A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 4 1933-1945

by Aptheker, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780806510071
• ISBN10: 0806510072
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

Summary

Contemporary writings illuminating the struggles and achievements of African Americans since the seventeenth century are presented with brief historical notes

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
In Appreciation	xxi
The Case of Angelo Herndon (1933)	1	(9)
Angelo Herndon's Speech to the Jury	1	(6)
Summary for Angelo Herndon, Defendant, Before Fulton County Petit Jury	7	(3)
Benjamin Davis, Jr.
The American Negro Movement (1933)	10	(1)
Getting a Square Deal (1933)	11	(11)
Oscar De Priest
A Request of F.D.R. (1933)	22	(1)
What Does the Younger Negro Think? (1933)	23	(2)
Lawrence D. Reddick
Youth and Age at Amenia (1933)	25	(7)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States (1933)	32	(5)
Harry Haywood
Black Teachers in the South (1933)	37	(9)
Negro Teachers' Salary	37	(3)
The Colored South Speaks for Itself	40	(6)
George W. Streator
Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy (1933)	46	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
What Price National Recovery? (1933)	49	(6)
John P. Davis
Black People in the South and ``Relief'' Under the New Deal: Some Letters (1934)	55	(5)
I Have Seen Black Hands (1934)	60	(3)
Richard Wright
On the Meaning of ``Segregation'' and the Struggle for Afro-American Survival (1934)	63	(21)
Segregation	63	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
A Free Forum: The N.A.A.C.P. and Race Segregation	65	(5)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Comments on Segregation	70	(7)
Segregation in the North	77	(5)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Dr. Du Bois Resigns: Full Text of His Letter	82	(2)
For a 49th (All-Black) State (1935)	84	(6)
Negro Americans, What Now? (1934)	90	(3)
James Weldon Johnson
Jim Crow and Eating: Washington, D.C. (1934)	93	(8)
Cowards From Colleges (1934)	101	(8)
Langston Hughes
A Wage Differential Based on Race (1934)	109	(4)
Robert C. Weaver
They Could Make the Big Leagues (1934)	113	(3)
Rollo Wilson
Uncle Tom in Hollywood (1934)	116	(4)
Loren Miller
Southern Terror (1934)	120	(5)
Louise Thompson
Minority Peoples in Two Worlds (1935)	125	(8)
Langston Hughes
I Breathe Freely (1935)	133	(2)
Paul Robeson
Georgia Teachers and Educational Association: A New Deal for the Negro School Child (1935)	135	(2)
Trends in Negro Education (1935)	137	(3)
Williana J. Burroughs
The Harlem Outbreak of 1935 (1936)	140	(16)
Harlem is Scene of Battle	140	(1)
Complete Riot Report Bared	141	(3)
Harlem: Dark Weather Vane	144	(12)
Alain Locke
``There Goes God!'' The Story of Father Divine and His Angels (1935)	156	(8)
Claude McKay
The New Deal and Black People (1935)	164	(18)
Lily-White Social Security	164	(3)
George Edmund Haynes
A Black Inventory of the New Deal	167	(7)
John P. Davis
The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts	174	(6)
Robert C. Weaver
Congressman Mitchell on the ``New Deal''	180	(2)
To Negro Writers (1935)	182	(2)
Langston Hughes
Donald G. Murray vs. Maryland (1935)	184	(1)
Negro Students Challenge Social Forces (1935)	185	(7)
Maurice Gates
Alabama's Blood-Smeared Cotton (1935)	192	(2)
Albert Jackson
Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite (1935)	194	(4)
Richard Wright
The Bronx Slave Market (1935)	198	(6)
Ella Baker
Marvel Cooke
Old Guard vs. A.F. of L. (1935)	204	(4)
Lester Granger
Amsterdam News Lockout (1935-36)	208	(3)
Henry Lee Moon
The National Negro Congress (1936)	211	(9)
The Underlying Aim of Congress	212	(1)
John P. Davis
Keynote Address	212	(8)
A. Philip Randolph
The National Negro Congress (1936)	220	(15)
James W. Ford
Proposed Program for the Educational Progress of the Negro in Kentucky (1937)	235	(2)
Kentucky Negro
A Black Congressman on Political Parties (1936)	237	(3)
Two Against 5,000 (1936)	240	(4)
Roy Wilkins
Attitudes of Negro Families on Relief (1936)	244	(6)
Thyra J. Edwards
Youth Exhibits a New Spirit (1936)	250	(5)
Lyonel Florant
The Study of the Negro (1936)	255	(3)
George Longe
Proclamation of Southern Negro Youth: For Freedom, Equality, and Opportunity (1937)	258	(3)
On the Need for Unity (1937)	261	(7)
A. Philip Randolph
The Negro Worker in the Nineteen-Thirties (1937)	268	(11)
T. Arnold Hill
Too Much of Race (1937)	279	(3)
