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Selma Campaign, 1963-1965:

The Decisive Battle of the Civil Rights Movement

Edited by Rev. Wally G. Vaughn and Mattie Campbell Davis

About The Selma Campaign

About the Editors:

Wally G. Vaughn is a native of Sumter, S.C. He successfully completed studies at Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA., B.A., 1976; School of Theology at Virginia Union, M. Div., 1980; Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J., Th. M., 1991; and United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, D.Min., 2001. He is a chaplain in the United States Air Force, endorsed to serve by the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Chaplain Vaughn is the author of two other books. Reverend Vaughn is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He and his wife, Geraldine, have two children, Wallisa and Wally, Jr.

Mattie Campbell Davis is a native of Sheffield, Alabama, and graduated from Parker High School, Birmingham, Alabama. She successfully completed academic studies at Lawson Junior College, Birmingham, in 1968 and the University of North Alabama, B.A., in 1971. She is married to Reverend John Davis and they have one son, John, II. Mattie is co-owner of Robes and Gowns of Selma.

Table of Contents
Foreword, vi
Preface, x
Acknowledgements, xv
Contributors Trail, xviii
Selma Chronology, xxi
Introduction ,1

PART 1: THE STORY THAT SPARKED THIS SELMA PROJECT

REVEREND HENRY LEWIS PARKER, SR., 19

PART 2: LOCAL RESIDENTS RECOUNT THE SELMA CAMPAIGN

REVEREND FREDERICK DOUGLASS REESE 31 JAMES GILDERSLEEVE 55 ERNEST DOYLE 63 MARIE FOSTER , 69
BERNICE MORTON, 73
PAULINE ANDERSON 78 RICHIE JEAN JACKSON 82 DR. SULLIVAN JACKSON, 85
ANNIE LEE WILKERSON COOPER 88 RUVIEL JONES McCRACKEN 94 EDDIE PATTERSON 98 ELIZA MANUEL, 101
RUTH PORTER MILLS FOSTER , 103
JEFFIRSE JACKSON 108 MAURICE JACKSON 109 WILLIE LEE JACKSON, 112

PART 3: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SHARE THEIR STORIES

JACKIE R. McCRACKEN 116 MARCELLUS GRACE ,120; GRACIE BEAN PEOPLES , 124; JACQUELINE HUNTER, 126; ZENOBIA CRAIG ROBERTSON , 131
CARRIE MANUEL PROWELL ,134; GERALDINE JACKSON, 137; BOBBY THOMAS, 138
JOHNNY MANUEL, 143
FRANCES JACKSON SMITH, 146
: PART 4: PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONS SUPPORT THE SELMA CAMPAIGN

MARY LOUISE DORTCH TONEY , 149
DR. VIRGIL A. WOOD, 154
WALTER ROYAL JONES, JR., 157
REVEREND ELBERT RANSON, JR., 160

PART 5: PEOPLE JOIN THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH

MARY BIBBINS CLARK, 166
GRANT CLARK, 168
CLARESSA CHAMBLISS, 170
DOROTHY JEAN STEWART , 172
ANNETTE FELDER , 174

PART 6: LOWNDES COUNTY RESIDENTS GIVE MARCHERS A LIFT

LUBERTHA BAINE SHUFFORD HALL, 177
CELAIN ROPER RUDOLPH , 180
ANNIE MAE MUSHATT RUDOLPH, 185
ALICE IRENE LAWRENCE MOORE , 191
SHIRLEY STEWART EVANS, 196

PART 7: THE SELMA PROJECT SUMMARIZED

OVERVIEW OF SELMA CAMPAIGN BASED ON PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
EARLY YEARS: MID 1940s – 1962, 201
MAJOR TURNING POINTS DURING THE PUBLIC CAMPAIGN 1963
FIRST MASS MEETING HELD IN SELMA, 207; SNCC WORKERS ORGANIZE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, 211; REV. REESE ELECTED VOTERS LEAGUE PRESIDENT, 215
DR. KING INVITED TO SELMA, 219
THE BLACK TEACHERS MARCH , 224
BLOODY SUNDAY, 227
THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE SELMA CAMPAIGN, 232
CONCLUSION, 235

BIBLIOGRAPHY, 236
NOTES, 237

The Selma Campaign 2006.xxi+251pp $19.95(paper) ISBN 0-912469-44-7

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Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of A Black FBI Agent

by Tyrone Powers

" One of the most readable and important of [recent African American autobiographies]....Powers is a compelling writer."

William Jelani Cobb - Washington City Paper

" The significance of this literary masterpiece has compelled me to violate my most sacred rule: never expose your battle plan to the enemy...with this work of art by Mr. Powers, my collection is now complete."

James Wm. Morrison, Esq., Civil Rights Attorney

About Eyes to My Soul

Former FBI Special Agent Tyrone Powers, a veteran of the Maryland State Police, spent nine years as an FBI agent, with posting in Cincinnati and Detroit. He resigned in August 1994.

