| Preface to the First Edition | | xiii | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | | xvii | |
| Introduction Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience | | xxi | |
| Section One Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861 |
| | 1 | (114) |
| ``On Being Brought from Africa to America'' Equiano'' |
| | 7 | (2) |
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| ``The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'' |
| | 9 | (8) |
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| ``Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality'' |
| | 17 | (3) |
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| The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | 20 | (4) |
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| David Walkers ``Appeal,'' 1829-1830 |
| | 24 | (10) |
| The Statement of Nat Turner, 1831 |
| | 34 | (5) |
| Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law |
| | 39 | (1) |
| ``What If I Am a Woman?'' |
| | 40 | (6) |
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| A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry, Letter of Milo Thompson, Slave, 1834 |
| | 46 | (1) |
| The Selling of Slaves, Advertisement, 1835 |
| | 47 | (2) |
| Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction, 1841 |
| | 49 | (2) |
| Cinque and the Amistad Revolt, 1841 |
| | 51 | (5) |
| ``Let Your Motto Be Resistance!'' |
| | 56 | (7) |
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| | 63 | (3) |
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| | 66 | (2) |
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| ``A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West'' |
| | 68 | (2) |
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| A Black Nationalist Manifesto |
| | 70 | (14) |
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| ``What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'' |
| | 84 | (4) |
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| ``No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect'': The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath |
| | 88 | (19) |
| ``Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions'' |
| | 107 | (4) |
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| The Spirituals: ``Go Down, Moses'' and ``Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel'' |
| | 111 | (4) |
| Section Two Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915 |
| | 115 | (102) |
| ``What the Black Man Wants'' |
| | 122 | (6) |
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| Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist |
| | 128 | (4) |
| Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction |
| | 132 | (3) |
| ``Labor and Capital Are in Deadly Conflict'' |
| | 135 | (3) |
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| Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African Diaspora |
| | 138 | (12) |
| ``The Democratic Idea Is Humanity'' |
| | 150 | (9) |
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| ``A Voice from the South'' |
| | 159 | (6) |
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| The National Association of Colored Women: |
| | 165 | (6) |
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| Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin |
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| ``I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' |
| | 171 | (3) |
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| Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation |
| | 174 | (7) |
| ``Atlanta Exposition Address'' ``My View of Segregation Laws'' |
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| William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian |
| | 181 | (2) |
| Race and the Southern Worker |
| | 183 | (8) |
| ``A Negro Woman Speaks'' ``The Race Question a Class Question'' ``Negro Workers!'' |
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| Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusader for Justice |
| | 191 | (4) |
| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
| | 195 | (14) |
| Excerpts from ``The Conservation of Races'' Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk |
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| The Niagara Movement, 1905 |
| | 209 | (4) |
| Hubert Henry Harrison, Black Revolutionary Nationalist |
| | 213 | (4) |
| Section Three From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954 |
| | 217 | (124) |
| Black Conflict over World War I |
| | 224 | (3) |
| | 227 | (1) |
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| Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay |
| | 228 | (13) |
| Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
| | 241 | (10) |
| | 251 | (2) |
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| Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance |
| | 253 | (11) |
| ``The Negro Woman and the Ballot'' |
| | 264 | (3) |
| Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson |
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| James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s |
| | 267 | (6) |
| Black Workers in the Great Depression |
| | 273 | (6) |
| The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s |
| | 279 | (2) |
| ``You Cannot Kill the Working Class'' |
| | 281 | (7) |
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| Hosea Hudson, Black Communist Activist |
| | 288 | (6) |
| ``Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood'' |
| | 294 | (4) |
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| Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the Fight for Black Employment in Harlem |
| | 298 | (2) |
| Black Women Workers during the Great Depression |
| | 300 | (6) |
| Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1939 |
| | 306 | (2) |
| A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941 |
| | 308 | (6) |
| Charles Hamilton Houston and the War Effort among African Americans, 1944 |
| | 314 | (2) |
| ``An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!'' |
| | 316 | (10) |
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| ``The Negro Artist Looks Ahead'' |
| | 326 | (5) |
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| Thurgood Marshall: The Brown Decision and the Struggle for School Desegregation |
| | 331 | (10) |
| Section Four We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction, 1954-1975 |
| | 341 | (146) |
| Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 |
| | 352 | (10) |
| Roy Wilkins and the NAACP |
| | 362 | (5) |
| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957 |
| | 367 | (4) |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Sit-In Movement, 1960 |
| | 371 | (1) |
| | 372 | (3) |
| ``We Need Group-Centered Leadership'' |
| | 375 | (2) |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence |
| | 377 | (6) |
| ``The Revolution Is at Hand'' |
| | 383 | (2) |
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| ``The Salvation of American Negroes Lies in Socialism'' |
| | 385 | (10) |
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| ``The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women'' |
| | 395 | (4) |
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| ``SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement,'' 1964 |
| | 399 | (2) |
| Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam |
| | 401 | (3) |
| Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism |
| | 404 | (14) |
| | 418 | (17) |
| ``CORE Endorses Black Power'' |
| | 435 | (3) |
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| ``To Atone for Our Sins and Errors in Vietnam'' |
| | 438 | (7) |
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| Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense |
| | 445 | (11) |
| ``The People Have to Have the Power'' |
| | 456 | (3) |
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| ``I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman'' |
| | 459 | (4) |
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| ``Our Thing Is DRUM!'' The League of Revolutionary Black Workers |
| | 463 | (3) |
| Attica: ``The Fury of Those Who Are Oppressed,'' 1971 |
| | 466 | (3) |
| The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana, March 1972 |
| | 469 | (4) |
| ``There Is No Revolution Without the People'' |
| | 473 | (7) |
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| ``My Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains'' |
| | 480 | (7) |
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| Section Five The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present |
| | 487 | (156) |
| Black Feminisms: The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 |
| | 501 | (6) |
| ``Women in Prison: How We Are'' |
| | 507 | (6) |
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| | 513 | (2) |
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| | 515 | (7) |
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| ``Shaping Feminist Theory'' |
| | 522 | (7) |
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| The Movement against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson |
| | 529 | (6) |
| | 535 | (11) |
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| | 546 | (6) |
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| The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Controversy, 1991 |
| | 552 | (6) |
| | 558 | (8) |
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| | 566 | (5) |
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| ``Crime---Causes and Cures'' |
| | 571 | (9) |
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| Louis Farrakhan: The Million Man March, 1995 |
| | 580 | (4) |
| ``A Voice from Death Row'' |
| | 584 | (2) |
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| ``Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters'' |
| | 586 | (6) |
| Black Radical Congress, 1998 |
| | 592 | (8) |
| 2000 Presidential Election |
| | 600 | (3) |
| | 603 | (3) |
| World Conference Against Racism---Durban, South Africa |
| | 606 | (7) |
| African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War |
| | 613 | (4) |
| The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005 |
| | 617 | (4) |
| U.S. Senate Resolution Against Lynching, 2005 |
| | 621 | (2) |
| Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005 |
| | 623 | (4) |
| Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, 2007-2008 |
| | 627 | (16) |
| Permissions | | 643 | (10) |
| Index | | 653 | (24) |
| About The Editors | | 677 | |
