Reporting Civil Rights Journalism Part 1 Hardcover SC Library Of America SEALED

Reporting Civil Rights Journalism Part One Hardcover w SC The Library Of America SEALED The Library of America REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 P UBLISHED FOUR decades after the March on Wash- ington, this landmark two-volume anthology chronicles over thirty tumultuous years in the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equal rights. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973 offers a uniquely panoramic perspective on the fight to overthrow segregation in the United States. It brings together the work of over 150 diverse writers, rep resenting the best in American journalism. This riveting volume follows the rise of the modern civil rights move ment from A. Philip Randolph's defiant 1941 call for a protest manch on Washington to the sammer of 1963 and the eve of the march that finally shook the nation's.