The struggle for racial equality: a documentary record

✍ Scribed by Henry Steele Commager

• Publisher: Harper
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Series: The Works of Henry Steele Commager
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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