A first draft of history / Ted Poston ; edited by Kathleen A. Hauke.

Contents Poems -- Our gift, o magi -- Age meets youth -- I witness my first lynching, Nashville, Tenn.-1926 -- Manhunt fear -- Articles -- 1930s -- Depression Harlem -- Harlem gasps for cool breath of air on hot nights -- Boxing -- Sportopics -- The Black newspaperman -- The inside story -- Russia -- Poston thrilled by sell-out editions in Moscow and New York -- Scottsboro boys -- You don't have to go to decatur to witness the Scottsboro trial -- "Beloved community" in Harlem -- Shantytown -- Race riot 1935 -- One year ago -- Harlem character -- Beloved prophet Martin makes last plea to Harlem -- Easy money -- Country cousins plot cleanups in numbers racket -- 1940s -- Enterprising Blacks -- You go south -- Labor organizing -- The making of Mamma Harris -- Poston's best friend -- One-man task force: close-up of Henry Lee Moon -- NAACP lawyer -- On appeal in the Supreme Court / Thurgood Marshall -- False accusation and repercussions -- Horror in sunny south: 'a good nigger'-but they ruined him, too -- Horror in sunny Florida: negro reporter from up north put in 'his place' -- Horror for sunny south: lynch mob's breath of death scorches reporter fleeing Florida -- Horror in the sunny south: Ted Poston tells neighbors' story of truth behind the Florida 'rape' -- ?t Horror in the sunny south: unmerciful beating is lot of negro arrested in Florida on rape charge -- ?t Harlem "mayor" -- ?t Taps for Bill Robinson set for noon Monday -- ?t Bojangles takes his last curtain call -- ?t 1950s -- ?t McCarthyism's toll -- ?t A poll of fear in our town / ?r Ted Poston, Nancy Seely -- ?t Jackie Robinson -- ?t 'Tried not to cry,'-Jackie re-lives the terrible 12th -- ?t Labor leader -- ?t The many sides of Walter Reuther -- ?t Effect of Supreme Court's decision -- ?t Dixie's fight for freedom-IV -- ?t Police brutality, 1950s -- ?t 'Just a day's work' to a Georgia trooper -- ?t Skin shade's downside -- ?t Dinner for four was OK ... but not for five -- ?t Overcoming hate -- ?t Prejudice and progress: the negro in New York I / ?r Ted Poston, Henry Beckett, Peter J. McElroy -- ?t Prejudice and progress: the negro in New York II / ?r Ted Poston, Henry Beckett, Peter J. McElroy -- ?t Prejudice and progress: Jim Crow in New York III / ?r Ted Poston, Henry Beckett, Peter J. McElroy -- ?t Prejudice and progress in New York: the negro in politics IX / ?r Ted Poston, Henry Beckett, Peter J. McElroy -- ?t Bus boycott -- ?t Ted Poston in Alabama: the negroes of Montgomery I -- ?t Ted Poston in Alabama: the negroes of Montgomery IV -- Ted Poston in Alabama: the negroes of Montgomery V -- School integration -- Nine kids who dared...the human drama in Little Rock -- A woman who dared -- Brooklyn clergyman -- The Mississippi still flows downstream: close-up of Gardner C. Taylor -- Upgrading schools -- She prepared for Norfolk-for a lifetime -- NAACP history -- Two score and ten years ago... -- 1960s -- Politics -- The Kennedys and the Lodges pay a visit to East Harlem -- Class -- Memo to Paul Sann on negro society -- Circulation -- Memo to Paul Sann on negro readership -- President Kennedy -- JFK and the negro -- ?t Minimal racial progress -- Plain talk for both sides -- Harlem riots through the years -- Harlem -- Voting rights -- Ted Poston from Alabama: a first-time voter at seventy-seven -- Harlem politician -- For Powell, the campus pays better than Congress -- Medgar Evers's brother -- Closeup: Mississippi candidate [Charles Evers] -- Harlem's troubadour -- Langston Hughes: a Poetic farewell -- The legacy of Langston Hughes -- Summing up -- The American negro and newspaper myths.
Abstract Fifty of the author's best pieces, originally printed in the New York Post, the Pittsburgh Courier, Amsterdam News, and New Republic.
Local noteLittle-325998--305131038572
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-239) and index.
LCCN 00036421
ISBN0820322393 (alk. paper)

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