The picture of the country's top law enforcement agency that emerges from Powers' eloquent prose reveals an organization beset by the same problems of racism that plague the rest of American society. Powers describes sheet -clad students at the FBI Academy impersonating Ku Klux Klansmen. He reports on FBI agents in Detroit raising funds for white Detroit policemen charged with (and later convicted of ) second degree murder in the death of Black motorist Malice Green.

White agents according to Powers' narrative, urinated on photographs of President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore. Powers provides eyewitness evidence of the agency's extra- legal harassment of African American Mayors Coleman Young (Detroit) , Marion Berry ( Washington, DC) and Harold Washington (Chicago).

Former Special Agent Powers grew up in inner city Baltimore and his autobiographical recollections combine the sociologist's insight with the novelist's flair for storytelling. The problems of the inner city are presented in their unvarnished starkness.

Contents:

Introduction

Prologue

1. Valley of Death

2.God Knows

3.Family

4. Fatherly Betrayal

5.Silent Night

6.Revenge

7.Blues Free

8. Sweat, Blood and Tears

9. Uphold the Laws

10. Betrayed

11. Hillside Blues

12. Blue Gardenia University

13. Unity

14. Sleepwalking

15. Grandaddy Shaw

16. Lessons

17. Up From Slavery

18. Runaway Slave

19.The Recruiter

20. Down and Out

21. A Gathering of Young Men

22. The Decision Maker

23. The FBI National Academy

24. Special Agent Tyrone Powers

25. Soul Searching

26. By Way of Deception

27. The FBI

28. The Shadow of Death

29. Going Home

30. A Time to Cry

31. Laid to Rest

32. A Conversation Between Brothers

33. Crossroads

Epilogue

Appendix

Suggested Reading List

Index.

Eyes to My Soul 1996. x + 487 pp. $18.95(paper). ISBN 0-912469-33-1

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Reflections on Our Pastor : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church [1954-1960] Edited by Rev. Wally G. Vaughn, Rev. Richard B. Wills, Assistant Editor.

Through interviews with people who knew him as their preacher, the Rev. (Lt. Col.) Wally G. Vaughn's book offers a glimpse of the man before he walked upon the world stage.

- Stars and Stripes

"Reflections on Our Pastor "records the testimonies of Kings congregation. They present a view of "Brother Pastor" King as he rapidly rose to international prominence as one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the modern era and embarked upon a path that would end only in his martyrdom , and the abolition of the infamous " Jim Crow" racial discrimination laws throughout the country. Reflections on Our Pastor is highly recommended reading for students of Black History, The Civil Rights Movement and the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "

-Midwest Book Review

Among the Contents:

Testimonies by Deacon Zelia Evans, Decon John Fulgam, Dr. Ralph Brison, Dr. John Porter, Mrs. Minnie Woods-Dickson,Mrs. Jonnie R. Carr, Mr. Clarence Bozeman .

Subject Index Includes:

abolitionist movement/ African Americans; discrimination against/African Methodist Episcopal Zion church/Alabama -Selma to Montgomery march/ Atlanta Life Insurance ;voter registration efforts of/ Bus Boycott ; Montgomery/ Black professionals/Boston University/ Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters/ Carmichael, Stokely/ Civil Rights Movement/Douglass, Frederick/ domestic workers;Black/Elks/ Far East /First Baptist/Gandhi, Mahatma/ Ghana/ Government Informants/Integration/ Internal Revenue Service/Kappa Alpha Psi/Kennedy , J.F./ King, Coretta Scott/King, Daddy/ King, Martin Luther III/King, Yolanda / Ku Klux Klan/Montgomery Improvement Association / Moorhouse College /NAACP/ National Guard/ Tuskegee/ Vietnam/ Voter Registration/ Wallace, George/ White Citizens Council/YMCA.

Reflect ions on Our Pastor 1999. 163pp. $12.95 paper ISBN 0-912469-34-X

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Studies In The African Diaspora : A Memorial to James R. Hooker (1929-1976).

" The breadth of these papers are a fitting memorial to James R. Hooker, whose multi-faceted career had a major impact upon the development of African Studies...."

Peter T. Dalleo, International Journal of African Historical Studies

Contents:

Introduction by John P. Henderson & Harry Reed

1. General Motors in South Africa in the 1970s by Arnold P.D. Masunungure & Benjamin Wilson

2. Indigenous Church Building:The Tanganyika Experience by G. Ronald Anchak

3. The Universities Mission to Central Africa Steamer : A Peculiar form of Proselytizing by Murlene McKinnon

4. Preparatory Activities for the Inauguration of the National Congress of British West Africa: The Paradox of Elitist Political Behavior by G. I. C. Eluwa

5. From The Fountainheads of the Niger: Researching a Multi-ethnic regional History by Kenneth O. Wylie

6.Sofala Thought Ophir : An Exploration of Historical Fact and Fantasy in Southeastern Africa by T.H Elkiss

7. Farmers and Activists in Central Nyanza, Western Kenya, 1921-1925: A Failure to Redress Cotton Farmers' Grievances by Harry A. Reed.

