Modern Black Nationalism : From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan

by Van Deburg, William L.

• ISBN13: 9780814787892
• ISBN10: 0814787894
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

Since its dramatic growth under Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the 1920s, black nationalism has played a central role in American political and intellectual life. In Modern Black Nationalism, William L. Van Deburg has collected the most influential speeches, pamphlets, and articles that trace the development of black nationalism in the 20th century.Beginning with Marcus Garvey, the acknowledged father of the 20th-century movement, William L. Van Deburg here provides a showcase of the work of more than fifty prominent thinkers including Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, Amiri Baraka and Molefi Asante. Rare pamphlets distributed by organizations such as the Black Panther Party, articles from underground magazines, and memos from governmental officials offer a fresh look at the roots and the manifestations of this movement.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(18)
Suggestions for Further Reading	19	(4)
One Foundations of Modern Black Nationalism
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association	23	(9)
Universal Negro Improvement Association, Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1920	24	(8)
Federal Surveillance of ``Negro Agitators''	32	(2)
Memorandum to Special Agent Ridgely, 1919	33	(1)
J. Edgar Hoover
Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood	34	(6)
The African Blood Brotherhood, 1920	35	(3)
Race Catechism, 1918	38	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism	40	(11)
To the World (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress), 1921	41	(6)
Africa, 1924	47	(4)
Black Nationalism and the Harlem Renaissance	51	(8)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, 1926	52	(5)
Langston Hughes
I Am a Negro--and Beautiful, 1926	57	(2)
Amy Jacques Garvey
Depression-Era Communists and Self-Determination in the Black Belt	59	(5)
Speech on Black Self-Determination, 1931	60	(4)
Clarence A. Hathaway
Uncovering a ``National'' Past	64	(9)
The Suppression of Negro History, 1940	65	(8)
J. A. Rogers
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement	73	(5)
Why Should We March? 1942	74	(4)
Richard B. Moore and the Pan-Caribbean Movement	78	(6)
Speech on Caribbean Federation at the Luncheon Meeting for Lord Listowel, 1953	80	(4)
Carlos Cooks and the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement	84	(9)
Speech on the ``Buy Black'' Campaign, 1955	85	(8)
Robert F. Williams and ``Armed Self-Reliance''	93	(4)
Speech from Radio Free Dixie, 1963	94	(3)
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam	97	(9)
Know Thyself, 1965	99	(2)
The Making of Devil, 1965	101	(2)
A Program for Self-Development, 1965	103	(3)
Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity	106	(13)
Basic Unity Program, 1965	108	(11)
Two Black Nationalism in the Black Power Era
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Empowerment	119	(8)
Position Paper on Black Power, 1966	120	(7)
Frantz Fanon: Raising the Consciousness of the Colonized	127	(6)
Concerning Violence, 1961	128	(5)
Cointelpro and ``Black Nationalist Hate Groups''	133	(3)
Memorandum to Special Agent in Charge, Albany, New York, 1967	134	(2)
J. Edgar Hoover
Black Power Politics	136	(22)
National Black Political Convention, The Gary Declaration, 1972	138	(6)
National Black Political Convention, Model Pledge, 1972	144	(1)
Speech to the Congress of African Peoples, 1970	145	(13)
Amiri Baraka
Black Power in Education	158	(17)
Questions and Answers about Black Studies, 1969	160	(12)
Nathan Hare
Third International Conference on Black Power, Report of the Workshop on Education, 1968	172	(3)
Roy Innis and the Congress of Racial Equality	175	(7)
Separatist Economics: A New Social Contract, 1969	176	(6)
James Forman and the ``Black Manifesto''	182	(6)
Manifesto to the White Christian Churches and the Jewish Synagogues in the United States of America and All Other Racist Institutions, 1969	183	(5)
Black Power and Black Labor: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers	188	(9)
General Program (Here's Where We're Coming From), 1970	189	(3)
Our Thing Is Drum, 1970	192	(1)
Fight on to Victory: Interview with Ken Cockrel and Mike Hamlin, 1970	193	(4)
Liberating the ``Subjugated Territory''	197	(6)
The Anti-Depression Program of the Republic of New Africa, 1972	198	(5)
``First of all and Finally Africans''	203	(12)
Pan-Africanism--Land and Power, 1969	204	(11)
Stokely Carmichael
Black Art and Black Nationalism	215	(8)
The Role We Want for Black Art, 1969	217	(5)
Jeff Donaldson
Aunt Jemima, 1968	222	(1)
Murry N. DePillars
The Black Church and Black Power	223	(17)
National Committee of Black Churchmen, The Black Declaration of Independence, 1970	225	(4)
The Black Messiah and the Black Revolution, 1969	229	(11)
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
Revolutionary Nationalism: The Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Action Movement	240	(16)
Armed Black Brothers in Richmond Community, 1967	242	(2)
On Meeting the Needs of the People, 1969	244	(5)
Eldridge Cleaver
What We Want, What We Believe: Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966	249	(3)
Revolutionary Action Movement, The African American War of National-Liberation, 1965	252	(4)
Black Women and Liberation	256	(19)
Panther Sisters on Women's Liberation, 1969	258	(11)
To My People, 1973	269	(6)
Assata Shakur
Three Black Nationalism and Contemporary Society
Maulana Karenga: ``Keeper of the Tradition''	275	(13)
The Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Their Meaning and Message, 1988	276	(12)
Afrocentricity	288	(7)
The Afrocentric Idea in Education, 1991	289	(6)
Molefi Kete Asante
Melanin and the Dynamics of Genetic Survival	295	(8)
The Neurochemical Basis for Evil, 1988	296	(7)
Frances Cress Welsing
Black Theology and ``The Dream of Freedom''	303	(12)
Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go from Here? 1977	304	(11)
James H. Cone
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam	315	(13)
P.O.W.E.R. at Last and Forever, 1985	316	(12)
The Black Belt Question Revisited	328	(5)
Which Way for the Black Belt Thesis? 1984	329	(4)
James Forman
The ``New Afrikan'' Case for Reparations	333	(9)
An Act to Stimulate Economic Growth in the United States and Compensate, in Part, for the Grievous Wrongs of Slavery and the Unjust Enrichment Which Accrued to the United States Therefrom, 1987	334	(8)
Imari Obadele
Toward African Liberation	342	(4)
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party, A Plan of Action, 1984	343	(3)
``Political Prisoners and Prisoners-of-War''	346	(21)
The Black Panthers: Interviews with Geronimo ji-jaga Pratt and Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1992	347	(20)
``Forward Ever, Backward Never''	367	(8)
Interview with Charles Lionel James, 1987	368	(7)
Index	375