Articles on the Emmett Till Case --
"Coming of age in Mississippi" / Anne Moody --
Letter from the Women's Political Council to the Mayor Montgomery, Alabama --
Interview with Rosa Parks --
"Movement gathers momentum" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., at Holt Street Baptist Church --
"At Holt Street Baptist Church" / Joe Azbell --
Resolution of the citizen's mass meeting, December 5, 1955 --
"Violence of desperate men" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Desegregation at last" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. --
"How children learn about race" / Kenneth B. Clark --
"Atlanta Declaration" / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --
"Black Monday: segregation or amalgamation ... America has its choice" / Tom P. Brady --
Brown v. Board of Education - the implementation decision --
"Long shadow of Little Rock" / Daisy Bates --
"Is violence necessary to combat injustice? For the positive: Williams says "we must fight back'" / Robert F. Williams --
"Social organization of non-violence" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Interview with Franklin McCain --
"Appeal for human rights" --
Student nonviolent coordinating committee statement of purpose" --
"Bigger than a hamburger" / Ella J. Baker --
"Conference on the sit-ins" / Ted Dienstfrey --
"In pursuit of freedom" / William Mahoney --
Interview with Robert Zellner --
"Eve of nonviolent revolution?" / James M. Lawson, Jr. --
Organizing in Albany, Georgia / Charles Sherrod --
Letter from the Albany movement to Albany City Commission / January 23, 1962 --
Interview with Bernice Reagon --
Letter from Albany merchant Leonard Gilberg to Albany Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, July 23, 1962 --
"Birmingham: people in motion" / Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights --
Wiretap transcript of the phone conservation between Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, April 15, 1963 --
"Letter from Birmingham City Jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Birmingham Truce Agreement, May 10, 1963 --
President John F. Kennedy's nationally televised speech, June 11, 1963 --
Original text of speech to be delivered at the Lincoln Memorial / John Lewis --
"Mississippi: 1961-1962" / Robert Moses --
"To praise our bridges" / Fannie Lou Hamer --
"Interim report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, April 16, 1963" --
Freedom summer" / Sally Belfrage --
"Mississippi at Atlantic City" / Charles M. Sherrod --
Student nonviolent coordinating committee brief report on Guinea / James Forman --
"Trip" / John Lewis and Donald Harris --
To Mississippi youth" / Malcolm X --
"From protest to politics: the future of the Civil Rights Movement" / Bayard Rustin --
"Early attempts at betterment" / Amelia Platts Boynton --
"Selma, Alabama" / Bernard Lafayette --
Letter from a Selma, Alabama, jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Midnight plane to Alabama: journey of conscience" / George B. Leonard --
SNCC-SCLC relation / James Forman --
Personal letter from Muriel and Art Lewis to her mother, Selma, Alabama, March 19, 1965 --
Our God is marching on!" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Message to the grassroots" / Malcolm X --
"Malcolm" / Sonia Sanchez --
"Black belt election: new day a'coming / Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton --
Lowndes County Freedom Organization pamphlet --
"How the Black Panther Party was organized" / John Hulett --
"From Black consciousness to Black power" / Cleveland Sellers with Robert Terrell --
"What we want" / Stokely Carmichael --
"Black power: a voice within" / Ruth Turner Perot --
"Proposal by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the Development of a Nonviolent Action Movement for the Greater Chicago Area" --
Demands placed on the door of Chicago City Hall by Martin Luther King, Jr., July 10, 1966 --
"Agreement of the Subcommittee to the Conference on Fair Housing convened by the Chicago Conference on Religion and race" --
Interview with Linda Bryant Hall --
"Profiles of disorder ... Detroit" --
"Man's life / Roger Wilkins --
"Taking over" / Carl B. Stokes --
Interview with Thompson J. "Mike" Gaines --
Interview with Geraldine Williams --
Founding of the Black Panther Party" and "patrolling" / Huey P. Newton --
"Seize the time" / Bobby Seale --
Interview with Dolores Torres --
"JHS 271 teacher tells it like he sees it" / Charles S. Isaacs --
Interview with Karriema Jordan --
"Anti-Semitism?-a statement by the teachers of Ocean Hill-Brownsville to the people of New York" --
"Time to break silence" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Conversation with Martin Luther King" --
I see the promised land" / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"My last letter to Martin" / Ralph David Abernathy --
"On the case in Ressurrection City" / Charlayne A. Hunter --
"...'I'm the greatest, ' a poem" / Cassius Clay --
"Greatest" / Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham --
"Muhammad Ali - the measure of a man / Freedomways --
Interview with Paula Giddings --
Open letter sent to Howard President James N. Nabrit --
Interview with Tony Gittens --
"Nature and needs of the Black university" / Gerald McWorter / Gerald McWorter --
"It's nation time" / Amiri Baraka --
"We must pave the way: an independent Black political thrust" / Richard Hatcher --
"National Black political agenda. The Gary Declaration: Black politics at the crossroads" --
Interview with Akua Njere (Deborah Johnson) --
"Search and destroy: a report by the Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and the police" / Roy Wilkins and Ramsey Clark, Chairmen --
"FBI's efforts to disrupt and neutralize the Black Panther Party" --
"Angela Davis: an autobiography" --
Letter from George Jackson --
Attica prisoner's demands --
Negotiations and failure" / Herman Badillo and Milton Haynes --
"Brothers of Attica" / Richard X. Clark --
Statement to the Boston School Committee, June 11, 1963 --
"Death at an early age" / Jonathan Kozol --
Tallulah Morgan et al. v. James W. Hennigan et al. --
Commencement address at Howard University / Lyndon B. Johnson --
Inaugural address by Mayor Maynard Jackson --
"Can Atlanta succeed where America has failed? An exclusive Atlanta magazine interview with Mayor Maynard Jackson as he completes his first 500 days in office" --
Amicus Curiae Brief in Regents of University of California v. Allan Bakke --
Regents of University of California v. Allan Bakke (Justice Marshall's dissent), June 28, 1978 --
"Whites say I must be on Easy Street" / Nell Irvin Painter --
"Historic look at our neighborhoods" / Black Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida --
"Death watch" / Marvin Dunn --
"Confronting racial isolation in Miami / U.S. Commission on Civil Rights --
Interview with Edward Gardner --
Harold Washington's announcement of candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Chicago --
"Harold Washington: uniting Chicago for all people" --
Harold Washington's inaugural speech --
"Of Harold Washington" / Gwendolyn Brooks --
"Address by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, " Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984 --
Interview with Unita Blackwell --
"Platform presentation by Mayor Henry G. Cisneros, " Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984 --
Address to the National College and University Student Conference / Shen Tong --
Address by Nelson Mandela.