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Tables of Contents for A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States 1960-1968
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xv
Angela Y. Davis
Introduction
xix
The Name ``Negro''
3
9
Richard B. Moore
The Rebellion of African-American Students: 1960 by Eyewitness Reports
12
17
Tallahassee, Florida
13
4
Patricia Stephens
Portsmouth, Virginia
17
2
Edward Rodman
Nashville, Tennessee
19
4
Paul Saprod
Orangeburg, South Carolina
23
3
Thomas Gaither
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
26
3
Major Johns
Sit-Ins and the NAACP, by the Editors of The Crisis
29
1
The Black Press When the ``Sit-Ins'' Begin
30
3
Benjamin F. Clark
Racial Intermarriage, by the Editors of The Crisis
33
1
An Appeal for Human Rights, by Atlanta University Students
34
2
The Cry for Freedom
36
2
Thurgood Marshall
Sit-Ins and Pickets
38
7
Mazette Watts
``To Rid America of Racial Discrimination''
45
1
Ella J. Baker
A Nation-Wide Student Conference by Several Speakers
46
3
Al Rozier
47
1
Bernard Lee
48
1
Rev. Wyatt T. Walker
49
1
``The Beauty of the Movement''
49
1
A. Keith Guy
The Negro Revolt Against the `Negro Leaders'
50
10
Louis E. Lomax
Along the NAACP Battlefront by the Editors of The Crisis
60
5
A Plea for Straight Talk Between the Races
65
2
Benjamin E. Mays
Strategy to Survive: January-May 1961
67
4
James Meredith
A Petition to the Honorable John F. Kennedy
71
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Federal Government and Racist Discrimination, by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
74
5
The Black Muslims in America
79
6
C. Eric Lincoln
Equality Now: The President Has the Power
85
9
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from the Magnolia, Mississippi, Jail
94
1
Robert Moses
The Kennedy Administration Is Weak
95
1
Roy Wilkins
The Southern Black Press Responds to the Freedom Riders
96
4
Benjamin F. Clark
``My Sight Is Gone, But My Vision Remains''
100
2
Henry Winston
Henry Winston
102
1
W. E. B. Du Bois
On Joining the Communist Party
102
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Struggle for the Liberation of the Black Laboring Masses in this Age of a Revolution of Human Rights
105
3
A. Philip Randolph
The Albany Movement
108
5
James Forman
On Vietnam, U.S. Should Remember France's ``Humiliating Defeat''
113
2
Robert S. Browne
A Proposal of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
115
5
James Forman
Police Brutality: Mississippi by Several Survivors
120
3
The Travel Journal of a Black Woman in the South
123
5
Betty Rice Hughes
Separation or Integration: A Debate
128
21
Malcolm X
James Farmer
The Tuskegee Voting Story
149
5
Charles G. Gomillion
``Entire Equality Must and Will Be''
154
4
Ralph J. Bunche
``The Day I Became A Man''
158
1
Charles McLaurin
A Challenge To Artists
159
5
Lorraine Hansberry
Not Progress but Freedom
164
6
Loren Miller
A Letter to My Nephew
170
4
James Baldwin
On the Encyclopaedia Africana
174
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Fire Next Time
177
7
James Baldwin
Ten Demands in Nashville
184
1
Black Citizens
What We Want
185
1
Elijah Muhammad
Harlem Rent Strike Rally, Speeches
186
4
James Baldwin
John Lewis
``Those Who Want to Be Free''
190
2
Robert P. Moses
The Birmingham Manifesto
192
2
F. L. Shuttlesworth
N. H. Smith
Imprisoned Children ``Serve Their Time,'' by New York Times Correspondents
194
3
A New Solidarity in Struggle for Human Dignity
197
3
Robert C. Weaver
The Funeral of Medgar W. Evers
200
7
James E. Jackson
Birmingham: The Moment of Truth
207
7
Bayard Rustin
The Police Terror in Birmingham
214
5
Len Holt
Letter from Birmingham City Jail
219
17
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Harlem Is A Condition of Life,'' by the Editors of Freedomways
236
1
Notes from Southern Diaries by Various Authors
237
5
``An Outcry for Justice''
242
1
A. Philip Randolph
On the March on Washington
243
1
Bayard Rustin
Malcolm X
``A Massive Moral Revolution''
243
1
A. Philip Randolph
The March on Washington
244
1
Roy Wilkins
A Serious Revolution
245
5
John Lewis
I Have A Dream
250
4
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eulogy for the Martyred Children
254
3
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bedford-Stuyvesant: A Land of Superlatives
257
6
Milton A. Galamison
``Now or Never: Anger Mounting''
263
8
Lakhmond Robinson
Birmingham: Deliberate Mass Murder
271
2
James E. Jackson
The Negro Revolt
273
4
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
The Black Press on President Kennedy's Assassination
277
1
Marion Butts
``More Rats Than People''
278
2
Jesse Gray
``Having a Baby Inside Me Is the Only Time I Feel Alive,'' by a Black Woman Talking to Robert Coles
280
2
What Is Wrong?, by a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
282
1
Literacy and Liberation
282
4
Septima P. Clark
The Movement, So Far
286
2
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
``Is This America?''
