Freedomways reader: prophets in their own country

Foreword / Julian Bond

Introduction / Esther Cooper Jackson

Pt. I. Origins of Freedomways / J. H. O'Dell

1. Behold the Land / W. E. B. Du Bois

2. Battleground Is Here / Paul Robeson

3. Southern Youth's Proud Heritage / Augusta Strong

4. Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner / Henry O. Mayfield

5. "Not New Ground, but Rights Once Dearly Won," / Louis E. Burnham

6. Honoring Dr. Du Bois / Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. Ode to Paul Robeson / Pablo Neruda

Pt. 2. Reports from the Front Lines: Segregation in the South / J. H. O'Dell

8. United States and the Negro / W. E. B. Du Bois

9. Freedom Rider Speaks His Mind / Jimmy McDonald

10. What Price Prejudice? On the Economics of Discrimination / Whitney M. Young, Jr.

11. Southern Youth Movement / Julian Bond

12. Nonviolence: An Interpretation / Julian Bond

13. Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit / James Baldwin

14. "We're Moving!" / Paul Robeson

15. Birmingham Shall Be Free Some Day / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

16. Tremor in the Iceberg: The Mississippi Summer Project / Eric Morton

17. Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization / Staughton Lynd

18. Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer / J. H. O'Dell

19. Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi / Lawrence Guyot and Mike Thelwell

Pt. 3. International Solidarity / Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl

20. American Negro and the Darker World / W. E. B. Du Bois

21. Address to the United Nations / Kwame Nkrumah

22. What Happened in Ghana? The Inside Story / Shirley Graham Du Bois

23. Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator / Shirley Graham Du Bois

24. Socialism Is Not Racialism / Julius K. Nyerere

25. Selected Speeches and Writings on Peace / Paul Robeson

26. Giant Stirs / W. E. B. Du Bois

27. Freedom Movement and the War in Vietnam / Robert S. Browne

28. Time to Break Silence / Martin Luther King, Jr.

29. Muhammad Ali: The Measure of a Man / Editorial

30. GI Movement vs. the War: A Symposium / Ralph David Abernathy, Howard Levy and J. H. O'Dell

31. Three African Freedom Movements / Our Special Correspondent

32. African-American Manifesto on Southern Africa

33. South Africa and the USA / Editorial

34. Northern Ireland Through Black Eyes / Jean Carey Bond

Pt. 4. Moving North / Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl

35. Anti-Semitism and Black Power / Ossie Davis

36. Address to Labor: Who Built This Land? / Paul Robeson

37. Three Challenges to Organized Labor / Jesse L. Jackson

38. Education and Black Self-Image / Alvin F. Poussaint

39. School Desegregation: Seeking New Victories Among the Ashes / Derrick A. Bell

40. Bakke Case and Affirmative Action: Some Implications for the Future / Haywood Burns

41. Negro Women in Freedom's Battles / Augusta Strong

42. Racism and Contemporary Literature on Rape / Angela Y. Davis

43. Biology and Gender: False Theories About Women and Blacks / Dorothy Burnham

44. Bangs and Whimpers: Black Youth and the Courts / Bruce McM. Wright

45. Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner / Frank E. Chapman, Jr.

46. Death Penalty: Continuing Threat to America's Poor / Lennox S. Hinds

Pt. 5. Pioneers of Black Studies / Ernest Kaiser

47. Conference of Encyclopedia Africana / W. E. B. Du Bois

48. Negroes in the American Revolution / Shirley Graham Du Bois

49. Black/Indian Origins of the Fight for Democracy / William Loren Katz

50. Review of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual / Ernest Kaiser

Pt. 6. Culture and the Cause of Black Freedom / Ruby Dee

51. Negro Woman in American Literature / Alice Childress, Paule Marshall and Sarah E. Wright

52. Paul Robeson / Gwendolyn Brooks

53. Prologue / Audre Lorde

54. Rites of Passage / Audre Lorde

55. Lion in Daniel's Den / Nikki Giovanni

56. For Beautiful Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader / June Jordan

57. Rock Eagle / Alice Walker

58. Facing the Way / Alice Walker

59. Abduction of Saints / Alice Walker

60. My Early Days in Harlem / Langston Hughes

61. Langston Hughes: He Spoke of Rivers / Arna Bontemps

62. Old Woman Remembers / Sterling A. Brown

63. Letter from Brooklyn / Derek Walcott

64. Poems of Agostinho Neto / Marga Holness

65. Eventide, Kumasi / Keith E. Baird

66. We Are of the Same Sidewalks / Lorraine Hansberry

67. Lorraine Hansberry: On Time! / John Oliver Killens

68. Once and Future Vision of Lorraine Hansberry / Alex Haley

69. At the Emmy Time! / Ruby Dee

70. Welcome Table: A Short Story / Alice Walker

71. First Day (A Fable After Brown): A Short Story / Alice Walker

72. Review of God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene / Loyle Hairston

73. Jazz / Max Roach

74. Black Women Singers-Artists / Abbey Lincoln

75. Will Jazz Survive? Thoughts on the State of the Great American Art / Playthell Benjamin

76. Martin Luther King: A Personal Tribute / Harry Belafonte

Afterword / David Levering Lewis.