARKS
Whip of Black Power
Stokely Carmichael: May 1967

DAVID HALBERSTAM
The Second Coming of Martin Luther
"New radicalism": April-May 1967

GEORGE BARNER
We Ain't Taking No More
Newark Riots: July 1967

DALE WITTNER
The Killing of Billy Furr, Caught in the Act of Looting Beer
"When the police treat us like people": Newark, July 1967

SANDRA A. WEST
Riot!—A Negro Resident's Story
"Sights I never dreamed possible": Detroit, July 1967

CAROL SCHMIDT
The White Community Asks Repeatedly, "Why?"
"How can we explain?": July 1967

JIMMY BRESLIN
Breslin on Riot: Death Laughter, but No Sanity
Detroit: July 1967

JON LOWELL
Guerilla War Rips 12th
"Riot-blackened streets": July 1967

BOB CLARK
Nightmare Journey
A photo-journalist in Detroit: July 1967

SOL STERN
The Call of the Black Panthers
"Revolutionary fervor": August 1967

CALVIN TRILLIN
U.S. Letter: Cleveland
The Carl Stokes Campaign: October 1967

EARL CALDWELL
Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis
At the Lorraine Motel: April 1968

GARRY WILLS
Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case!
"A calm new face of power": April 1968

JOAN DIDION
Black Panther
Huey Newton: May 1968

PAUL GOOD
"No Man Can Fill Dr. King's Shoes"—But Abernathy Tries
Ralph Abernathy: May 1968

GILBERT MOORE
from A Special Rage
The Black Panther Party: June 1968

PAT WATTERS
"Keep on A-walking, Children"
The Poor People's Campaign: April-June 1968

STEVE VAN EVERA
Marks After the Campaign
After the demonstration: August 1968

BOB LABAREE
Fairfield Never Had a Negro Official—Until Last Month, When It Elected Six
"People to the polls": September 1968

C. GERALD FRASER
S.N.C.C. in Decline After 8 Years in Lead
"So many factions": October 1968

RICHARD LEVINE
Jesse Jackson: Heir to Dr. King?
Operation Breadbasket: December 1968

TOM WOLFE
from Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
San Francisco: 1968-1969

WILLIE MORRIS
from Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town
"Holding our breath": October 1969-January 1970

RICHARD J. MARGOLIS
The Two Nations at Wesleyan University
At the Malcolm X House: January 1970

KARL FLEMING
The South Revisited After a Momentous Decade
A Reporter Looks Back: August 1970

NORA SAYRE
The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
Black Panthers and White Radicals: September-November 1970

MARSHALL FRADY
Discovering One Another in a Georgia Town
Americus, Georgia: November 1970-February 1971

ALICE WALKER
Staying Home in Mississippi
"It will be My Choice": August 1973