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FREEDOM SUMMER," 1964. In one of the early long, hot summers of Negro discontent, a coalition of civil rights groups mounted a spirited campaign to achieve and implement racial justice in Mississippi, the nation's most rigidly segregated state...
...American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands clasped, and with full throats, chanting old Negro spirituals...
...inspire if he empowered himself to act in such cases. Yet, he also sensed the moment and knew that something had to be done. In those days, before Vietnam became Vietnam and denied him the greatness he wanted so badly, he seemed to sense the depth and tenor of Negro despair. Firmly rooted in Southern soil, himself, he knew of the virtual disenfranchisment of Southern Negroes. It tormented him but also drove him on. This is why he seized the moment that March day in 1965 and stood before Congress trying to put into words generations of Negro anguish...
...minister, educator and author who in 1944 left his post as a theology professor at Howard University to help found an interracial, interdenominational church in San Francisco called the Church for Fellowship of All Peoples, and whose many books on religion and race include Deep River: An Interpretation of Negro Spirituals (1946) and The Creative Encounter (1954); after a long illness; in San Francisco...
Peace Is Our Profession is an anthology that combines recollections and poetry by men and women who fought in Viet Nam or demonstrated against it. The book smolders with old indignations; yet there are notable flashpoints. From Herbert Woodward Martin's A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary: "Do not celebrate me when and if I come home. I step around the smallest creature these days." From Poet Muriel Rukeyser: "Cancel war, we were taught./ What is left is peace. . . it is no canceling;/ The fierce and human peace is our deep power/ Born to us of wish...