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A Priceless Documentary Of America's Struggle For Civil Rights -- 2This book is the second volume of the Library of America's documentary, journalistic history of the Civil Rights Movement. The first volume covers the years 1941-1963 and takes the story up to the March on Washington in August, 1963. The second volume covers a shorter time span, 1963 - 1973 with an equally momentous series of events. Volume II is easily important enough for its own short notice and review here.The centerpiece of
The first volume of the Library of America RCR tracks the rising energy of the Civil Rights Movement; volume 2 chronicles the decline into the chaos of the late 60s. It's a depressing read, but there's nothing that can be done about that; it's simply what happened. I would have liked just a bit more indication that the critiques of the chauvinism of the Black Power Movement were beginning as the story unfolded; see Toni Cade's anthology The Black Woman for the supplement. But most of the problem...
The second part of the Library of America's two volume anthology of journalism on the Civil Rights movement is as excellent as the first part. This volume covers the March on Washington, the slaying of three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the desegregation marches in Birmingham, Selma, St. Augustine, and other southern cities, the riots in Watts, Harlem, Newark, and Detroit, the rise and fall of Black Nationalism (SNCC, Malcolm X, the Panthers), King’s efforts to focus on eco...
My S.F. Chronicle review from 2003:To try to reckon with the power of this remarkable, two-volume collection from the Library of America, "Reporting Civil Rights," it might be helpful to do a little thought experiment: Imagine what it would do to George W. Bush to read these two fat volumes. The question is not whether the book would change Bush. Oh no. That much is certain. The question is whether, in a real sense, he could even survive the experience. Bush, like many Americans, has staked much...
