Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader.
Chapter Five: “Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)”
Introduction by Clayborne Carson
1. “Mississippi: 1961-1962″
Robert Moses
2. “To Praise Our Bridges”
Fannie Lou Hamer
5. “Mississippi at Atlantic City”
Charles M. Sherrod
8. “To Mississippi Youth”
Malcolm X
9. “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
Bayard Rustin
Chapter Six: “Bridge to Freedom (1965)”
Introduction by David J. Garrow
3. “A Letter from a Selma, Alabama, Jail”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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