Langston Hughes
Victories in the Scottsboro and Herndon Cases (1937)	282	(9)
James W. Ford
What a Negro Mother Faces (1938)	291	(7)
Cecelia Eggleston
Research Barriers in the South (1937)	298	(3)
L. D. Reddick
The Proliferation of Public Forums (1938)	301	(5)
Negro Forum Council of Richmond, Virginia: A Non-Sectarian Agency for Creating an Enlightened Public Opinion	302	(1)
Lincoln, Nebraska, Young People's Forum	303	(3)
A Challenge to Negro College Youth (1938)	306	(5)
Charles H. Houston
Japanese ``Law and Order'' in Manchuria (1938) The Negro Commission, C.P., U.S.A.	311	(3)
Birth Control in Harlem (1938)	314	(2)
Isabella V. Granger
Organizing for Jobs: Harlem, 1938 (1938)	316	(2)
The Fight for Jobs	317	(1)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Platform for Job Campaign	317	(1)
Cheating the Georgia Chain Gang (1938)	318	(7)
Jesse Crawford
Southern Youth Marches Forward (1938)	325	(7)
Augusta V. Jackson
Women of the Cotton Fields (1938)	332	(3)
Elaine Ellis
What I Saw in Spain (1938)	335	(8)
William Pickens
Black People, Anti-Semitism, and Hitler (1938)	343	(4)
Anti-Semitism Among Negroes	343	(2)
Negroes, Nazis, and Jews	345	(2)
More Southerners Discover the South (1939)	347	(5)
Charles S. Johnson
Marian Anderson Sings (1939)	352	(2)
Third Annual Meeting of the Southern Negro Youth Conference (1939)	354	(6)
Call to Third All-Southern Negro Youth Conference	354	(2)
Youth Meets in Birmingham	356	(4)
Augusta V. Jackson
The Missouri Sit-Down Strike of Sharecroppers (1939)	360	(4)
The Programs of Organizations Devoted to the Improvement of the Status of the American Negro (1939)	364	(3)
Ralph J. Bunche
Washington Fights (1939)	367	(5)
John Lovell, Jr.
Conditions in Atlanta, Georgia (1940)	372	(3)
Against Jim Crow in Professional Baseball (1940)	375	(3)
William L. Patterson
Third Annual Meeting of the National Negro Congress (1940)	378	(4)
I Am a Domestic (1940)	382	(4)
Naomi Ward
Democracy and the Negro People Today (1940)	386	(11)
Max Yergan
Jim Crow in the Army Camps (1940)	397	(1)
Negroes and Defense (1941)	398	(5)
Metz T. P. Lochard
Jim-Crow Army (1941)	403	(2)
Henry Winston
The March-on-Washington Movement (1941)	405	(1)
Barriers to Negro War Employment (1942)	406	(12)
Lester B. Granger
Why Should We March? (1942)	418	(3)
A. Philip Randolph
The Durham Statement of 1942 (1942)	421	(2)
National Council Meeting, S.N.Y.C. (1942)	423	(2)
Black Violators of the Draft (1944)	425	(6)
Negroes are Fighting for Freedom (1943)	431	(9)
Shirley Graham
Jamaicans in the United States: A Conference (1943)	440	(3)
Summary	440	(1)
Labor Movements	441	(2)
R. Neale Thompson
The Detroit Race Riot of 1943 (1944)	443	(10)
Earl Brown
We Who Have Known Deprivation (To the United Jewish Appeal) (1944)	453	(2)
Writers Congress, 1943 (1944)	455	(7)
Communications Media and Racism	455	(7)
Walter White
The Election of a Black Communist Leader to the City Council of New York (1943)	462	(3)
Ben Davis, Sr.-G.O.P. Stalwart Ben Davis, Jr.-C.P. Radical	462	(2)
J. J. Adams
The Benjamin Davis Election (An Editorial)	464	(1)
A Declaration by Negro Voters (1944)	465	(5)
Pitfalls That Beset Negro Trade Unionists (1944)	470	(4)
George L-P Weaver
White Supremacy and World War II (1944)	474	(12)
Walter White
Beaten Half to Death (1944)	486	(1)
Nat B. Williams
What the Negro Soldier Thinks About This War (1944)	487	(21)
Grant Reynolds
The Negro Soldier (1944)	508	(1)
Charles H. Houston
A Blueprint for First Class Citizenship (1944)	509	(5)
Pauli Murray
An Independent Party (1944)	514	(3)
A. Philip Randolph
Let's Look at the Record (1944)	517	(2)
Madeline L. Aldridge
Full Employment and the Negro Worker (1944)	519	(6)
Willard S. Townsend
Some Mutinies, Riots, and Other Disturbances (1946-47)	525	(15)
Florence Murray
The Negro and the Post-War World (1945)	540	(9)
Rayford W. Logan
Race Relations in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (1945)	549	(8)
Eric Williams
Colonialism, Peace, and the United Nations (1945), by Board of Directors, N.A.A.C.P.	557	(1)
New York Anti-Colonialism Conference (1945)	558	(3)
Appeal to the U.N. Founding Meeting on Behalf of the Caribbean Peoples (1945)	561	(6)
The President Leaves a Legacy (1945), by The Chicago Defender	567	(1)
``Missing the Greatest Opportunity'' (1945)	567	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Postwar World Begins (1945-46)	571	(22)
Selected Bibliography	593	(2)
Index	595