David Crumm’s Reviews > Reporting Civil Rights: The Library of America Edition: > Status Update
David Crumm
is on page 11 of 1982
The opening pages of this 2-volume set acknowledge that major national civil rights efforts were unfolding as early as 1941, before the U.S. declared itself in World War II after the December 1941 Pearl Harbor bombings. The first two pieces are fascinating windows into Black organizations already making nationwide appeals. This was seven years before Truman's Executive Order 9981 integrating the U.S. armed forces.
— May 19, 2023 06:50AM
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David Crumm
is on page 20 of 1982
The things you learn when you read the papers! I'm reading this Library of America volume of civil rights reporting slowly because I'm stopped dead in my tracks time and again. I just read a report on refusing to move to the back of a bus by Bayard Rustin for Fellowship, a newspaper of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Turns out, my father joined the Fellowship in that era because of writings he read in Fellowship.
— May 26, 2023 01:20PM
David Crumm
is on page 14 of 1982
This collection differs from Library of America's 2-volume sets Reporting World War II and Reporting Vietnam. Those volumes lean toward best-selling newspapers and magazines, making the point that all Americans had front-row seats to such reporting. This collection draws more on alternative media. Case in point: an absolutely gripping report by Tolly Broady about the Kafkaesque process of registering to vote in 1941.
— May 20, 2023 01:57PM
