| Description |
xv, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / C. Eric Lincoln -- Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes / John Wollman -- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State with his answer -- Essay on Negro slavery / "Othello" -- The life of Olaudah Equiano, the African / Gustavus Vassa -- An address to the inhabitants of Philadelphia against the Colonization Society / James Forten (and Russell Perrott?) -- Appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America / David Walker -- The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself -- The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States / Martin Robison Delany -- Speech at the Atlanta Exposition and what I am trying to do / Booker T. Washington -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others and the Colored world within / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- Philosophy and opinions / Marcus Garvey -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright -- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. / Earl Warren -- Black bourgeoisie / E. Franklin Frazier -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- My dungeon shook : letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation / James Baldwin -- Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum of December 16, 1964 / Malcolm X -- The legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of age of the Black nation / LeRoi Jones. |
| 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 |
Van Doren, Charles, 1926-2019.
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