A collection of over 50 articles originally published in "Freedomways", one of the premier African-American intellectual periodicals during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Until now, these documents, which show the depth and breadth of the struggle for democracy, had been lost to the public. The publication of the Freedomways Reader restores this lost treasury. It contains what amounts to an oral history of the liberation movements of the 1960s through the 1980s. Through the reports of the Freedom Riders, the early articles against the Vietnam War and South African apartheid, the short stories and poems of Alice Walker, and the memoirs of black organizers in the Jim Crow south of the Thirties, one can walk in the footsteps of these pioneers. }

Foreword
(Julian Bond)
Introduction (Esther Cooper Jackson)
Origins of Freedomways
Behold the Land, No.1, 1964 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Battleground Is Here, No. 1, 1971 (Paul Robeson)
Southern Youth's Proud Heritage, No. 1, 1964 (Augusta Strong)
Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner, No. 1, 1964 (Henry O. Mayfield)
Not New Ground, but Rights Once Dearly Won, No. 1, 1962 (Louis E. Burnham )
Honoring Dr. Du Bois, No. 2, 1968 (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Ode to Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1976 (Pablo Neruda)
Reports from the Front Lines: Segregation in the South (J. H. O'Dell
The Negro People and the United States, No. 1, 1961 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
A Freedom Rider Speaks His Mind, No. 2, 1961 (Jimmy McDonald)
{/IT What Price Prejudice? On the Economics of Discrimination, No. 3, 1962 (Whitney M. Young Jr.)
The Southern Youth Movement, No. 2, 1962 (Julian Bond)
Nonviolence: An Interpretation, No. 2, 1963 (Julian Bond)
Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit, No. 4, 1979 (James Baldwin)
"We're Moving!" No. 1, 1971 (Paul Robeson)
Birmingham Shall Be Free Some Day, No. 1, 1964 (Fred L. Shuttlesworth)
Tremor in the Iceberg: The Mississippi Summer Project, No. 2, 1965 (Eric Morton)
The Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization, No. 2, 1965 (Staughton Lynd)
Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, No. 2, 1965 (J. H. O'Dell)
The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi, No. 2, 1966 (Lawrence Guyot and Mike Thelwell)
International Solidarity
The American Negro and the Darker World, No. 3, 1968 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Address to The United Nations, No. 1, 1961 (Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah)
What Happened in Ghana? The Inside Story, No. 3, 1966 (Shirley Graham Du Bois)
Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator, No. 3, 1972 (Shirley Graham Du Bois)
Socialism Is Not Racialism, No. 2, 1970 (Hon. Julius K. Nyerere)
THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
Selections from Robeson's Writings and Sp.