Presents a collection of essays selected from the "New York Times" that looks at race relations in American society.
Content Note
From slavery to emancipation -- The Chaplin case -- The colored race -- Arrest of a fugitive slave -- An Indian encounter -- Letter of the Chinamen to his Excellency, Gov. Bigler -- Douglas vs. Douglass, Settlement of Nebraska -- Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case : the position of slavery in the Constitution -- Emancipation : President Lincoln's proclamation -- The President's proclamation -- The consummation ! : slavery forever dead in the United States / by the New York Times -- The South and the Negro vote / from the Charleston Mercury -- The conduct and attitude of the Southern opposition -- What next? -- Plain truths for the Negroes -- Woman's rights and the fashions : a rebuke from "Sojourner Truth" -- Louisiana's separate car law / by the New York Times -- The promise of equality -- Race problem conference : speakers at Montgomery discuss lynching -- Extermination of Blacks said to be inevitable Is the Turk a White man? -- Socialist advises Negroes to strike -- Written on the screen -- A woman's protest -- Negroes mob photo play -- Bar Negro women's vote -- Better relations between races sought at a student conference in the South -- New racial ideas taught / by the New York Times -- West coast moves to out Japanese / Lawrence E. Davies -- Upholds Japanese in citizens' right / Lawrence E. Davies -- Fifty years of crusading for the Negro in America / Lombard C. Jones -- How to prevent riots -- Move to curb racial strife -- Housing plan sets tenancy standards / by the New York Times -- Big Negro colonies worry West-coast / George Streator -- 'Wetback' patrol to be stepped up : 500 officers to augment unit of 256 on Mexico border to halt alien influx / by the New York Times -- The Civil Rights era -- Racial issues stirred by Mississippi killing / John N. Popham -- Negroes' boycott cripples bus line / by the New York Times -- Militia sent to Little Rock : school integration put off / Benjamin Fine -- Negro protests lead to store closings / by the New York Times -- Negro rejected at Mississippi U. : U.S. seeks writs / Claude Sitton -- Violence in Mississippi has roots in slavery furor of the 1830's : racial views are probably unshaken / Claude Sitton -- Negro planning jobless march / by the New York Times -- New York's racial unrest : Negroes' anger mounting / Layhmond Robinson -- "I have a dream" / James Reston -- Birmingham bomb kills 4 Negro girls in church : riots flare : 2 boys slain / Claude Sitton -- Civil rights victory -- Incident at Selma -- Dr. King deplores 'long cold winter' on the rights front -- The ghetto explodes in another city / by the New York Times -- Marriage curbs by states scores / Fred P. Graham -- Slaying recalls series of deaths that have marked rights fight / Seth S. King -- One step forward, two steps back -- Desegregation course charted by legal unit after bus ruling / C. Gerald Fraser -- Standing up for civil rights -- An 'Aberration' or police business as usual? / by the New York Times -- Officer says beaten man resisted / Seth Mydans -- Los Angeles policemen acquitted in taped beating / Seth Mydans -- Officers in Bronx fire 41 shots, and an unarmed man is killed / Michael Cooper -- Broader palette allows for subtler census portrait / Eric Schmitt -- U.S. schools turn more segregated, a study finds / Diana Jean Schemo -- Sept. 11 attack narrows the racial divide Somini Sengupta -- Obama elected President as racial barrier falls / Adam Nagourney -- A lynching in Brooklyn / by the New York Times -- For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's success stirs pride / David Gonzalez -- Deep tensions rise to surface after Ferguson shooting / Tanzina Vega and John Eligon -- When will Black lives matter in St. Louis / Nicole D. Nelson -- The heartbeat of racisim is denial / Ibram X. Kendi -- There's never been a Native American Congresswoman : that could change in 2018 / Julie Turkewitz -- Korematsu, notorious Supreme Court ruling on Japanese internment, is finally tossed out / Charlie Savage.