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Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the ... second edition -- Introduction: Resistance, reform, and renewal in the black experience -- Foundations : slavery and abolition, 1768-1867. "On being brought from Africa to America" Equiano," / Phyllis Wheatley, 1768 -- "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano," / Olaudah Equiano, 1789 -- "Thus doth Ethiopia stretch forth her hand from slavery, to freedom and equality" / Prince Hall, 1797 -- The founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Richard Allen, 1816 -- David Walker's "Appeal", 1829-1830 -- The statement of Nat Turner, 1831 -- Slaves are prohibited to read and write by law -- "What if I am a woman?" / Maria W. Stewart, 1833 -- A slave denied the rights to marry / letter of Milo Thompson, slave, 1834 -- The selling of slaves / advertisement, 1835 -- Solomon Northrup describes a New Orleans slave auction, 1841 -- Cinque and the Amistad revolt, 1841 -- "Let your motto be resistance!" / Henry Highland Garnet, 1843 -- "Slavery as it is," / William Wells Brown, 1847 -- "A'n't I a woman?" / Sojourner Truth, 1851 -- "A plea for emigration, or Notes of Canada West" / Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1852 -- A black nationalist Manifesto / Martin R. Delany, 1852 -- "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Frederick Douglass, 1852 -- "No rights that a white man is bound to respect": the Dred Scott Case and its aftermath -- "Whenever the colored man is elevated, it will be by his own exertions" / John S. Rock, 1858 -- The spirituals: "Go down, Moses" and "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel." Read MoreReconstruction and reaction : the aftermath of ... slavery and the dawn of segregation, 1861-1915. "What the black man wants" / Frederick Douglass, 1865 -- Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist -- Black urban workers during Reconstruction: Anonymous document on the National Colored Labor Convention, 1869 ; New York Tribune article on African-American workers, 1870 -- "Labor and capital are in deadly conflict" / T. Thomas Fortune, 1886 -- Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African diaspora -- "The Democratic idea is humanity" / Alexander Crummell, 1888 -- "A voice from the South" / Anna Julia Cooper, 1892 -- The National Association of Colored Women: Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin -- "I know why the caged bird sings" / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Booker T. Washington and the politics of accomodation: "Atlanta Exposition address" ; "My view of segregation laws" -- William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian -- Race and the Southern worker: "A Negro woman speaks" ; The race question a class question" ; "Negro workers!" -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, crusader for justice -- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: Excerpts from "The conservation of races" ; Excerpts from The souls of black folk -- The Niagara movement, 1905 -- Hubert Henry Harrison, black revolutionary nationalist. Read MoreFrom plantation to ghetto : the great migration, ... Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954. Black conflict over World War I: W.E.B. Du Bois, "Close ranks" ; Hubert H. Harrison, "The descent of Du Bois" ; W.E.B. Du Bois, "Returning soldiers" -- "If we must die" / Claude McKay, 1919 -- Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay: "What the African Blood Brotherhood stands for" ; "Soviet Russia and the Negro" -- Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: "Declaration of rights of the Negro Peoples of the world" ; "An appeal to the conscience of the black race to see itself" -- "Women as leaders / Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey, 1925 -- Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: "The Negro artist and the racial mountain" ; "My America" ; Poems -- "The Negro woman and the ballot" / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 1927 -- James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s: "Harlem: the culture capital" -- Black workers in the Great Depression -- The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s -- "You cannot kill the working class" / Angelo Herndon, 1933: "Speech to the jury, January 17, 1933" ; Excerpt from "You cannot kill the working class -- Hosea Hudson, black Communist activist -- "Breaking the bars to brotherhood" / Mary McLeod Bethune, 1935 -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the fight for black employment in Harlem -- Black women workers during the Great Depression: Elaine Ellis, "Women of the cotton fields" ; Naomi Ward, "I am a domestic" -- Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1939 -- A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941 -- Charles Hamilton Houston and the war effort among African Americans, 1944 -- "An end to the neglect of the problems of the Negro woman!" / Claudia Jones, 1949 -- "The Negro artist looks ahead" / Paul Robeson, 1951 -- Thurgood Marshall: The Brown decision and the struggle for school desegregation. Read MoreWe shall overcome : the second reconstruction, ... 