Reporting civil rights.
Series: The Library of America ;; 137-138
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam; Library of America, The
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Press coverage; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Civil rights movements -- Press coverage -- United States; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- Sources; United States -- Race relations -- Press coverage
Genres: Sources.
Description: From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, Lillian Smith, Gordon Parks, Murray Kempton, Ted Poston, Claude Sitton, and Anne Moody. A newly researched chronology of the movement, a 32-page insert of rare journalist photographs, and original biographical profiles are included in each volume.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. American journalism, 1941-1963; title: pt. 2. American journalism, 1963-1973.