Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Photos xv
• Foreword xvii
• Introduction xix
• Part One - Origins of Freedomways 1
• 1 - Behold the Land, No. 1, 1964 6
• 2 - The Battleground Is Here, No. 1, 1971 12
• 3 - Southern Youth's Proud Heritage, No. 1, 1964 16
• 4 - Memoirs of A Birmingham Coal Miner, No. 1, 1964 21
• 5 - "Not New Ground, But Rights Once Dearly Won," No. 1, 1962 26
• 6 - Honoring Dr. Du Bois, No. 2, 1968 31
• 7 - Ode to Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1976 40
• Part Two - Reports from the Front Lines: Segregation in the South 47
• 8 - The United States and The Negro, No. 1, 1961 50
• 9 - A Freedom Rider Speaks His Mind, No. 2, 1961 59
• 10 - What Price Prejudice? On the Economics of Discrimination, No. 3, 1962 65
• 11 - The Southern Youth Movement, No. 3, 1962 69
• 12 - Nonviolence: An Interpretation, No. 1, 1963 72
• 13 - Lorraine Hansberry at The Summit, No. 4, 1979 77
• 14 - "We'Re Moving!" No. 1, 1971 82
• 15 - Birmingham Shall Be Free Some Day, No. 1, 1964 84
• 16 - Tremor in the Iceberg: The Mississippi Summer Project, No. 2, 1965 87
• 17 - The Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization, No. 2, 1965 94
• 18 - Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, No. 2, 1965 97
• 19 - The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi, No. 2, 1966 100
• Part Three - International Solidarity 108
• 20 - The American Negro and The Darker World, No. 3, 1968 111
• 21 - Address to the United Nations, No. 1, 1961 119
• 22 - What Happened in Ghana? The Inside Story, No. 3, 1966 127
• 23 - Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator, No. 3, 1972 132
• 24 - Socialism Is Not Racialism, No. 2, 1970 141
• 25 - Selected Speeches and Writings on Peace, No. 1, 1971 145
• 26 - The Giant Stirs, No. 1, 1966 150
• 27 - The Freedom Movement and the War in VIetnam, No. 4, 1965 152
• 28 - A Time to Break Silence, No. 2, 1967 167
• 29 - Muhammad Ali: The Measure of A Man, No. 2, 1967 176
• 30 - The Gi Movement Vs. The War: A Symposium, No. 4, 1970 179
• 31 - Three African Freedom Movements, No. 1, 1962 183
• 32 - The African - American Manifesto on Southern Africa, No. 4, 1976 191
• 33 - South Africa and the Usa, No. 4, 1976 198
• 34 - Northern Ireland Through Black Eyes, No. 1, 1982 200
• Part Four - Moving North 205
• 35 - Anti-Semitism and Black Power, No. 1, 1967 207
• 36 - Address to Labor: Who Built this Land? No. 1, 1971 210
• 37 - Three Challenges to Organized Labor, No. 4, 1972 217
• 39 - School Desegregation: Seeking New VIctories Among the Ashes, No. 1, 1977 229
• 40 - The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action: Some Implications for the Future, No. 1, 1978 233
• 41 - Negro Women in Freedom'S Battles, No. 4, 1967 237
• 42 - Racism and Contemporary Literature on Rape, No. 1, 1976 243
• References 247
• 43 - Biology and Gender: False Theories about Women and Blacks, No. 1, 1977 248
• 44 - Bangs and Whimpers: Black Youth and the Courts, No. 3, 1975 253
• 45 - Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner, No. 4, 1971 259
• 46 - The Death Penalty: Continuing Threat to America's Poor, No. 1, 1971 262
• Part Five - Pioneers of Black Studies 267
• 47 - Conference of Encyclopedia Africana, No. 4, 1963 269
• 48 - Negroes in the American Revolution, No. 2, 1961 273
• 49 - Black/Indian Origins Of The Fight for Democracy, No. 2, 1984 281
• 50 - A Review of the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, No. 1, 1969 284
• Part Six - Culture and the Cause of Black Freedom 289
• 51 - The Negro Woman in American Literature, No. 1, 1966 291
• 52 - Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1971 299
• 53 - Prologue, No. 1, 1972 300
• 54 - Rites of Passage, No. 3, 1970 304
• 55 - The Lion in Daniel's Den, No. 1, 1971 306
• 56 - For Beautiful Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader, No. 2, 1971 308
• 57 - Rock Eagle, No.4, 1971 310
• 58 - Facing the Way, No. 4, 1975 313
• 59 - The Abduction of Saints, No. 4, 1975 315
• 60 - My Early Days in Harlem, No. 3, 1963 317
• 61 - Langston Hughes: He Spoke Of Rivers, No. 2, 1968 321
• 62 - An Old Woman Remembers, No. 3, 1963 324
• 63 - A Letter from Brooklyn, No. 3, 1964 326
• 64 - Poems of Agostinho Neto, No. 1, 1976 328
• 65 - Eventide, Kumasi, No. 2, 1970 330
• 66 - We Are of the Same Sidewalks, No. 3, 1980 331
• 67 - Lorraine Hansberry: On Time! No. 4, 1979 335
• 68 - The Once and Future VIsion of Lorraine Hansberry, No. 4, 1979 340
• 69 - At the Emmy Time! No. 1, 1980 345
• 70 - The Welcome Table: A Short Story, No. 3, 1970 349
• 71 - The First Day (A Fable After Brown): A Short Story, No. 4, 1974 354
• 72 - A Review of God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene, No. 2, 1978 357
• 73 - Jazz No. 2, 1962 360
• 74 - Black Women Singers-Artists, No. 1, 1966 364
• 75 - Will Jazz Survive? Thoughts on the State of the Great American Art, No. 4, 1983 368
• 76 - Martin Luther King: A Personal Tribute, No. 1, 1972 378
• Afterword 380