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Introduction: Why The Narrative?
The compulsion for writing this short monograph came the day a package arrived at the door of my house in West Linn, Oregon in the late fall of 2007.
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Chapter I: Both Home & College Were Provincial
Coming from a small town and entering a small college, both in Pennsylvania, I had no idea what monumental things were waiting for me as a freshman.
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Chapter II: The Run-Up
On March 8, 1965, the world changed forever both for me and everybody else at the “Right Little, Tight Little” college. A few professors led the way.
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Chapter III: The Little Red Book
My unused diary from the previous year documented the five tumultuous days prior to our departure for the Deep South.
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Chapter IV: Three Days In Montgomery
The three days of mayhem began with a church service at MLK’s Dexter Avenue Church.
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Chapter V: The Aftermath, Including The Little Red Book, Part 2
One professor badly hurt, a student jailed, the college on TV and in the national press. The administration was not amused.
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Chapter VI: Circling The Wagons
The student body was mostly hostile, and the newly-formed Student Committee on Racial Equality was blocked at every turn.
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Chapter VII: Summer Idyll
In the summer of 1965, I was on the on-campus editor of the SCORE newsletter and point person for communications
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Chapter VIII: Down In Dallas County
We were Selma, AL over Easter 1966 doing voter registration when we ran into Stokley Carmichael and his Black Panther.
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Chapter IX: LCFO, SNCC, AND DICK GREGORY
After the first anniversary rally of the Selma March, we spend an afternoon with Stokely, Dick Gregory, and Julian Bond.
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Chapter X: The Insurance Company
It took a year to produce, but the civil rights gang plus outriders produced a full-fledged musical in support of the student civil rights group SCORE…
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Chapter XI: The Demise of SCORE: Viet Nam Takes Center Stage
The student civil rights group disbanded in the fall of 1967, and anti-war fever swept up the activists still on campus.
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Chapter XII: Clean For Gene
The Pennsylvania presidential primary provides a bitter lesson in how the Democratic Party machine subverted the will of the voters.
About Narrative Concept
These narratives come from a first-hand account of the Civil Rights movement and are written by Charles Lytle
Why The Narrative?
The compulsion for writing this short monograph came the day a package arrived at the door of my house in West Linn, Oregon in the late fall of 2007.
Chapter III: The Little Red Book
This book cost only $0.90 and was bought by my goddamn brother for me, the owner (of the book, that is): Chuck Lytle.