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This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays and is designed to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of African Americans. The book presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.
Contents
VOLUME II1. Interpreting African-American HistoryDOCUMENTSThe Brownie's Book Encourages Black Children to Know Their History, 1920Carter G. Woodson on His Goals for Black History, 1922Mary McLeod Bethune Outlines the Objectives of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1937John Hope Franklin Explains the Lonely Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar, 1963Vincent Harding on the Differences Between Negro History and Black History, 1971Lucille Clifton and the Nurturing of History, c. 1990ESSAYSJohn Hope Franklin, The History of African-American HistoryDavid W. Blight, The Burden of African-American History: Memory, Justice, and a Usable PastFath Davis Ruffins, Sites of Memory, Sites of Struggle: The Materials" of History2. The Work of ReconstructionDOCUMENTSAfrican Americans in Richmond, Virginia, Petition President Andrew Johnson, 1865Freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina, Demand Land, 1865Captain Charles Soule, Northern Army Officer, Lectures Ex-Slaves on the Responsibilities of Freedom, 1865A Share-Wages Contract, 1865Charles Raushenberg, a Freedmen's Bureau Agent, Reports from Georgia, 1867Martin Lee, a Freedman, Struggles to Reunite His Family, 1866Elizabeth Botume, a Northern Schoolteacher, Remembers a Husband and Wife Reunion, c. 1865Harriet Hernandes, a South Carolina Woman, Testifies Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1871Elected Representatives, 1872ESSAYSHerbert C. Gutman, Schools for FreedomJulie Saville, Defining Free LaborElsa Barkley Brown, The Labor of Politics3. Renegotiating African-American Life in the New SouthDOCUMENTSBlack Southerners Look Toward Kansas, 1877David C. Barrow, Jr., a Georgia Planter's Son, Describes the Emergence of Sharecropping, 1880Nate Shaw Aims to Make a Living Farming, 1907-1908Black Southerners Appeal to President William McKinley for Federal Protection, 1898-1900Representative George White of North Carolina Delivers His Final Speech on the Floor of Congress, 1901Richmond Planet Reports a Streetcar Boycott, 1904-1905A Public Library Opens in Louisville, Kentucky, 1908ESSAYSElsa Barkley Brown, Renegotiating the CommunityTera W. Hunter, The Politics of Labor4. Rural Exodus and the Growth of New Urban CommunitiesDOCUMENTSBlack Population of Selected Cities, 1910-1930Migrants' Letters, 1917Helpful Hints for Migrants to Detroit, 1918George Edmund Haynes, a Black Social Scientist, Surveys Detroit, 1918A Migrant Family Adjusts to Life in Chicago, 1922Migration BluesESSAYSPeter Gottleib, The Great MigrationIrma Watkins-Owens, Caribbean Connections5. Defining a Race PoliticsDOCUMENTSIda B. Wells Urges Self-Defense, 1892Booker T. Washington Promotes Accommodationism, 1895Resolutions of the National Association of Colored Women, 1904The Niagara Men Pldege Themselves to Persistent Agitation, 1905Maggie Lena Walker Talks to Black Men About Racial Responsibility, 1906Promoting Black Towns, c. 1907Ten Thousand Charlestonians Petition for Black Teachers in Black Schools, 1919The Messenger Urges Black and White Workers to Organize, 1919Marcus Garvey Assesses the Situation for Black People, 1922ESSAYSDeborah Gray White, Race and FeminismWinston James, Race Consciousness and Radicalism6. The Culture WarsDOCUMENTSA Review of Scott Joplin's Opera "Treemonisha," 1911Blues Lyrics of the 1920sRev. George W. Harvey, Baptist Minister, Denounces Swinging Spirituals, 1939Alain Locke, Philosopher, Defines the "New Negro," 1925Langston Hughes, Poet and Writer, Critiques His Critics, 1940Screening the Race, 1925Zora Neale Hurston, Writer and Anthropologist, Takes Her University Training Home, 1927A Roundtable Discussion on African Survivals in Gullah Language, 1941ESSAYSTera W. Hunter, The Blues Aesthetic and Black Vernacular DanceEvelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Constructing Working-Class Culture7. Opportunities Lost and FoundDOCUMENTSBlack Population in Selected Cities, 1940-1960Charles Hamilton Houston and John P. Davis Critique the Lily-White Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934Protesting Lynching: A National Crime, 1934A "Black Cabinet" Assembles, 1938Louise "Mamma" Harris Describes Labor Organizing in Richmond, Virginia, Tobacco Factories, 1940A Marine's Letter to A. Philip Randolph About Discrimination in the Marine Corps, c. 1943Breaking the Color Bar in Sports, 1947ESSAYSRobin D.G. Kelley, Radical Organizing During the DepressionGretchen Lemke-Santangelo, New Lives in the West8. Origins of the Civil Rights MovementDOCUMENTSElla Baker and Marvel Cooke Describe Exploitation of Black Women Workers During the Depression, 1935Young Radicals Propose an Economic Program for the NAACP, 1935Charles Hamilton Houston Lays Out a Legal Strategy for the NAACP, 1935Goals of the National Negro Congress, 1935A Call to March on Washington, 1941James Farmer Recounts CORE's Early Direct Action Strategy, 1942Consumers Boycott Washington, D.C., Department Store, 1945ESSAYSRobin D.G. Kelley, Theatres of ResistanceRobert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor and Civil Rights9. The Civil Rights MovementDOCUMENTSJo Ann Robinson, Women's Political Council President, Hints of a Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1954Melba Pattillo Beals Recalls Her First Days at Little Rock Central High School, 1957Fannie Lou Hamer's Initiation into the Civil Rights Movement, 1962James Bevel, an SCLC Organizer, Mobilizes Birmingham's Young People, 1963Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes from His Jail Cell, 1963John Lewis, SNCC Chairman, Challenges the Federal Government, 1963Avon W. Rollins, an SNCC Field Secretary, Details Progrss Made in Danville, Virginia, 1964Malcolm X Defines Revolution, 1963Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Is Forced Out, 1960ESSAYSClayborne Carson, "A Leader Who Stood Out in a Forest of Trees"Charles M. Payne, Cultural Traditions and the Politicization of CommunitiesCharles M. Payne, Challenging the Politics of Spokesmanship10. After "Freedom Now!"DOCUMENTSNina Simone's Song "Mississippi Goddam," 1964SNCC Denounces the Vietnam War, 1966An Interview with Black Panther Jimmy SlaterCombahee River Collective Statement, 1977A Statistical Portrait of Black America, 1940-1990sMiami's Concerned Black Organizations for Justice Issues a Manifesto of "Collective Needs," 1980ESSAYSGeorge Lipsitz, Civil Rights Activism and the War on PovertySuzanne E. Smith, The Political Culture of Detoit11. Progress and Poverty: African Americans at the Dawn of the Twenty-First CenturyDOCUMENTSLeanita McClain on Being Black, Successful, and Middle Class, 1980Jesse Jackson Addresses the Democratic National Convention, 1988The Children's Defense Fund Assesses the Life Chances of a Black Child in America, 2000The Relative Economic Condition of Black Youths, 1973 and 1993The United States Congress Investigates Rap Music, 1994The New Face of Racism: Racial Profiling, 1999The New Face of Racism: The Ordeal of Haitian Immigrants, 1998TheBorders of Black America: The New "Black" Immigrants, 1999ESSAYSLani Guinier, Rethinking Constitutional RightsTricia Rose, Twenty-First Century Cultural PoliticsTemma Kaplan, The Changing Face of the Continuing Struggle"
