Description: Reporting Civil Rights is a two-volume Hardcover slipcase set from the Library of America that covers the reporting in American Journalism from 1941 to 1971Copyright 2003, 1st PrintingLike New condition Full Description (loa.org): This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here, in brilliant and inspiring dispatches from some of the finest reporters in the history of American journalism, is a panoramic portrait of the fight to overthrow segregation in the United States. Nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts, and features by 151 writers—David Halberstam, Carl Rowan, Robert Penn Warren, Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison, and Anne Moody among them—provide vivid firsthand accounts of all the revolutionary events: the rising activism of the 1940s; the Brown decision; the Montgomery bus boycott; Little Rock; the sit-in movement and Freedom Rides; Birmingham, the March on Washington (August 28, 1963), Freedom Summer, and Selma; and the emergence of “Black Power.”
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Book Title: Reporting Civil Rights Part One and Two
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 8.3in
Publisher: Library of America, T.H.E.
Original Language: English
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2003
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Collector's Edition
Item Height: 1.3in
Author: David J. Garrow
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Historical, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: First Printing
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Journalism, African American
Item Width: 5.2in
Item Weight: 24.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 996 Pages
