A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 5 From the End of World War II to the Korean War

by Aptheker, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780806514215
• ISBN10: 0806514213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

Summary

In this fifth volume of a towering work of brilliantly researched scholarship, African Americans recount the stories of their experiences in this country in their own words, revealing their reactions to the major events in American history. "A seminal work in black studies".--Arthur Ashe.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Introduction	xvii
Chain Gang Document	3	(9)
The Life of Moranda Smith	12	(2)
Pauli Murray's Career	14	(11)
Ella Baker Is Interviewed	25	(5)
We Charge Genocide (1945)	30	(22)
William L. Patterson
Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945)	52	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
A Rising Wind (1945)	54	(7)
Walter White
Appeal to the United Nations Conference on International Organization on Behalf of the Caribbean Peoples (1945)	61	(8)
Richard B. Moore
A Psychological Approach to Race Relations (1945)	69	(3)
Horace Cayton
``Negroes! Jews! Catholics!'' (1945)	72	(1)
Roy Wilkins
Erasing the Color Line (1945)	73	(2)
A. Philip Randolph
Adult Education Programs in Housing Projects With Negro Tenants (1945)	75	(12)
Frank S. Horne
Corienne K. Robinson
Jim Crow Challenged (1946) by NAACP	87	(1)
A Crucial Problem in Race Relations: Housing (1946)	88	(11)
Rose Helper
A Conservative's Outlook (1946)	99	(2)
Spencer Logan
Filibustering Fair Employment (1946)	101	(1)
Violence and Terror (1946)	102	(13)
The Pogrom at Columbia, Tennessee (1946)	115	(16)
Protesting Terror at Home and Abroad (1946)	131	(4)
First Petition to United Nations From the African-American People (1946)	135	(7)
The American Crusade Against Lynching (1946)	142	(3)
Political Developments in the South (1946)	145	(6)
Let the Voices Thunder Forth With Power (1946)	151	(1)
Mary McLeod Bethune
Unsheathing the Consumer Sword (1946)	152	(6)
James Farmer
Cases Against Public Carriers (1945-47)	158	(6)
The First ``Freedom Ride'' (1947)	164	(4)
Miscellaneous Civil Rights Cases and Controversies (1946-48)	168	(11)
Legal Prosecutions of Lynchers (1946-47)	179	(5)
``A Positive Constructive Program,''	184	(6)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Crime and Prevention: A Harlem Point of View (1946)	190	(5)
Channing K. Tobias
New York's Legitimate Theatre, 1946-48	195	(4)
Mabel Roane
Segregation: A Symposium (1947)	199	(34)
Ira De A. Reid
Robert C. Weaver
Loren Miller
Alain Locke
E. Franklin Frazier
Black Women Workers Speak (1947)	233	(3)
Estelle Flowers
Moranda Smith
Racial Discrimination in Government Agencies (1947)	236	(11)
Thomas Richardson
Lynching: An Analysis (1947)	247	(5)
Oliver C. Cox
People Versus Property (1947)	252	(11)
Herman H. Long
Charles S. Johnson
Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro (1947)	263	(20)
W. Montague Cobb
From Massacre to Integrating the Air Force (1947)	283	(3)
``Freedom Train'' (1947)	286	(2)
Florence Murray
An Appeal to the World! (1947)	288	(16)
W. E. B. Du Bois
``To Secure These Rights'' (1947)	304	(5)
P. B. Young, Sr.
For Abolishing Jim Crow in the Military (1947)	309	(2)
Coordinating the Anti-Racism Struggle (1947)	311	(3)
Racism in the Panama Canal Zone (1948)	314	(3)
Thomas Richardson
Call to Southern Youth Legislature (1948)	317	(3)
The African-American Electorate (1948)	320	(12)
Henry Lee Moon
A. Philip Randolph's Call for Draft Resistance (1948)	332	(4)
Walter White on the Randolph Proposal (1948)	336	(1)
A. Clayton Powell Supports Randolph (1948)	337	(2)
Earl Brown on Randolph's Views (1948)	339	(2)
On Racial Segregation in Armed Forces (1948) by Council for Civic Unity, San Francisco	341	(3)
Civil Disobedience Accomplished Mission (1948)	344	(2)
A. Philip Randolph
Grant Reynolds
A Right Secured (1948)	346	(5)
Loren Miller
From New Jersey to Virginia to South Africa (1948)	351	(3)
Crisis editorials
Condemning Anti-Communist Hysteria (1948)	354	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Roscoe C. Dunjee
Charles P. Howard
Paul Robeson
Why Was Du Bois Fired? (1948)	356	(11)
Shirley Graham
Why Negroes Are Opposed to Segregated Regional Schools (1949)	367	(8)
Charles H. Thompson
``On Behalf of Our Children'' (1948) by Atlanta Parents Council	375	(2)
The Embattled Southwest (1948)	377	(4)
Optimism in the Northwest (1949)	381	(7)
Edwin C. Berry
Discrediting Radical African-Americans (1949)	388	(8)
Florida's Legal Lynching (1949)	396	(4)
Ted Poston
The Case of Rosa Lee Ingram and Sons (1949)	400	(6)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Listen to Jesse B. Simple (1950)	406	(10)
Langston Hughes
The Negro Press (1950)	416	(7)
Words and White Chauvinism (1950)	423	(8)
Lloyd L. Brown
The Lynching of Pickie Pie (1950)	431	(5)
L. D. Reddick
Why Men Leave Home (1950)	436	(3)
St. Clair Drake
Successes in Indianapolis (1950)	439	(1)
Willard Ransom
Problems and Emotional Difficulties of Negro Children Due to Race (1950)	440	(8)
Regina M. Goff
The Place of Carter G. Woodson in American Historiography (1950)	448	(5)
John Hope Franklin
A Portrait of Carter G. Woodson (1950)	453	(7)
W. E. B. Du Bois
What Future for Negro Colleges? (1950) by Various Authors	460	(6)
The Killing of Willie McGee (1950) by Members of His Family	466	(3)
Paul Robeson's Passport (1950)	469	(9)
Important Legal Victories (1950)	478	(3)
Negro Women Workers: Union Leader Challenges Progressive America (1950)	481	(3)
Vicki Garvin
Does the Negro Want Integration? (1951)	484	(6)
Lester B. Granger
Canal Zone Discrimination (1951)	490	(5)
George W. Westerman
Index	495