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IssueVol. 026 Issue 012 (December 1 1962)
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Paid articleA CENTURY OF STRUGGLE
A Century of Struggle For this one month The Progressive abandons the World Crisis to its fate in favor of looking inward. The occasion is the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation...
Paid articleA LETTER FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY
THE WHITE HOUSE washington October 15, 1962 Dear Morris: I am glad to know that The Progressive is planning a special number to mark the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. In issuing...
Paid articleCIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Franklin, John Hope
CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY by JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN It was inevitable that civil rights should have become a central theme in the history of the United States. Long before Thomas Jefferson...
Paid articleLINCOLN AND THE PROCLAMATION
Current, Richard N.
LINCOLN and the PROCLAMATION by RICHARD N. CURRENT Tt was a dull, dark day in Washing-ton, that New Year's Day of 1863. Visitors trooped into the White House from the mud and slush outside. For...
Paid articleTHE SOUTH IN PERSPECTIVE
Woodward, C. Vann
THE SOUTH IN PERSPECTIVE by C. VANN WOODWARD the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation inevitably draws fresh attention to the South, the historical theater for the drama of...
Paid articleCALL TO A NEW BATTLE
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Call to a New Battle by ADLAl E. STEVENSON Just a hundred years ago, America reached a turning point. It was five days after Antietam. In the South Mountain defiles and on the fields around...
Paid articleA LETTER TO MY NEPHEW
Baldwin, James
A Letter to My Nephew by JAMES BALDWIN Dear James: I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and my brother. I...
Paid articleTHE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Randolph, A. Philip
The Unfinished Revolution by A. PHILIP RANDOLPH The Negro's struggle to achieve equal employment opportunities over the past one hundred years is of more than historical or commemorative interest....
Paid articleTHE STRUGGLE FOR OPEN HOUSING
Levenson, Frances; Fisher, Margaret
THE STRUGGLE FOR OPEN HOUSING by FRANCES LEVENSON and MARGARET FISHER A ny objective analysis of racial housing patterns in the United States leads to the inescapable conclusion that residential...
Paid articleTHE MOB AND THE GHOST
Smith, Lillian
the Mob and the Ghost by LILLIAN SMITH The South is a heavy word, dark with misunderstandings, edged with defenses, streaked with love and hate. I shall not begin with it. I shall instead return...
Paid articleTHE LUMINOUS PROMISE
King, Martin Luther Jr.
THE LUMINOUS PROMISE by MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MANKIND through the ages has been engaged in a ceaseless struggle to give dignity and meaning to human life. If, in its efforts to achieve this...
Paid articleAT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL
MacLeish, Archibald
At the Lincoln Memorial A Poem for the Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation by ARCHIBALD MacLEISH Slow Potomac, tarnished water Silent already with the sense of sea And still the stain...
Paid articleA NEW SOUTHERNER
DABBS, JAMES McBRIDE
A New Southerner by JAMES McBRIDE DABBS A strange and exciting thing is hap-pening in the South. I do not mean the recent Mississippi fracas. That was exciting but hardly strange. We had seen it...
Paid articleTHE BLACK MUSLIMS
Lincoln, C. Eric
The Blick Muslims by C. ERIC LINCOLN THE Black Muslim movement had its beginning in the black ghetto of Detroit. The time was 1930. It was the first year of the great depression, an era of hunger,...
Paid articleWHY THE RESISTANCE?
Golden, Harry
Why the Resistance? by Harry Golden When Marvin Griffin was gover-nor of Georgia, he had a favorite radio message for his constituents. He used to say the problem besetting the South as a result...
Paid articleFOOTNOTES ON AN ANNIVERSARY
Kempton, Murray
FOOTNOTES ON AN ANNIVERSARY by MURRAY KEMPTON THERE is a Harlem in New York City, and there is a Harlem in Albany, Georgia. That is where the ordinary Negro lives out his life. There are two lines...
Paid articleTHE NOT SO SOLID SOUTH
Snelling, Paula
The Not So Solid South by PAULA SNELLING In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was one Southerner, and only one—George Washington Cable, the journalist and novelist—who spoke publicly, clearly,...
Paid articleMUSIC AND NEGROES
Lawson, Warner
Music and Negroes by WARNER LAWSON Out of the frustration, suffering, and resentment of human bondage, the Negro slave added the distinctive heritage of a great folk music to the white culture of...
Paid articleTHE UNFINISHED EMANCIPATION
Tindall, George B.
The Unfinished Emancipation by GEORGE B. TINDALL THE challenging battle cry, "Free by '63," seems unhappily to have subsided in the last few years before the realization that the centennial of the...
Paid articlePAPERBACK PLUMS
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann The American Negro and race relations have been the subjects of a steadily mounting number of paperback studies. Here is a sampling of good titles now...
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