Contributor
Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009.
Descriptionxxix, 676 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS: SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM, 1768-1861. "On being brought from Africa to America" / 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."
Note:SECTION TWO: RECONSTRUCTION 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 accommodation: "Atlanta Exposition Address" ; "My view of segregation laws" -- William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian -- Race and the souther 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.
Note:SECTION THREE: FROM 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 ; Excerpts 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.
Note:SECTION FOUR: WE 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 Mongomery ; 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 ; "I 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 Hamer -- "SNCC position paper: Women in the movement," 1964 -- Elijah Muhammad and the nation of Islam -- Malcolm 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" ; "A poem for black hearts" -- "My sight is gone but my vision remains" / Henry Winston: "On returning to the struggle" ; "A letter to my brother's and sisters."
Note:SECTION FIVE: THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN THOUGHT, 1975 TO THE PRESENT. Black feminisms: The Combanee 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, 1991 -- "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 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 against the war, 2001 -- The Cosby vs Dyson Debate, 2004-2005: Summary of "Dr. Bill Cosby speaks at the 50th anniversary commemorations of the Brown vs. Topeka 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 -- Hurrican 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.
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