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Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s /

Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s / [compiled by] Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn. - New York : Bantam Books, c1990. - xxviii, 692 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.


1. Emmett Till, 1955---

"I Wanted the Whole World to See"--

2. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 "Like a Revival Starting"---

3. The Little Rock Crisis, 1957-1958 "I Had Cracked the Wall"----

4. Student Sit-ins in Nashville, 1960

"A Badge of Honor"----

5. Freedom Rides, 1961 "Sticks and Bricks"----

6. Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962

"The Mother Lode"---

7. James Meredith Enters Ole Miss, 1962 "Things Would Never Be the Same"---

8. Birmingham, 1963 "Something Has Got to Change"---

9. Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-1963 "The Reality of What We Were Doing Hit Me"---

10. The March on Washington, 1963 "They Voted with Their Feet"---

11. The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing, 1963

"You Realized How Intense the Opposition Was"---

12. Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964



"Representation and the Right to Participate"----

13. Selma, 1965

"Troopers, Advance"----



14. Malcolm X (1925-1965)

"Our Own Black Shining Prince!"---



15. The Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966

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"Vote for the Panther, Then Go Home"----

16. The Meredith March, 1966



"Hit Them Now"----

17. Chicago, 1966



"Chicago Was a Symbol"----

18. Muhammad Ali, 1964-1967

"I Am the Greatest"----

19. King and Vietnam, 1965-1967




"His Philosophy Made It Impossible Not to Take a Stand"---

20. Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-1967



"We Wanted Control"---

21. Detroit, 1967



"Inside of Most Black People There Was a Time Bomb"---

22. The Election of Carl Stokes, 1967

"We Had to Be Organized"----



23. Howard University, 1967-1968

"You Saw the Silhouette of Her Afro"---



24. King's Last Crusade, 1967-1968

"We've Got Some Difficult Days Ahead"---



25. Resurrection City, 1968 "The End of a Major Battle"---

26. Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1968 "Everything Became More Political"----

27. The Black Panthers, 1968-1969 "How Serious and Deadly the Game"---

28. Attica and Prisoners' Rights, 1971 "There's Always Time to Die"---

29. The Gary Convention, 1972 "Unity Without Uniformity"----

30. Busing in Boston, 1974-1976

"As if Some Alien Was Coming into the School"---

31. Atlanta and Affirmative Action, 1973-1980 "The Politics of Inclusion"

Epilogue: From Miami to America's Future For Further Reading "Eyes on the Prize" Project Staff and Funders


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African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans--History--1877-1964--Sources.
Oral history.


United States--Race relations--Sources.

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