January 1-2, 1966
TOP STORY: "Black panther" party emerges in Lowndes
FEATURE: Organizing in Birmingham
PHOTO ESSAY: "New Year at a Dying Dump"
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January 8-9, 1966
TOP STORY: Samuel Younge, Jr. murdered in Tuskegee
FEATURE: Visual artist Larry Godwin
PHOTO ESSAY: "Rabbit Hunt"
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January 15-16, 1966
TOP STORY: Julian Bond's Viet Nam Stand Stirs Storm
FEATURE: Pike County Sheriff P. W. Davis
PHOTO ESSAY: Oliver Farm stables
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January 22-23, 1966
TOP STORIES: Jefferson Co. demonstrations; SCLC - SNCC confrontation in Selma
FEATURE: Origin of "We Shall Overcome"
PHOTO ESSAY: "The Onlookers"
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January 29-30, 1966
TOP STORY: Democratic Party drops white supremacy plank
FEATURE: Profile of Conrad Deane
PHOTO ESSAY: "The World of Radio"
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February 5-6, 1966
TOP STORIES: Teachers' union integration; Republicans and civil rights
FEATURE: The movement in Tuskegee, AL
PHOTO ESSAY: "Basketball, Part One"
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February 12-13, 1966
TOP STORY: Lowndes County jury integration
FEATURE: Profile of The Koinonia Farm
PHOTO ESSAY: "Basketball, Part Two"
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February 19-20, 1966
TOP STORY: Races for Ala. state legislature
FEATURE: Jury system in Anniston, Calhoun County
PHOTO ESSAY: "Inside a Television Studio"
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February 26-27, 1966
TOP STORY: Beating of Collin Harris
FEATURE: Poverty In Boligee
PHOTO ESSAY: Professional wrestling in Mobile
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March 5-6, 1966
TOP STORY: The Race for Ala. Governor
FEATURE: King tackles Chicago slums
PHOTO ESSAY: Mardi Gras
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March 12-13, 1966
TOP STORY: SCLC and the '66 vote
FEATURE: Profile of Negro League legend David "Showboat" Thomas
PHOTO ESSAY: "Construction Land"
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March 19-20, 1966
TOP STORY: Push for teacher integration
FEATURE: Airmen in Montgomery
PHOTO ESSAY: "Track and Field: Further, Higher, Faster"
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March 26-27, 1966
TOP STORIES: Black candidates in sheriff races; USDA food aid in Macon Co.
FEATURE: The "Onliest" One
PHOTO ESSAY: Spring Break in Panama City
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April 2-3, 1966
TOP STORY: Sharecroppers in Dallas County
FEATURE: Jacksonville State College international student programs
PHOTO ESSAY: Lowndes County movement anniversary
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April 9-10, 1966
TOP STORIES: Picketing in Pratville; Chasing 'the negro vote'
FEATURE: Strike City in Washington
PHOTO ESSAY: "Viet Nam Ready"
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April 16-17, 1966
TOP STORY: "Jobs, Rights the Big Issues" in campaign '66
FEATURE: Our Lady of Fatima boys' school
PHOTO ESSAY: "A Rally In Selma"
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April 23-24, 1966
TOP STORY: Groups endorse Flowers
FEATURES: Maids' labor union; Mobile sculptors and potters
PHOTO ESSAY: Montgomery negro boys' club
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April 30-May 1, 1966
TOP STORY: 1966 Democratic primary, first state election under Voting Rights Act
FEATURE: How to vote by machine
PHOTO ESSAY: New faces In Ala. politics
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May 7-8, 1966
TOP STORIES: Long lines at polling stations; Undecided elections
FEATURE: Greenala Citizens FCU
PHOTO ESSAY: Freedom jamboree in Birmingham
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May 14-15, 1966
TOP STORY: Greene Co. elections disputed
FEATURES: Struggling Alabama schools; Election analysis
PHOTO ESSAY: Black Panther Party primary
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May 21-22, 1966
TOP STORY: SNCC seeks rural black power
FEATURE: Evicted Greene County tenant farmers' tent city
PHOTO ESSAY: Mississippi Delta in winter
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May 28-29, 1966
TOP STORY: Runoff primary elections
FEATURE: Mobile election controversy
PHOTO ESSAY: Ike and Tina Turner Revue
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June 4-5, 1966
TOP STORY: Lucius Amerson wins nomination for sheriff
FEATURE: Tuskegee high schools integration
PHOTO ESSAY: Selma Saturday morning
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June 11-12, 1966
TOP STORY: James Meredith murdered, leaders join for Miss. march
FEATURE: Profile of Rev. Johnny Burrell
PHOTO ESSAY: Little Korea in Birmingham
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June 18-19, 1966
TOP STORY: Vote registration doubles along Miss. march route
FEATURE: Artists' colony in Notasulga
PHOTO ESSAY: Livestock auction
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June 25-26, 1966
TOP STORIES: Non-violence debate; "Black Power"
FEATURE: Migrant workers back to school
PHOTO ESSAY: Mississippi march
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July 2-3, 1966
TOP STORY: Civil rights work on the Miss. march route
FEATURES: Hair Affair; Richard T. Rives
PHOTO ESSAY: Last days of the Miss. march
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July 9-10, 1966
TOP STORIES: Hunger in Hale County; School segregation in Lowndes
FEATURE: Poverty in Montgomery
PHOTO ESSAY: Jasmine Hill
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July 16-17, 1966
TOP STORY: Civil rights groups get federal grants
FEATURE: Southern Courier first anniversary
PHOTO ESSAY: Montgomery beauty salon
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July 23-24, 1966
TOP STORIES: "Black Power"; Police abuse
FEATURE: New weapon against the Klan
PHOTO ESSAY: Maternity and children's care day
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July 30-31, 1966
TOP STORIES: Reprisal in Bullock County; Tuskegee church integration
FEATURES: Adult literacy; James Kolb profile
PHOTO ESSAY: Roots day
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August 6-7, 1966
TOP STORIES: Civil rights worker sentenced; GOP ignores black vote
FEATURE: Black muslims confront America
PHOTO ESSAY: A stroll through Harlem
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August 13-14, 1966
TOP STORIES: SCLC convention; Mobile lawyer's home burns
FEATURE: Head Start in Miss. fights for life
PHOTO ESSAY: "A Trip Of Discovery"
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August 20-21, 1966
TOP STORY: Schools under fire
FEATURE: Profile of printer Richard Daniels
PHOTO ESSAY: "Burn, Baby, Burn"
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August 27-28, 1966
TOP STORY: Two cities -- Shubuta and Tuscaloosa
FEATURE: Highway displaces 1,700 families
PHOTO ESSAY: Junior acrobats
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September 3-4, 1966
TOP STORY: School desegregation in Birmingham, Eutaw
FEATURE: Freedom quilting bee
PHOTO ESSAY: Tom's place
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September 10-11, 1966
TOP STORY: School desegregation in Barbour County
FEATURE: Combat training at Fort Rucker
PHOTO ESSAY: Cotton Fields, Part One
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September 17-18, 1966
TOP STORY: Atlanta tense
FEATURE: Profile of Black policeman Willie Faniel
PHOTO ESSAY: Cotton Fields, Part Two
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September 24-25, 1966
TOP STORY: Crenshaw school desegregation
FEATURES: Arkansas school boycott; School violence in Mississippi
PHOTO ESSAY: Clayton Street
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October 1-2, 1966
TOP STORY: Eugene Thomas, Collie Wilkins freed
FEATURE: Cajuns in Washington County
PHOTO ESSAY: A demonstration in the North
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October 8-9, 1966
TOP STORY: Mississippi Head Start program loses funding
FEATURE: New African nations struggle
PHOTO ESSAY: Clayton Alley
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October 15-16, 1966
TOP STORY: Latest on the race for Governor
FEATURE: Marvell, Arkansas Freedom School
PHOTO ESSAY: Birmingham fair
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October 22-23, 1966
TOP STORY: '66 elections near, plots thicken
FEATURE: Housing struggles
PHOTO ESSAY: Carmichael confronts Tuskegee
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October 29-30, 1966
TOP STORY: Segrest seeks venue change
FEATURE: Day and night in Harlem
PHOTO ESSAY: Homecoming 1966
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November 5-6, 1966
TOP STORY: Election '66--day of decisions
FEATURE: Birmingham muslim leader James Shabazz
PHOTO ESSAY: Black Panther stalks Lowndes
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November 12-13, 1966
TOP STORY: Amerson elected Macon sheriff
FEATURE: School problems in three counties
PHOTO ESSAY: The campus scene
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November 19-20, 1966
TOP STORY: They call it justice
FEATURE: Mobile "white ballot" mystery
PHOTO ESSAY: Rural election day
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November 26-27, 1966
TOP STORY: James Earl Motley dies in jail
FEATURE: Profile of U.S. Senator-elect Edward R. Brooke
PHOTO ESSAY: Frogmore Retreat
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December 3-4, 1966
TOP STORY: Selma vs. Carmichael
FEATURE: Profile of artist Henri Linton
PHOTO ESSAY: Inside an operating room
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December 10-11, 1966
TOP STORIES: Segrest trial; Tyler farmers evicted
FEATURE: Tysonville Head Start
PHOTO ESSAY: The state championship
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December 17-18, 1966
TOP STORY: Segrest acquitted
FEATURE: Dump denizens now homeless
PHOTO ESSAY: "Black Faces of Alabama"
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December 24-25, 1966
TOP STORY: Miss. Head Start funding restored
FEATURE: Anatomy of a murder trial
PHOTO ESSAY: Christmas time
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