November/December 2005

CONTENTS

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Unchanged Melody: The Negro and the Flood
The fate of Black victims of the 1927 Mississippi flood mirrors the desperate circumstances of those in New Orleans in 2005
By David Levering Lewis

FEATURES
— The Crisis Interview: Gordon Parks
The legendary photographer, who has just published two new books, recounts the intersection of his work with the touchstones of America's past century
By Victoria L. Valentine

— After Katrina, Starting Over
A family that fled unforgiving New Orleans floodwaters finds refuge and a new beginning in a suburban Atlanta community
By Vern E. Smith

—Boycott in Montgomery
Fifty years ago, Rosa Parks's brave action on a public bus sparked a 381-day boycott and changed the course of American history
By Denise L. Berkhalter

— Rosa Parks, 1913 - 2005
The nation pays tribute to the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
By Hamil R. Harris, Trevor W. Coleman, Denise L. Berkhalter and Lottie L. Joiner


DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Rosa Parks lies in honor in U.S. Capitol Rotunda; Congressional effort would create a Justice Department division for unsolved civil rights cases; Black leaders respond to Hurricane Katrina crisis; Scholarships offered to Black students turned away from a Virginia county's public schools 50 years ago; Sanctioning discrimination at federally funded programs run by religious organizations; Alabama releases papers of commission that monitored Black groups in 1960s and '70s
Questions: Africare's Al-Hassana Idriss Outman on the famine in Niger

- Crisis Forum
* Theater: LaChanze stars in the musical version of The Color Purple on Broadway
* Music: Hip-hop community reaches out to those affected by Hurricane Katrina
* Books:
— British author Zadie Smith's third book, On Beauty is a witty novel set in the United States;
— Reviews of Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick;
— Hattie McDonald: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by Jill Watts;
— Spike Lee: That's My Story and I Am Sticking to It as told to Kaleem Aftab; and
— John Hope Franklin's Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

- Backstory: Jerome Ringo of the National Wildlife Federation reflects on Hurricane Katrina and the reality of man vs. nature

- The NAACP Today
* NAACP national headquarters coordinates Hurricane Katrina relief;
* Marking 100 years since the founding of the Niagra Movement;
* NAACP Chairman Julian Bond's eulogy to Rosa Parks

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