The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle

The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement.

A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go.

Included are the Supreme Court's Brown vs Board of Education decision in its entirety; speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., and his famous "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"; an interview with Rosa Parks; selections from Malcolm X Speaks; Black Panther Bobby Seale's Seize the Time; Ralph Abernathy's controversial And the Walls Came Tumbling Down; a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandel, and much more.

“An important volume for students and professionals who wish to grasp the basic nature of the civil rights movement and how it changed America in fundamental ways.” —Aldon Morris, Northwestern University

• Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
• Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
• Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
• Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
• In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
• Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
• The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan
• I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement