December 31, 1966 - January 1, 1967
TOP STORY: Christmas eve in tent city
FEATURE: Inside Gees Bend
PHOTO ESSAY: "God Bless The Child"
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January 7-8, 1967
TOP STORY: School desegregation upheld
FEATURE: The story of Mound Bayou
PHOTO ESSAY: "White Faces Of Alabama"
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January 14-15, 1967
TOP STORY: Charlie McCastle shot to death
FEATURE: Birmingham war on poverty
PHOTO ESSAY: Southern Courier party line contest winners
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January 21-22, 1967
TOP STORIES: No charges in Motley killing; Amerson takes over
FEATURE: Peace Corps training at Atkins
PHOTO ESSAY: Sheriff Amerson takes office
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January 28-29, 1967
TOP STORY: Death on the highways
FEATURE: Bryce Hospital desegregation
PHOTO ESSAY: Passing through Elmore County
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February 4-5, 1967
TOP STORY: Robert Lacey killed by deputy
FEATURE: Tuskegee Mills
PHOTO ESSAY: Visit from the bloodmobile
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February 11-12, 1967
TOP STORY: Accused child rapist acquitted
FEATURE: How Debra Lewis desegregated a school
PHOTO ESSAY: "Cats and Circumstances"
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February 18-19, 1967
TOP STORY: Farmers find strength in numbers
FEATURE: New life for Miss. Head Start
PHOTO ESSAY: "Basketball On The Road"
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February 25-26, 1967
TOP STORY: Killings stir Birmingham, Prattville
FEATURE: Rights struggle in Mobile hospitals
PHOTO ESSAY: Head Start kids meet pony
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March 4-5, 1967
TOP STORY: Wharlest Jackson murdered
FEATURE: Cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr.
PHOTO ESSAY: "Now I Lay Me Down..."
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March 11-12, 1967
TOP STORY: Wounded picketer sues SCLC
FEATURES: Reading class in Meridian; Tutoring in Tuscaloosa
PHOTO ESSAY: Otis Redding in Montgomery
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March 18-19, 1967
TOP STORIES: Hayneville church burns; Explosion at Head Start office
FEATURE: Mobile youth detention
PHOTO ESSAY: Open-air school in Jamaica
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March 25-26, 1967
TOP STORY: Court orders state schools desegregated
FEATURE: Ala. sailor on leave in Hong Kong
PHOTO ESSAY: Fishing in Jamaica
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April 1-2, 1967
TOP STORIES: New private school In Auburn; Carmichael at Stillman
FEATURE: Revolution in Mobile
PHOTO ESSAY: At the beach in Jamaica
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April 8-9, 1967
TOP STORY: School desegregation hearings
FEATURE: Good Samaritan Hospital
PHOTO ESSAY: "When Shuttlesworth and Stokely Spoke"
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April 15-16, 1967
TOP STORIES: Tolliver charged with murder; Harvey Conner freed
FEATURE: The story of "Jubilee"
PHOTO ESSAY: U.S. Senate hearings in Miss.
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April 22-23, 1967
TOP STORIES: Police killing in Grenada; Willie James King funeral
FEATURE: Montgomery Rep. visits Viet Nam
PHOTO ESSAY: The Birmingham movement
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April 29-30, 1967
TOP STORIES: Verdict in Dew vs Lee; Carmichael on trial
FEATURE: Inside the Harvey Conner trial
PHOTO ESSAY: Alabama St. College protests
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May 6-7, 1967
TOP STORIES: Election results questioned; Louisville housing protests
FEATURE: News and views from Viet Nam
PHOTO ESSAY: Mack Brown, cutting timber in Miss.
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May 13-14, 1967
TOP STORIES: ACHR director knifed; Racial bullying in integrated schools
FEATURE: Head Start teacher training
PHOTO ESSAY: Louie Harris, cutting timber in Miss.
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May 20-21, 1967
TOP STORY: Trial finally set in '64 Mississippi civil rights murders
FEATURE: Sumter farmers evicted
PHOTO ESSAY: Alabama St. track and field relays
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May 27-28, 1967
TOP STORY: Bloody week for Ala., Miss.
FEATURE: Poor Peoples Corporation co-ops in Miss.
PHOTO ESSAY: Open house at Maxwell AFB
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June 3-4, 1967
TOP STORY: She never got to the school
FEATURE: Fred Gray's election case
PHOTO ESSAY: Children in the classroom
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June 10-11, 1967
TOP STORIES: Grenada mob freed; Another police killing
FEATURE: Alabama graduations
PHOTO ESSAY: Oak Park now integrated
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June 17-18, 1967
TOP STORIES: Violence in Prattville; Marches in Montgomery
FEATURE: The story of the last slave ship
PHOTO ESSAY: "The Gospel Truth"
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June 24-25, 1967
TOP STORIES: 120 black candidates in Miss.
FEATURE: Adult classes and job training in anti-poverty program
PHOTO ESSAY: Montgomery marches
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July 1-2, 1967
TOP STORY: Damages awarded in racial attack
FEATURE: Shootings in Roosevelt, Ala.
