March/April 2006

CONTENTS

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Bush's Spies, Hoover's Ghosts
News that President Bush signed a secret order authorizing spying on Americans has civil rights activists recalling the 1960s
By Patrice Gaines

FEATURES
— A Purpose-Driven Life
The death of Coretta Scott King, the “First Lady” of the Civil Rights Movement, prompted a national outpouring of respect and admiration
By Vern E. Smith

— Get Off the Bus
Jo Ann Robinson, who laid the groundwork for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, is one of many unknown soldiers who made the success of the Civil Rights Movement possible
By Denise L. Berkhalter

—Working the Land
A moving photographic essay of America’s Black farmers
By John Francis Ficara, with text by Juan Williams

— Blackout in New Orleans
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, life for Blacks in the Big Easy couldn’t be worse. Louisiana State Sen. Ann Duplessis knows first hand
By Reginald Stuart

Cover: Chester Higgins Jr

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: College students to spend Spring Break volunteering in hurricane-ravaged Gulf states; Women Inspired to Transform mentors former female prisoners; Political activists return to Gary, Ind., to establish new Black agenda; Jessica Johnson’s Minority Scholarship Quest helps students find money for college; States address closing the education achievement gap; Freedmen’s Bureau papers made available to the public at National Archives
Questions: Spelman professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall on the future of women’s leadership
- Crisis Forum
* Gallery: Camille Giraud Akeju seeks to rejuvenate the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum
* Books:
— Reviews of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America by Elliot Lewis;
— Target Zero: A Life in Writing by Eldridge Cleaver, edited by Kathleen Cleaver and;
— Andrew Dietz’s The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race, Art, Power and Profit

- Backstory: Myrlie Evers- Williams fondly recalls the sisterhood she shared with fellow civil rights widow Coretta Scott King

- The NAACP Today
* Image Awards Special Honorees: Susan L. Taylor, the Neville Brothers and Carlos Santana;
* Midterm Legislative Report Card;
* Branch News: Colorado State University at Boulder

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