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xiv, 514 pages 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Taken from the Guinea Coast as a child / Venture Smith -- An African prince sold into slavery by a rival king / Ukawsaw Gronniosaw -- The horrors of the middle passage / Olaudah Equiano -- A devout Moslem sold to the infidels / Omar ibn Seid -- Blacks serve the city in a time of crisis / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen -- Black people organize for self-protection / The Rules of the African Society -- Black people must support one another in their oppression / Prince Hall -- A plea for federal protection for manumitted slaves of the south / Petition of four free Blacks to the United States House of Representatives, 1797 -- Rebellion / The Confessions of Nat Turner -- Life as a slave / Mary Reynolds -- The escape of a fugitive slave / James W. C. Pennington -- Let my people go: spirituals -- The white church's oppression of the black man / David Walker -- Discrimination in the free states / Chalres L. Remond -- The slave must throw off the slaveholder / Henry Highland Garnet -- Black pride / John S. Rock -- Free the slaves, then leave them alone / Frederick Douglass -- Educating the freedmen of the Sea Islands / Charlotte Forten -- Debate on compulsory free public education for all -- Discrimination in Mississippi elections / Blanche K. Bruce. |
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The areas of racial discrimination -- Attack on the Supreme Court / Henry M. Turner -- Peonage in the South -- Valedictory address of the last Black southern congressman / George H. White -- Education before equality / Booker T. Washington -- Equality and education W.E.B. DuBois -- Black men organize -- The NAACP program for change -- Why Blacks must organize for legal rights -- Why Blacks chose to leave the South -- A bloody smear in the promised land -- Black poets sing (Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay) -- Free Africa for Africans / Marcus Garvey -- A new deal for the black man / Robert C. Weaver -- Domestic Slavery / Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke -- A Black workingman in the Communist party / Angelo Herndon -- Depression hits the promised land / E. Franklin Frazier -- March for a fair share / A. Philip Randolph -- Battle on the home front / Walter White -- The attitude of the black fighting man / Grant Reynolds -- Separate schools are deliberately unequal -- Little Rock prepares for desegregation / Daisy Bates -- Meredith cracks Ole Miss / James Meredith -- The philosophy of nonviolent coercion / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Jail, not bail / Thomas Gaither -- Black political action in the South -- We shall overcome: Freedom songs -- The singing is over / Julius Lester -- Conditions in the urban ghetto / Haryou-Act -- Liberation by any means necessary / Malcolm X -- All power to the people -- black power to black people. |
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The meaning of black power / Stokely Carmichael -- The urban league interprets black power / Whitney Young, Jr. -- Black revolutionary nationalism / Huey Newton -- The Black Manifesto / James Forman. |
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African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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