African American History

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Manuscripts

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FBI wiretap transcript of Martin Luther King, Jr. telephone conversation, May 21, 1963 (text)

and replica of original:

FBI wiretap transcript of Martin Luther King, Jr. telephone conversation, May 21, 1963 (PDF)

The letters, memos, and documentary records of such key individuals as Thurgood Marshall, Charles H. Houston, James Weldon Johnson, Walter F. White, Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Eleanor Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and Mary McLeod Bethunefeatured in these selectionsare sure to engage beginning researchers. Topics of research include the slave trade, significant events in the civil rights movement, the NAACP's legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19^th and early 20^th century peonage cases in the south, and much more. Full bibliographic citations are included for each document to encourage responsibility for authenticating sources of interpretation.

Sample topics include:

• The final and most crucial NAACP victory against Texass whites-only primary election law in 1944
• The work of Mary McLeod Bethune and the "Black Cabinet" during the New Deal
• The surge of civil rights activity throughout America in the 1960s
• The 1963 March on Washington and the standoff with Governor George C. Wallace on integration of the University of Alabama, as seen by the Kennedy White House
• The spread of urban race riots in the mid-1960s, the March on Selma, and the legislative path of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as viewed by the Johnson White House
• The Justice Department files on the landmark Alonzo Bailey peonage case in "New South" Alabama
• The NAACP response to the 1946 Columbia, Tennessee, race riot, accomplishing the first federal engagement of vigilante violence in the South since Reconstruction
• The Sweatt v. Painter University of Texas integration case occasioning the NAACPs defense of integration against tendencies of black separatism
• FBI wiretaps of Martin Luther King Jr. reveal the modern civil rights leaders thoughts, strategies, hopes, and fears during the 1960s
• Atlantic slave trade coverage from the 15^th through the end of the 18^th century as documented by the classic compilation, Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America

   

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