288
3
Fannie Lou Hamer
My Trip to Mecca
291
1
Malcolm X
``Overwhelming Spirit of True Brotherhood by People of All Colors and Races''
292
1
Malcolm X
``All Men As Brothers''
293
2
Malcolm X
The Battle of San Francisco
295
6
John Pittman
Defending the Flag in Ghana
301
3
Adger E. Player
The Churches Will Follow
304
3
Benjamin E. Mays
On Black Nationalism
307
1
Malcolm X
``A Temporary Change of Emphasis''
308
3
Roy Wilkins
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
A. Philip Randolph
``What Do They Want?''
311
2
Langston Hughes
``I Am Sick and Tired''
313
1
Dave Dennis
``There's Got to Be a Change''
314
1
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Convention
314
4
Charles M. Sherrod
The Southern Black Press and 1964 Developments
318
2
Benjamin F. Clark
The Democratic Party's Betrayal
320
2
James Forman
A Plea for ``Moderation''
322
4
Rev. J. M. Jackson
Try To Live There Just One Day
326
2
Fannie Lee Chaney
The Albany Movement: Birth and Early History
328
6
Slater King
Freedom-Here and Now
334
3
Gloria Richardson
Medical Mission to Mississippi
337
3
V. McKinley Wiles
From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement
340
3
Bayard Rustin
``I Still Wince''
343
1
Roy Wilkins
The Cry of the Ghetto, compiled
344
8
Kenneth B. Clark
The Protest Against Housing Segregation
352
2
Loren Miller
Malcolm Knew He Was a ``Marked Man''
354
1
Theodore Jones
Our Shining Black Prince
355
2
Ossie Davis
The Urban League and Its Strategy
357
2
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
``Don't You Realize I'm A Negro?''
359
3
James Forman
Visiting Africa and Living in Mississippi
362
2
Fannie Lou Hamer
``Crisis in Rights''
364
1
A. Philip Randolph
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The War in Vietnam Must Be Stopped
364
1
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Keep My Mouth Shut''
365
2
Wesley R. Brazier
The Watts Uprising
367
1
Roy Wilkins
Watts Burns With Rage
368
5
James E. Jackson
Supporting Armed Self-Defense
373
6
Charles R. Sims
Past Victories, Future Needs: Albany, Georgia
379
4
Slater King
Desegregating Schools: ``One of the Problems,'' by Unknown Black Parent in Deep South
383
1
The Threshold of a New Reconstruction
384
3
J. H. O'Dell
Next Step the North
387
6
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Traveling Jim Crow
393
2
Mahalia Jackson
The Killing of an Agitator
395
2
James Forman
Opposing the U.S. War in Vietnam, by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
397
2
Creating the Black Panther Movement
399
6
John Hulett
The Black Panther Party Platform
405
1
Huey Newton
``Tired Of Being Walked Over''
406
1
Millie Thompson
``The Poor People of Mississippi Is Tired,''
406
1
Unita Blackwell
``Action Before It Is Too Late''
407
1
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi
408
3
Lawrence Guyot
Mike Thelwell
``Despair and Hatred Continue to Brew''
411
2
Bayard Rustin
``The Kids Play With Rats,'' by Black People in Cleveland, Ohio
413
10
``Black Power,'' Statement by the National Committee of Negro Churchmen
423
6
``We Have to Get Black Power''
429
4
Stokely Carmichael
To Wipe Out Slums, Ghettoes, and Racism, by the Chicago Freedom Movement
433
4
``Bring Power to Both Black and White''
437
1
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
``Too Long Have We Allowed White People...,'' Position Paper of SNCC
438
2
Meet the Press: A Discussion
440
1
Carl Rowan
``Black Power'' and Coalition Politics
441
4
Bayard Rustin
Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom
445
9
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Racism and the Elections: The American Dilemma, 1966, by The National Committee of Negro Churchmen
454
4
On Becoming a Muslim
458
5
Muhammad Ali
On the Vietnam War
463
1
Muhammad Ali
``I Raised My Hand, as High as I Could''
463
2
Fannie Lou Hamer
Battling Racism in Northern California
465
8
John Pittman
Black Power and the American Christ
473
4
Vincent Harding
We Are a Political Unit
477
2
James Forman
A Time to Break Silence
479
10
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Disobedience May Be Necessary
489
4
Martin Luther King, Jr.
California's Bay Area, Sworn Testimony
493
11
Higher Education and the Negro
504
5
Benjamin E. Mays
``No Respect for the People Here,'' by Residents of Buffalo, New York
509
1
Uprisings in Newark and Detroit, by the Editors of Freedomways
510
2
Developing African-American Nationalist Feelings: The Newark Conference of 1967, the Delegates' Resolution
512
1
Huey Must Be Set Free!, by the Black Panther
513
3
A Christmas Sermon on Peace
516
3
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where do We Go From Here?
519
9
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Deepening the American Consciousness''
528
1
A. Philip Randolph
Unity and Militancy For Freedom and Equality
529
9
Henry Winston
The Platform of the Black Panther Party
538
1
Bobby Seale
Honoring Dr. Du Bois
539
3
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``The Ugly Atmosphere''
542
1
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``I See the Promised Land''
542
2
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Warning Martin Luther King, Jr.
544
1
Roy Wilkins
Showdown for Nonviolence
545
9
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``It Is Already Very, Very Late''
554
17
James Baldwin
Index
571