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The struggle for racial equality: a documentary record
Henry Steele Commager-
Frontmatter
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Preface (page vii)
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1. An American Dilemma (Gunnar Myrdal, page 1)
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2. The Civil War Amendments, 1868-70 (page 4)
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3. The Freedman's Case (George Washington Cable, page 6)
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4. Frederick Douglass Calls on the Freedman to Organize for Self-Protection (Frederick Douglass, page 13)
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5. "The Agitation of Questions of Social Equality is the Extremest Folly" (Booker T. Washington, page 17)
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6. "Mr. Washington Represents the Old Attitude of Submission" (W. E. B. DuBois, page 22)
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7. "Separate But Equal" (Henry Billinsg Brown & John Marshall Harlan, page 29)
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8. "To Secure These Rights"
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9. Equality in the Armed Services, 1948 (Harry S. Truman, page 42)
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10. Equal Opportunities for All: Truman's Rights Program (Harry S. Truman, page 44)
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11. "Separate Educational Facilities are Inherently Unequal", 1954 (Earl Warren, page 49)
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12. "Brown v. Topeka is a Naked Exercise of Judicial Power" (Southern Declaration on Integration, page 55)
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13. An Argument that the Negro is Inherently Inferior (Carleton Putnam, page 58)
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14. Southern Extremists Deplore "Black Monday," 1954
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15. The White Citizens Council Lets Loose the Winds of Fear (James Graham Cook, page 75)
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16. Crisis in Little Rock
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17. The Court Vindicates the NAACP, 1958: (John Marshall Harlan, page 93)
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18. Crisis in Montgomery (Martin Luther King, Jr., page 97)
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19. Justice Douglas Vindicates the Negro Sit-ins, 1961 (William Douglas, page 105)
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20. Policy and Reality in Negro Employment (William Peters, page 109)
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21. A Southern Student is Loyal to the Traditions of the Old South (Margaret Long, page 117)
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22. Equal Rights: The Unending Struggle
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23. A Night of Terror in Plaquemine, Louisiana, 1963 (James J. Farmer, page 134)
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24. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Writes a Letter From the Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr., page 145)
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25. "We Face a Moral Crisis," June, 1963 (John F. Kennedy, page 163)
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26. Tragedy in Birmingham (James Reston, page 169)
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27. Official Lawlessness in the South (Anthony Lewis, page 173)
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28. Official Lawlessness: A Documentary Record (page 183)
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29. A Student Crusade to Mississippi, 1964: Letters Home (Elizabeth Sutherland, editor, page 193)
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30. The End of the Poll Tax: The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, 1964 (page 204)
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31. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (page 205)
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32. President Johnson Asks Congress to Redeem the Fifteenth Amendment, 1965 (Lyndon B. Johnson, page 208)
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33. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (page 214)
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34. The Right to Vote: The Unending Struggle
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35. The Dark Ghetto of Harlem (Kenneth Clark, page 231)
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36. Watts (Arna Bontemps & Jack Conroy, page 236)
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37. "The Barriers to Freedom Are Tumbling Down," 1965 (Lyndon B. Johnson, page 245)
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38. The Emergence of Black Power (Stokely Carmichael, page 251)
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Published: 1967
Publisher: Harper