| Description | File of press cuttings from national and local newspapers containing articles on racial discrimination in the United States of America, and the effects of segregation policies. There are also a number of articles about leaders of the Black Power movement, and the activities of civil rights movement.
Coverage includes: article on Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power movement 1967; Black Power protest demonstration by US athletes at the Mexico Olympics 1968; the disappearance of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver while on parole; focus on racial tension and violence in Chicago 1968; article about the poverty of US Indians; black members of American Psychiatric Association consider racism the major mental health problem in the country; plea at Martin Luther King's funeral for calm and unity 1968; focus on the Ku Klux Klan in wake of the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968; focus on Muhammed Ali 1967; the hunt for the killer of Martin Luther King 1968; US city riots after the murder of Martin Luther King; US racial classification of children; statistics that proportionally more black than white American servicemen died in Vietnam; US black leaders no longer want integration; black children arrested in a school demonstration in Georgia about poor conditions 1968; white youths kill a black youth in Boston; John Lewis - 'freedom fighter' - visits Britain; Mao praises the black uprisings in the US; picture in the 'Birmingham Post' of a Mississippi Highway Patrolmen firing tear gas at a civil rights protesters 1966; the admission of black students to all-white fraternity houses 1965; a full page advertisement in 'Ann Arbor News' 1965 criticising communist involvement in the civil rights movement; African American groups urging a boycott of the 1968 Olympics; troops sent to Chicago and other cities where violence was occurring 1968; profile of riots in Detroit and the spread of riots to other US cities 1967; severe poverty and unemployment in black areas of US cities 1967; dispute over the case of the heart of a black patient being removed without the permission of his family in Richmond, Virginia 1968; US black athletes and a picture of the black power salute at the Mexico Olympics 1968; profile of Eldridge Cleaver 1969. |