Contains magazine and newspaper articles. Subjects include Alex Haley and the Roots television program, the social and economic conditions of black Americans, racism, desegregation, the Duke University Oral History Program, James Baldwin, Jimmy Carter, protest marchers, the National Guard/NCA& T confrontation of 1969, the "Regents of University of California v. Allan Bakke" Supreme Court decision, the "Steelworkers v. Weber" Supreme Court decision, and Warmoth Thomas Gibbs.