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CONTENTS

Introduction

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Urban League Beginnings, 

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New Ideas for the New South, 



Battling the Callousness of Political

Reality, 

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Declaring Our Interdependence, 



Civil Rights: Past Gains, Present

Uncertainty, 

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Our Children, Our Peers, 

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Bad Fix in America: The Reagan

Years, 

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A Year of Cascading Change, 

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