| Description |
xviii, 734 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
[Chapter One] - Women and gender : --Selected speeches / Sojourner Truth -- The jealous mistress / Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Womanhood : A vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race / Anna Julia Cooper -- The damnation of women / W. E. B Du Bois -- Women 's most serious problems / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- On being young - a woman - and colored / Marita Bonner -- A century of progress of Negro women / Mary Mcleod Bethune -- To all black women, from all black men / Eldridge Cleaver -- Double Jeopardy: To be black and female / Frances Beal -- Feminism and black liberation / Audre Lorde -- The approaching obsolesecence of housework / Angela Davis -- Statement of Anita Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 11, 1991 / Anita Hill -- Establishing black feminism / Barbara Smith -- toward a black feminist liberaion agenda: Race gender and violence / Kristen Clarke -- [Chapter Two] - Kinship and community: -- Kidnappers! / Lewis Williamson -- To his son, 2/2/1850 / William J. Walker -- Childhood / Harriet Jacobs -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- Untitled excerpt from writings about her childhood / Ella Baker -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Playing hardball / Henry Louis Gates -- From a Black woman to a Black man / Maya Angelou -- In my father's house / Manning Marable -- Kwanzaa and the ethics of sharing: forging our future in a new era / Maulana Karenga -- [Chapter Three] - Imagining the black world: -- Poems / Phillis Wheatley -- Argument for colonization / John Russwurm -- Ethiopia / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- West India emancipation / Frederick Douglass -- The American Negro and his fatherland / Henry McNeal Turner -- Declaration of the rights of negro peoples of the world / Marcus Garvey -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- Writings / Paul robeson -- Letters from abroad / Malcolm X -- Selected essays / Audre Lorde -- "The continuity of struggle" / Assata Shakur -- [Chapter Four] - Political leadership and social protest: -- Petitions: Petition of the Africans, living in Boston, Felix; Anonymous appeal to William, Earl od Dartmouth; and the earliest extant negro petition to congress / Jupiter Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson, Joe Albert, and Thomas Pritchet -- Letter to Thomas Jefferson / Benjamin Banneker -- Oration on the abolition of the slave trade / Peter Williams Jr. -- Editorial from the first edition of freedom's journal / Rev. Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm -- Men of color, to arms! / Frederick Douglass -- speech to the Georgia legislature . Henry McNeal Turner -- Letter of Nimrod Rowley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1864 -- An address delivered at the Centenial Anniversary of Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the abolition of slavery / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Letter to the editor of Birmingham Age-Herald / Booker T. Washington -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Selected poems / Claude McKay -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- From protest to politicts / Bayard Rustin -- The business of America is War, and it is time for a change / Shirley Chisholm -- The struggle continues / Jesse jackson -- [Chapter Five] - In pursuit of justice -- Speech on the fugitive slave bill / Samuel Rinngold Ward -- Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863 -- Sojourner Truth: Extracts from her lecture on capital punishment -- Lynch law in all its phases / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- songs of the prison plantation -- The lynching / Claude McKay -- Freedom songs -- To praise our bridges / Fannie Lou Hamer -- The resistant spirit / Robert Williams --Life in prison / George Jackson -- The legacy of George Jackson / Angela Davis -- B-block days and nightmares / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- [Chapter Six] - Work, labor, and economic development -- Work songs -- Industrial education for the Negro / Thomas McCants Stewart -- Harvest song / Jean Toomer -- Song to a Negro wsh-woman / Langston Hughes -- Why should we march? / A. Philip Randolph -- Black boy: record of childhood and youth / Richard Wright -- A giant step toward unity / William Simons -- All God's dangers / Ned Cobb -- [Chapter Seven] - A vision of democracy: -- America / James Monroe Whitfield -- On American "Democracy" and the Negro / Robert Purvis -- Negro patriotism and devotion / Kelly Miller -- Our democracy and the ballot / James Weldon Johnson -- The shame of America / Archibald Grimke -- The kind of democracy the Negro race expects / William Pickens -- Selected poems / Langston Hughes -- I, too, am American / Paul Robeson -- The American dream and the American Negro / James Baldwin -- Who then will speak for the common good? / Barbara Jordan -- [Chapter Eight] - Popular culture -- Folk tales -- The prize fighter, editorial in Crisis -- The Negro spirituals / Alain Locke -- The dilemma of the Negro author / James Weldon Johnson -- It didn't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Duke Ellington -- High tide in Harlem / Richard Wright -- The revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- Where are the films about real black men and women? / Ellen Holly -- The signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- What America would be like without blacks / Raplh Ellison -- O.J. Simpson and our trial by fire / Michael Eric Dyson -- [Chapter Nine] - Faith and spirituality -- Spirituals -- Spiritual song / Richard Allen -- A thanksgiving sermon / Absalom Jones -- Excerpt from Clotel / William Wells Brown -- Excerpt from A Brand plucked from the fire / Julia A. Foote -- An antebellum sermon / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Wrightings / Fenton Johnson -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson --Faith hasn't got no eyes / Zora Neale Hurston -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- The most durable power / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Black theology and black power / James H. Cone -- The black church and socialist politics / Cornel West -- A torchlight for America / Louis Farrakhan -- |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Added Author |
Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
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Frazier, Nishani.
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McMillian, John Campbell.
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| ISBN |
0231108907 alkaline paper |
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