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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience
SECTION ONE FOUNDATIONS: SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM, 1768–1861
1. “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” Phillis Wheatley, 1768
2. “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” Olaudah Equiano, 1789
3. “Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality,” Prince Hall, 1797
4. The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Richard Allen, 1816
5. David Walker’s “Appeal,” 1829–1830
6. The Statement of Nat Turner, 1831
7. Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law
8. “What If I Am a Woman?” Maria W. Stewart, 1833
9. A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry, 1834
10. The Selling of Slaves, 1835
11. Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction, 1841
12. Cinque and the Amistad Revolt, 1841
13. “Let Your Motto Be Resistance!” Henry Highland Garnet, 1843
14. “Slavery as It Is,” William Wells Brown, 1847
15. “A’n’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth, 1851
16. “A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West,” Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1852
17. A Black Nationalist Manifesto, Martin R. Delany, 1852
18. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass, 1852
19. “No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect”: The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath
20. “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions,” John S. Rock, 1858
21. The Spirituals: “Go Down, Moses” and “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”
SECTION TWO RECONSTRUCTION AND REACTION: THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY AND THE DAWN OF SEGREGATION, 1861–1915
1. “What the Black Man Wants,” Frederick Douglass, 1865
2. Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist
3. Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction
4. “Labor and Capital Are in Deadly Conflict,” T. Thomas Fortune, 1886
5. Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African Diaspora
6. “The Democratic Idea Is Humanity,” Alexander Crummell, 1888
7. “A Voice from the South,” Anna Julia Cooper, 1892
8. The National Association of Colored Women: Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
9. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar
10. Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation
11. William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian
12. Race and the Southern Worker
13. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusader for Justice
14. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
15. The Niagara Movement, 1905
16. Hubert Henry Harrison, Black Revolutionary Nationalist
SECTION THREE FROM PLANTATION TO GHETTO: THE GREAT MIGRATION, HARLEM RENAISSANCE, AND WORLD WAR, 1915–1954
1. Black Conflict over World War I
2. “If We Must Die,” Claude McKay, 1919
3. Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay
4. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
5. “Women as Leaders,” Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey, 1925
6. Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
7. “The Negro Woman and the Ballot,” Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, 1927
8. James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s
9. Black Workers in the Great Depression
10. The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s
11. “You Cannot Kill the Working Class,” Angelo Herndon, 1933
12. Hosea Hudson, Black Communist Activist
13. “Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood,” Mary McLeod Bethune, 1935
14. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the Fight for Black Employment in Harlem
15. Black Women Workers during the Great Depression
16. Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1939
17. A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941
18. Charles Hamilton Houston and the War Effort among African Americans, 1944
19. “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” Claudia Jones, 1949
20. “The Negro Artist Looks Ahead,” Paul Robeson, 1951
21. Thurgood Marshall: The Brown Decision and the Struggle for School Desegregation
SECTION FOUR WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION, 1954–1975
1. Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956
2. Roy Wilkins and the NAACP
3. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957
4. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Sit-In Movement, 1960
5. Freedom Songs, 1960s
6. “We Need Group-Centered Leadership,” Ella Baker
7. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence, 1957 and 1963
8. “The Revolution Is at Hand,” John R. Lewis, 1963
9. “The Salvation of American Negroes Lies in Socialism,” W. E. B. Du Bois
10. “The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women,” Fannie Lou Hamer
11. “SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement,” 1964
12. Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
13. Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism
14. Black Power
15. “CORE Endorses Black Power,” Floyd McKissick, 1967
16. “To Atone for Our Sins and Errors in Vietnam,” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
17. Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
18. “The People Have to Have the Power,” Fred Hampton
19. “I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman,” Angela Y. Davis, 1970
20. “Our Thing Is DRUM!” The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
21. Attica: “The Fury of Those Who Are Oppressed,” 1971
22. The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana, March 1972
23. “There Is No Revolution Without the People,” Amiri Baraka, 1972
24. “My Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains,” Henry Winston
SECTION FIVE THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN THOUGHT, 1975 TO THE PRESENT
1. Black Feminisms: Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
2. “Women in Prison: How We Are,” Assata Shakur, 1978
3. “It’s Our Turn,” Harold Washington, 1983
4. “I Am Your Sister,” Audre Lorde, 1984
5. “Shaping Feminist Theory,” bell hooks, 1984
6. The Movement against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson
7. “Keep Hope Alive,” Jesse Jackson, 1988
8. “Afrocentricity,” Molefi Asante, 1991
9. The Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas Controversy, 1991
10. “Race Matters,” Cornel West, 1991
11. “Black Anti-Semitism,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1992
12. “Crime—Causes and Cures,” Jarvis Tyner, 1994
13. Louis Farrakhan: The Million Man March, 1995
14. “A Voice from Death Row,” Mumia Abu-Jamal
15. “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters,” African-American Prisoners in Sing Sing, 1998
16. Black Radical Congress, 1998
17. 2000 Presidential Election
18. Hip-Hop Activism
19. World Conference Against Racism—Durban, South Africa
20. African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War
21. The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004–2005
22. U.S. Senate Resolution Against Lynching, 2005
23. Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005
24. Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign, 2007–2008
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