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A Priceless Documentary Of America's Struggle For Civil Rights -- 1America's largest, most continuous, and most pressing domestic issue has been the treatment it has accorded black Americans. Similarly, the most important and valuable social movement in our country in the Twentieth Century was the Civil Rights movement which began, essentially, in the 1940's with WW II, received its focus with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and continued through the 1950s 60...
People often wonder what the difference between history and narrative is. This two volume set of the best in-the-moment writing about the Civil Rights Movement will show you. You'll likely never read a newspaper (or your favorite news app) the same way again. The breadth of coverage is admirable and the balance between pro and anti everything is careful.
The history of the early Civil Rights Movement in the present tense. The first of two volumes on the mid-twentieth century movement (as distinct from the "long civil rights movement" posited by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall), RCM is a sterling collection of newspaper and magazine articles, supplemented by excerpts from books and memoirs. Beginning with A. Phillip Randolph's proposed March on Washington, which led to FDR's Executive Order 8802 banning desegregation in defense industries, the volume chronic...
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...
This ought to be required reading.
#UnderstandingOppressionReporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (Library of America) by Clayborne Carson | The Library of America's two-volume collection of the best reporting from 1941 through 1973, history in its first draft. #civilrightsmovement
I don't think I've ever read a most frustrating book to the end, and there's still a second volume to read!I read this book because all I know about the civil rights era is what the history books have sanitized and related. But reading the articles and essays that came out as the events were happening brought the events to life in a way that, for me, was maddening and depressing to think of how people could treat other humans. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, having seen the horrible ways peo...
Library of America. Excellent anthology of news articles, essays, and excerpts from memoirs on the subject of the civil rights movement. Major writers, including Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, John Steinbeck, and James Baldwin appear. So do columnists like Murray Kempton, Claude Sitton, Anthony Lewis, Carl Rowan, Harrison Salisbury, Hodding Carter and young reporters who became famous journalists / columnists like Hedrick Smith, David Halberstam, Ted Poston. There are also s...