8. A Pan-Africanist in Dominica: J. R. Ralph Casimir and the Garvey Movement, 1919-1923 by Tony Martin

9. Slave Drivers in Afro-American Oral History: Spiritual Survival of a "Dehumanized Plantation Elite" by William L. Van Deburg

Studies In The African Diaspora 1989. xvi + 162 pp. $39.95(paper). ISBN 0-912469-25-0.

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Carlos Cooks and Black Nationalism from Garvey to Malcom.

Edited by Robert Harris, Nyota Harris and Grandassa Harris

" Cooks was a pioneer in the abandonment of that 'ominous word ' Negro. He pioneered natural hair styles through his ' Miss Natural Standard of Beauty ' contests and fostered a Pan- African outlook. He kept the name of Marcus Garvey alive with his annual Garvey Day parades. He also waged a Buy Black campaign in an effort to establish black control of the African American community's economic life."

- Multicultural Publishers Exchange

Contents:

Part 1 : Published Speeches and Writings by Carlos Cooks

1.What is the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement?

2. What We Know !!

3. Code Africa

4. Why Black Nationalism?

5. Fundamentalism: A Call to Action

6. The Nationalist Manifesto

7. Racial Integration - A Sociological Farce

8. The Tragic Consequences of White Psychology

9. American Tradition Vetoes Integration

10. Strange, Isn't It ?

11. Harlem : Citadel of the Caste

12. Marcus Garvey: Champion of African Redemption.

13. Lumumba Foils Colonialist Plot to Partition the Congo

14.Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

15. Jomo Kenyatta, Man of Africa

16. Ira Kemp

Part 11: Excerpts from the Lectures of Carlos Cooks, 1954-1966.

17. Passing the Baton - Garvey to Cooks

18. Hair Conking - Buy Black

19. Gamal Abdel Nasser; Marcus Garvey Day

20. Ras and the Caste

21. Ethiopia; Haiti; Liberia;Kenya; the Black Woman

22. Naive Africans; Civil Rights

23. Religion

24. Lucifer, God and Civil Rights

25. The Caste Woman

26. Organization

27. Yankee-Doodleism vs Nationalism

28. Jews, Crackers and the Caste

29. Excerpts from the last message of Carlos Cooks

Carlos Cooks 1992. xxvi + 128 pp. $9.95(paper). ISBN 0-912469-28-5.

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The Jewish Onslaught Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront

by Tony Martin

" a polemic of the highest order ... the best example of an African answering the critics since David Walkers Appeal to the Black Citizens of The World."

-Molefi Asante , Journal of Black Studies

" Tony Martin has been forced to delve into the relationship between the Jews and Blacks and in the process, he has distilled a work that is informative, fascinating and one which will heighten the consciousness of Black people everywhere."

-Carl Wint, Sunday Gleaner

" I compare The Jewish Onslaught to the classic third chapter of Dubois' The Souls of Black Folk entitled " Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others...." Martin has written a book that years from now will be considered a classic.... It is simply a must reading on a controversial subject that needs greater airing than some of the more timid political attempts in recent years."

- Raymond Winbush, The Voice of Black Studies

Best Book of The Year - Black Literary Awards 1994!

#1 Best Seller ! - Your Black Books Guide

About the Jewish Onslaught

In 1993, a consortium of powerful Jewish organizations isued a call for the dismissal of Dr. Tony Martin from his tenured professorship at Wellesley College. His crime ? - Including readings on Jewish involvement in the African slave trade in an African American history course. With rare insight and biting wit, Martin replies to his detractors and offers a historian's analysis of Black-Jewish relations.

Contents:

Preface

A. The Jewish Onslaught

1. Introduction

2.Major Media

3. Massa, We Sick?

4. Jewish Racism

5. Some Jews ?

6. Black Solidarity

7. Afrocentrism

8. Conclusion.

B. Documents on the Onslaught

9. " Book Burning" at Wellesley College

10. Letters

Support Letters- Black

Support Letters - White

Jewish Hate Mail

American Jewish Committee/Lani Guinier

A Friendly Jewish Voice

My Letter to Boston Globe

11. Student Voices

Protest Contract Review

News Lacked Impartiality

On Andrews' op-ed

Original Jews were Africans

12. An Answer to My Jewish Critics

13. Blacks and Jews at Wellesley College

Index.

The Jewish Onslaught 1993.vii + 137 pp. $9.95(paper). ISBN 0-912469-30-7.

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