Introduction /
Tyina L. Steptoe --
The Race Conflict in Arkansas /
Walter White ,
December 13, 1919 --
Condemned Arkansas Rioters Look to Chicago for Help /
Ida B. Wells-Barnett ,
December 13, 1919 --
The Shame of America: Or the Negro's Case against the Republic /
Archibald H. Grimké ,
December 29, 1919 --
Memorandum on Marcus Garvey /
Military Intelligence Division ,
May 5, 1921 --
from Events of the Tulsa Disaster /
Mary E. Jones Parrish ,
1921 --
The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims /
B. C. Franklin ,
1921 --
Oral History Interview on the Tulsa Race /
Otis Clark ,
Massacre, 1921 --
Membership Appeal to the Negro Citizens of New York /
Marcus Garvey ,
July 1921 --
Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in Moore v. Dempsey /
Scipio Africanus Jones ,
September 21, 1921 --
Address in Birmingham, Alabama /
Warren G. Harding ,
October 26, 1921 --
Timely Talk on Race Issue /
Raymond Clapper ,
October 26, 1921 --
The Passage of the Dyer Bill /
James Weldon Johnson ,
February 4, 1922 --
Negro Porter Whipped by Masked Citizens of Abilene /
Colonel Mayfield's Weekly ,
February 18, 1922 --
To the Editor of the Observer /
W. P. Evans ,
May 20 and June 3, 1923 --
Far Away Blues /
George Brooks ,
recorded 1923 --
Report on the Lynching of Sammie Smith /
Walter White ,
December 1924 --
Decision Rendered in Students' Row /
The Rocky Mountain News ,
January 8, 1925 --
Enter the New Negro /
Alain Locke ,
March 1925 --
The Challenge of Detroit /
W.E.B. Du Bois ,
November 1925 --
We Must Fight if We Would Survive /
The New York Amsterdam News ,
November 18, 1925 --
"Not Guilty," Dr. Sweet Tells Jury /
Nettie George Speedy ,
November 28, 1925 --
Why I Stay in Texas and Fight /
Clifton F. Richardson ,
September 24, 1927 --
from All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw /
Ned Cobb ,
1904-8, c. 1930 --
They Shall Not Die! Stop the Legal Lynching: The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures /
Elizabeth Lawson ,
1932 --
Calls Negro Masses to Unite /
The Advocate ,
June 19, 1932 --
What Do You Say About It? /
The Chicago Defender ,
September 10, 1932 --
The Lynching of George Armwood /
Baltimore Afro-American ,
October 28, 1933 --
Scottsboro Youths in Greatest Danger; Organizations Asked to Send Delegates to Congress /
California Eagle ,
July 20, 1934 --
Scottsboro Attorneys in High Court /
Ben Davis, Jr. ,
February 16, 1935 --
Knight Has No Answer to the Scottsboro Defense /
Marguerite Young ,
February 19, 1935 --
Watching the Scottsboro Case in Supreme Court /
Baltimore Afro-American ,
February 23, 1935 --
Highest Court Hears Scottsboro Case /
Louis R. Lautier ,
February 23, 1935 --
Draft Letter to the Editor on the Scottsboro Case /
Grace Mott Johnson ,
April 6, 1936 --
to Anna Damon /
Haywood Patterson ,
October 12, 1937 --
Draft Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt /
Mary McLeod Bethune ,
November 27, 1939 --
"It's Our Country, Too" /
Walter White ,
December 14, 1940 --
Should I Sacrifice To Live "Half-American?" /
James G. Thompson ,
January 31, 1942 --
Why Should We March? /
March on Washington Movement ,
Summer 1942 --
The Gestapo in Detroit /
Thurgood Marshall ,
August 1943 --
Morale Sags at Camp Forrest as Jim Crow Rules /
Deton J. Brooks, Jr. ,
November 6, 1943 --
The Negro Soldier /
James Agee ,
March 27, 1944 --
Negro Marines Win Admiration Of Vets in Southwest Pacific /
Fletcher P. Martin ,
April 7, 1944 --
The Woman Next Door: A Story of Unequal Justice /
Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor ,
1945 --
Equal Justice Under Law /
Earl Conrad, Eugene Gordon, and Henrietta Buckmaster ,
1945 --
to Chauncey Sparks /
Raymond and Rosa Parks ,
March 16, 1945 --
Reporting from Europe 784th Wins Battle Honors In Capturing German Towns /
Theodore Stanford ,
March 31, 1945 --
Democracy Goal of Tan Yanks Abroad /
Theodore Stanford ,
May 19, 1945 --
German Women See Tan Yanks as Men Only /
Theodore Stanford ,
June 9, 1945 --
An American Credo /
Pauli Murray ,
Winter 1945 --
It Was a Great Day in Jersey /
Wendell Smith ,
April 27, 1946 --
Lynch Try Fails on "Daily" Man and Lawyers in Tenn. /
Harry Raymond ,
November 20, 1946 --
Make Lynching a Federal Offense /
Journal of the National Medical Association ,
July 1947 --
from Coming of Age in Mississippi /
Anne Moody ,
1947-48 --
Speech to the Democratic National Convention /
Hubert H. Humphrey ,
July 14, 1948 --
Declaration of Principles /
Birmingham Convention of States' Rights Democrats ,
July 17, 1948 --
from Killers of the Dream /
Lillian Smith ,
1949 --
Message from the NAACP to the Negro Voters of Harris County /
Lonnie E. Smith and Christia V. Adair ,
August 21, 1950 --
Dissent in Briggs v. Elliott /
Julius Waties Waring ,
June 23, 1951 --
Acceptance Speech as Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party /
Charlotta Bass ,
March 30, 1952 --
Negro Family to Remain Despite Flaming Cross /
Portland Challenger ,
May 20, 1953 --