1954-1975. Rosa PArks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956. Jo Ann Robinson's letter to Mayor of Montgomery ; Interview with Rosa Parks ; Excerpts from Jo Ann Robinson's account of the boycott -- Roy Wilkins and the NAACP -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957 -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the sit-in movement, 1960 -- Freedom songs, 1960s: "We shall overcome" ; "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round" -- "We need group-centered leadership" / Ella Baker -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and nonviolence: Excerpt from "Nonviolence and racial justice," 1957 ; "A have a dream," 1963 -- The revolution is at hand" / John R. Lewis, 1963 -- The salvation of American Negroes lies in Socialism" / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "The special plight and the role of black women" / Fannie Lou Hammer -- "SNCC position paper: Women in the Movement," 1964 -- Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam -- Malcom X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism: "The ballot or the bullet" ; Statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity" -- Black power: Stokely Carmichael, "What we want" ; SNCC, "Position paper on Black Power" ; Bayard Rustin, "'Black Power' and coalition politics" -- "CORE endorses Black Power" / Floyd McKissick, 1967 -- "To atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam" / Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 -- Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense -- "The people have to have the power" / Fred Hampton -- "I am a revolutionary black woman" / Angela Y. Davis, 1970 -- "Our thing is DRUM!" the League of Revolutionary Black Workers -- Attica: "The fury of those who are oppressed," 1971 -- The National Black political Convention, Gary, Indiana, March 1972 -- "There is no revolution without the people" / Amiri Baraka, 1972: "The Pan-African Party and the Black Nation" ; Poem -- "My sight is gone but my vision remains" / Menry Winston: "On returning to the struggle" ; "A letter to my brothers and sisters." Read MoreThe future in the present : contemporary ... African-American thought, 1975-present. Black feminisms: The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 -- "Women in prison: how we are" / Assata Shakur, 1978 -- It's our turn" / Harold Washington, 1983 -- "I am your sister" / Audre Lorde, 1984 -- "Shaping feminist theory" / bell hooks, 1984 -- The movement against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson. Jesse Jackson: "Don't adjust to Apartheid" ; "State of the U.S. Anti-Apartheid movement: an interview with Randall Robinson" -- "Keep hope alive" / Jesse Jackson, 1988 -- Afrocentricity" / Molefi Asante -- The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy, 1991. "African-American women in defense of ourselves" ; June Jordan, "Can I get a witness?" -- "Race matters" / Cornel West, 1991 -- "Black anti-Semitism" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1992 -- "Crime-- causes and cures" / Jarvis Tyner, 1994 -- Louis Farrakhan: The million man march, 1995 -- "A voice from death row" / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- "Let justice roll down like waters" / African-American Prisoners in Sing Sing, 1998. "Statement by Sing Sing Prisoners" ; Michael J. Love, "The prison-industrial complex: an investment in failure" ; Willis L. Steele, Jr. "River Hudson" -- Black Radical Congress, 1998: "Principles of unity" ; The struggle continues: setting a black liberation agenda for the 21st century" ; The freedom agenda" -- 2000 Presidential election. "Letter to Governor Bush from Chairperson Mary Frances Berry," 2001 -- Hip-hop activism. "What we want" statement from Hip-Hop Action Summit Network, 2001 ; "Tookie protocol for peace," 2004 -- World Conference Against Racism-- Durban, South Africa -- African Americans respond to terrorism and war. "Barbara Lee's stand," 2001 ; 10 points from Iraq Veterans agianst the War, 2001 -- The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005. Summary of "Dr. Bill Cosby speaks at the 50th commemoration of the Brown vs. Tokepa Board of Education Supreme Court Decision" ; Excerpt from "Is Bill Cosby right?: or has the black middle class lost its mind?" -- U.S. Senate Resolution against lynching, 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005: "This is criminal": Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans, 2005 -- Barack Obama's Presidential campaign, 2007-2008: Excerpts from National Democratic Party Convention speech, 2004 ; "A more perfect union," 2008. Read More |
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