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Focuses on the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and his capacity to organize boycotts. Distinction between a noble boycott and an old-fashioned shakedown; Career background of Jackson; Discussion on the PUSH campaign of Jackson related to corporate boycotts; Adoption of affirmative action by Jackson in his pursuit of quotas for black companies and professionals who deal with major corporations.

Discusses the gay rights movement at the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village. Description of the argument among gay leaders about the planning of Stonewall 25; Practice of Stonewall of indiscriminately linking the movement for gay equal rights with ay left-wing cause; Reference to the book "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society"; Information on the first-generation post-Stonewall gay activists.

Focuses on Marion S. Barry, Mayor of Washington D.C. Contributions of Barry to various political and social movements of the 1960s; His educational and professional background; Discussion of his increasing popularity in the political circles of Washington and local civil rights movement; Views of Joseph L. Rauh, a prominent Washington attorney, about Barry.

Presents information about the social conditions in Tennessee. Description about the civil rights movement in the state; Position of Fayette County of Tennessee among the poorest counties in the United States; Percentage of violence committed by the white minority; Economic and political conditions; Mortality rate of the newborn children due to hunger, sanitation and others; Improvement in health services in Tennessee after the civil rights movement; Brief information about conditions of students in Haywood and Fayette County; Problem of dental care facilities in Haywood County; Attitude of farmers towards Agricultural Marketing Project initiated by students in the state.

Comments on economic and political power of African American people in the U.S. Role of ethnic political machines and other ethnic institutions in the rise of the minorities; Opinion that the African American revolutions such as the civil rights protests, the spreading violence in the cities, and the controversy over black power are reflections of economic changes; Impact of technological developments on the occupations of African Americans; Information on the launch of civil rights movement by African Americans; Differences in the government plans for organized and unorganized labor.

Investigates the reason behind the arrests of civil rights protesters in Albany, Georgia in 1967. Implications of the arrests for the prevalence of race segregation in the state; Laws in the state which prohibit public distribution of handbills and political leaflets; Effects of the arrest on the increasing level of tension and violence in the county. INSET: Waiting in the Wings..

Focuses on the struggle of Martin Luther King for racial equality in the U.S. Achievement of political consensus necessary to establish a national holiday; Commitment to the spirit of nonviolence; Contribution to the struggle for racial equality; Attention to the success of the civil rights movement; Information that the passage of civil rights legislation had shifted the focus from purely racial concerns to the broader and less tractable issues of political empowerment and economic justice.

Focuses on American civil rights activist Baynard Rustin who died last month. Contribution of Rustin in organizing the Montgomery bus boycott and numerous other demonstrations, including the great March on Washington which brought a climax to civil rights protests; View that Rustin was instrumental in establishing the movement's ethos of nonviolence; Discussion on Rustin's approach to civil rights movements; Ways in which Rustin will be remembered.

Examines the strategy used by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. to promote racial equality in education. Reference to the case law Brown v. Board of Education in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed official segregation in public schools; Problems like diminished white support, internecine squabbles and a more hostile political environment faced by the fund; Rejuvenation of the civil rights movement; Recognition that integration has not improved the lives of black people that it purported to serve; Attempts to improve the fund's political base.

Addresses the issue of women's constitutional right to an abortion in the United States. Information on a landmark case that helped create a mass movement of social issue conservatives supporting the said constitutional right; Comments on the reasoning of the courts in relation to issues of abortion; Discussion of legal opinions on abortion that have placed great weight on giving doctors the freedom to exercise their best medical judgment.

Recounts the public demonstrations against apartheid held in front of the South African diplomatic building in Washington D.C. Signs carried by the demonstrating parishioners from Saint Augustine; Activities of picketers on Massachusetts Avenue; Different types of people who participate in demonstrations; Arrest of prominent personalities and civil rights leaders; Media coverage of demonstrations and arrests; Etiquette for a senatorial arrest.

Focuses on the problems of prison system in the U.S. Evidence of corrupt practices with adherence to criminal values; Existence of official and unofficial policies of racial segregation; Attribution for the Symbionese Liberation Army on the influence of radicals who came into prison; View that the civil rights movement did not create the racial polarization among the inmates; Fact that realizing the corrupting influence of penal institutions, judges were taking every opportunity to parole people to the community and were reducing prison terms; Existence of official and unofficial policies of racial segregation.

Focuses on the legal reason of counsel Arthur Mooradian for the arrest of 28 political activists in Chicago, Illinois. Proposition of elimination of some of the civil rights protected by the First Amendment; Issuance of guilty verdict for the protesters; Procedure that was followed by the police to arrest the picketers; Failure of the judiciary court to properly instruct the jury.

Presents information on voting rights of the African Americans. View that the voting rights bill is a fair attempt to let Southern African Americans participate in the democratic process; Opinion that the existence of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) is unsettling to conservative civil rights groups; Role of MFDP in encouraging rural Mississippians to participate in the civil rights movement.

Profiles the U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater. Views of Goldwater over treaties with Soviet Union; Efforts of Goldwater regarding civil rights bill; Announcement of a treaty related to compromise with Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev; Offer of bill by the U.S. President after the Negro revolt; Recommendation of a presidential candidate who is not an alternative to U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Conservatives in the United States have spilled a lot of ink denouncing two interrelated cultural trends. First, racial separatism--the abandonment of the civil rights ideal of integration; second, identity politics--the basing of political claims on racial, gender, or religious status. Around the time of the 1990 census, the Republican Party forged an unholy alliance with civil rights groups: Both would support an interpretation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that forced states to create majority black (or Hispanic) congressional districts wherever possible. The result was more black members of Congress and more Republican members of Congress--since, stripped of their Democratic-leaning black constituents, many white Democratic congressmen fell to Republican challengers. While the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 2003 favors integrated districts, the White House and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay do not. The Republican Party has fallen in love with racial separatism as well as identity politics. Since President George W. Bush took office, congressional Democrats have proved surprisingly effective in blocking his most conservative nominees to the federal courts. Democrats are doing the same thing with hard-right Alabama federal court nominee William Pryor Junior. Pryor is white and male. Democrats dislike Pryor's views on abortion and gay rights--they do not care whether he came to those views through Catholicism, Judaism, or by reading Edmund Burke.

Presents various letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues relating to civil rights, sports and labor movement in the U.S. Information on a new phase in civil rights movement; Discussion on human performance in sports which is limited by the basic laws of biology and physics; Effect of wage demand on inflation.

Focuses on the labor movement in the United States in the light of the celebration of Solidarity Day. Argument that Solidarity Day had little of the unalloyed moral fervour of the civil rights marches; Information that Solidarity Day was a stunning success; Information regarding anti-draft and anti-abortion demonstrations of recent years in the U.S.

Presents letters to the editor referencing to articles and topics published in the previous issues. Comment on the article "The Light in the East," published in the September 20 issue; Reference to the book "Since the Prague Spring"; Information on books and films reviewed by this journal; Role of Catholic Church in political affairs of the U.S.; Report that the civil rights movement was led by Baptist clergy and organized in Baptist church buildings.