PHOTO ESSAY: "Our Days On Earth Are As A Shadow"
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July 8-9, 1967
TOP STORY: Hospital integration in Butler
FEATURE: Nightmare at Huntsville mental hospital
PHOTO ESSAY: Gees Bend workshop
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July 15-16, 1967
TOP STORY: Picketing in Birmingham
FEATURES: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture tours South; Miss. campaigns; Courier second anniversary
PHOTO ESSAY: James Meredith - 'Walk Against Fear' in Miss.
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July 22-23, 1967
TOP STORY: Draft resister gets five years
FEATURES: Integrated drama group; VISTA in Birmingham
PHOTO ESSAY: "Play Ball!"
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July 29-30, 1967
TOP STORIES: Black poll workers in Miss.; B'ham mayhem; Clarksdale police shooting
FEATURE: Campaigning for governor in Miss.
PHOTO ESSAY: "I Live Just Like I Can"
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August 5-6, 1967
TOP STORIES: Miss. primary election; Ala. union workers fired
FEATURE: Searcy St. mental hospital
PHOTO ESSAY: Jazz in Kelly Ingram Park
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August 12-13, 1967
TOP STORIES: Black winners in Miss. primary; Grand jury clears Tolliver
FEATURE: Demopolis movement stalls
PHOTO ESSAY: Peace march in Atlanta
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August 19-20, 1967
TOP STORY: Violent backlash in Miss.
FEATURE: Adult summer classes in Ala.
PHOTO ESSAY: Candidates at Neshoba County fair
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August 26-27, 1967
TOP STORIES: Klan rallies in La.; King at SCLC convention
FEATURE: Black women win Fla council races
PHOTO ESSAY: Newtown
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September 2-3, 1967
TOP STORY: Black candidates fall in Miss. elections
FEATURE: Birmingham schools integration
PHOTO ESSAY: Black People's Free Store
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September 9-10, 1967
TOP STORY: School boycott in Choctaw
FEATURE: School days in Mississippi
PHOTO ESSAY: End of Louisiana rights march
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September 16-17, 1967
TOP STORIES: CDGM teacher beaten; Selma strike continues
FEATURE: Bullock Co. vote trial ends
PHOTO ESSAY: Big city drop-outs
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September 23-24, 1967
TOP STORIES: Turmoil in Montgomery movement, Lowndes anti-poverty board
FEATURES: Nat'l Conference For New Politics
PHOTO ESSAY: A trip to Expo '67
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September 30 - October 1, 1967
TOP STORY: Macon County elections
FEATURE: Black Atlanta pols share election advice
PHOTO ESSAY: Marion okra farm
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October 7-8, 1967
TOP STORIES: Bus assault; CAP president fired
FEATURES: Courthouse haunted; Sculptor George Penney
PHOTO ESSAY: Hobson City
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October 14-15, 1967
TOP STORIES: Vicksburg projects emptied; Neshoba trial update
FEATURES: Profiles of Jessie Bell, W. T. Money
PHOTO ESSAY: Julius family, tenant farmers
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October 21-22, 1967
TOP STORY: Defense attacks gov't in Neshoba killings trial
FEATURE: Alabamians in New York
PHOTO ESSAY: First Monday in Jackson County
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October 28-29, 1967
TOP STORY: Guilty verdicts in Miss. trial
FEATURE: Evicted farm kids flock to Head Start
PHOTO ESSAY: National Peanut Festival
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November 4-5, 1967
TOP STORIES: Hung jury in Macon rape; King in Birmingham jail
FEATURE: March on the Pentagon
PHOTO ESSAY: The integrated festival
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November 11-12, 1967
TOP STORIES: Robert Clark elected to Miss. House; King released in Birmingham
FEATURE: Neshoba County after '64 killings
PHOTO ESSAY: Anti-war demonstration in Washington
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November 18-19, 1967
TOP STORIES: Suspected police beating; Bessemer picketers win
FEATURE: Race problem in Great Britain
PHOTO ESSAY: San Francisco hippies
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November 25-26, 1967
TOP STORY: Triple shooting in Lowndes
FEATURE: 'Bama State, Tigers meet for title
PHOTO ESSAY: George Scott Day in Greeneville, Miss.
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December 2-3, 1967
TOP STORY: Jesse Parham disappears
FEATURE: USDA discrimation and rural poverty
PHOTO ESSAY: The Bracy family
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December 9-10, 1967
TOP STORIES: No change in slums; Juvenile justice and injustice
FEATURE: Three views of black power
PHOTO ESSAY: Save Mt. Beulah
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December 16-17, 1967
TOP STORIES: State trooper kills farm worker; 'Naturals' in Selma
FEATURE: 'Lonely Hunter' films in Selma
PHOTO ESSAY: King speech, Klan rally in Montgomery
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December 23-24, 1967
TOP STORY: Miss. election winners face bond hurdle
FEATURE: George Wallace in Ohio
PHOTO ESSAY: "Blues 'n' Roots"
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December 30-31, 1967
TOP STORY: Police liquor raids in 'dry' counties
FEATURE: Birmingham store picketers win
PHOTO ESSAY: Black Christmas
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