Resents Ike's Taking Credit for Winning DC Restaurant Case /
Alice A. Dunnigan ,
June 20, 1953 --
Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka /
Earl Warren ,
May 17, 1954 --
from The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It /
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson ,
1953-55 --
When I Will Get to Be Called a Man /
Big Bill Broonzy ,
October 1955 --
Declaration of Constitutional Principles /
Southern Senators and Representatives ,
March 12, 1956 --
Alabama Pickets Rock-Roll Troupe /
The Chicago Defender ,
May 21, 1956 --
How to Solve the Segregation Problem /
Harry Golden ,
May-June 1956 --
from Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities /
Paul Robeson ,
June 12, 1956 --
Mr. Muhammad Speaks: Who Is the Original Man? /
Elijah Muhammad ,
July 28, 1956 --
We Are Rising from the Dead Since We Heard Messenger Muhammad... /
Malcolm X ,
December 15 and 22, 1956 --
from Oral History Interview on Life in Houston in the 1950s and 1960s /
Paulette Williams Grant --
Predicts End To Housing Bias, Migrations /
The Chicago Defender ,
September 13, 1958 --
Bigger Than A Hamburger /
Ella Baker ,
May 1960 --
from Negroes with Guns /
Robert F. Williams ,
1962 --
Negro Voting in Louisiana /
Congress of Racial Equality ,
c. 1962-63 --
Louisiana Voter Registration Procedures ,
c. 1963 --
George Wallace /
Inaugural Address as Governor of Alabama ,
January 14, 1963 --
Violence Stalks Voter-Registration Workers in Mississippi /
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ,
March 12, 1963 --
Statement on State Court Injunction Against Demonstrations /
Fred Shuttlesworth ,
April 14, 1963 --
Ask Yourself This Important Question: What Have I Personally Done to Maintain Segregation? /
Dallas County Citizens Council ,
June 9, 1963 --
Report to the American People on Civil Rights /
John F. Kennedy ,
June 11, 1963 --
Official Program for the March on Washington ,
August 28, 1963 --
Speech at the March on Washington, Original Text and Speech as Delivered /
John Lewis ,
August 28, 1963 --
Labor Report Shows: Negro Women Are Improving Their Status /
Sue Cronk ,
March 28, 1964 --
The Ballot or the Bullet /
Malcolm X ,
April 3, 1964 --
Program of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ,
c. June 1964 --
Remarks in the Senate on the Civil Rights Bill /
Mike Mansfield, Richard Russell, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Everett McKinley Dirksen ,
June 10, 1964 --
Testimony to the Credentials Committee Democratic National Convention /
Fannie Lou Hamer ,
August 22, 1964 --
An Exchange on Urban Riots and Policing /
Robert Penn Warren and Bayard Rustin ,
1964 --
Dr. King Rebuts Hoover Charges /
John Herbers ,
November 20, 1964 --
Sample Alabama Literacy Test Questions ,
c. 1964-65 --
Debate at the Cambridge Union /
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley ,
February 18, 1965 --
Speech in Congress on the Voting Rights Act /
John Conyers ,
July 8, 1965 --
CORE Voter Registration Training Materials for Louisiana ,
c. 1965 --
School Trustees Set Talk on Negro Hiring /
Palm Springs Desert Sun ,
September 30, 1965 --
Greater Effort Pledged on Hiring of Negro Teachers /
Palm Springs Desert Sun ,
October 1, 1965 --
Statement on Black Power /
Vine City Project ,
Spring 1966 --
How the Black Panther Party Was Organized /
John Hulett ,
May 22, 1966 --
Speech on Black Power /
Stokely Carmichael ,
October 29, 1966 --
Ten-Point Program of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense ,
May 15, 1967 --
Opinion in Loving v. Virginia /
Earl Warren ,
June 12, 1967 --
from Oral History Interview on Lyndon B. /
Thurgood Marshall ,
Johnson, 1941-67 --
Mob Violence in Milwaukee /
Madison Capital Times ,
August 30, 1967 --
to Father James Groppi /
A Teacher ,
August 30, 1967 --
Statement at a Press Conference /
Henry Maier ,
August 31, 1967 --
to Father James Groppi /
Leonard D. Mills ,
November 4, 1967 --
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: from the Summary: Introduction, The Basic Causes ,
February 29, 1968 --
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Police and the Community ,
February 29, 1968 --
Have Sanitation Workers A Future? /
Community on the Move for Equality ,
Spring 1968 --
Oral History Interview on Lyndon B. Johnson /
Whitney M. Young ,
1955-68 --
Father Groppi: A Modern Priest Looks at a Racist Society /
Annette Chandler ,
March 5, 1969 --
Speech at Howard University /
Shirley Chisholm ,
April 21, 1969 --
Future of Civil Rights Worries Old Guard as Gains Are Noted /
Nick Kotz ,
December 25, 1972 --
Common Fear, Safety for Students, Ripples through North Dorchester, Roxbury as Busing Becomes Real /
Ron Hutson ,
June 27, 1974 --
from Dissent in Milliken v. Bradley /
Thurgood Marshall ,
July 25, 1974 --
Race, Schools and Riots in Boston /
Thomas Pettigrew ,
November 1974 --
Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention /
Barbara Jordan ,
July 12, 1976
