Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137)

American Journalism 1941-1963

Compiled by  Clayborne Carson , David J. Garrow , Bill Kovach and Carol Polsgrove
Reporting Civil Rights Vol. 1 (LOA #137)

First published for the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, this Library of America volume along with its companion chronicles over thirty tumultuous years in the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equal rights.

The first volume follows the rise of the modern civil rights movement from A. Philip Randolph’s defiant 1941 call for a protest march on Washington to the summer of 1963 and the eve of the march that finally shook the nation’s conscience. Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Pauli Murray, and Bayard Rustin record the growing determination of African-Americans in the 1940s to oppose racial injustice; Murray Kempton and William Bradford Huie report on the lynching of Emmett Till; Ted Poston offers an inside look at the courage and…

$51.00
January 6, 2003
Select a Retailer: