Eyewitness accounts of three decades of civil rights history. "Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people...

The records consist of the core materials of NAACP files from 1909-1970. Although these materials are only a portion of the total material arranged in the manuscript collection, they detail the Association's structure, activities, and development at the highest organizational level, and document its role in American race relations.

Friend and mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois, outspoken critic of Booker T. Washington, and founder of the American Negro Academy, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) played a pivotal role in later nineteenth-century debates over race and black intellect. Yet compared with the widely available texts of Du Bois and Washington, Crummell's speeches and publications remain relatively inaccessible. Here, for the first time, is a full scholarly edition of Crummell's...

The Black Experience, 1865-1978, is a collection of documents and interpretative writings relating to the history of black people in the United States since the Civil War. The documents illustrate the different attempts by black Americans to achieve an independent economic and political status against a background of white prejudice and fear of economic competition. Explanations and interpretations of white responses to black aspirations and activities...