A Documentary History Of The Negro People In The United States Volume 6 From the Korean War to the Emergence of Martin Luther King,Jr.

by Aptheker, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780806514314
• ISBN10: 0806514310
• 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
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Introduction	xiii
Summary Justice---The Negro GI in Korea (1951)	3	(14)
Thurgood Marshall
Athletics and the Arts (1951)	17	(37)
Sterling A. Brown
Changes in Legal Status of the Negro (1951)	54	(10)
William R. Ming, Jr.
Call to a Conference (1951)	64	(2)
Ruth Jett
Uncle Tom Is Dead! (1951)	66	(6)
William R. Hood
Recent Advances Toward Elimination of Segregation In U.S. Army (1951)	72	(6)
Revella L. Clay
The Accusers' Names Nobody Will Remember, But History Records Du Bois (1951)	78	(2)
Langston Hughes
White Chauvinism and the Struggle for Peace (1951)	80	(3)
Pettis Perry
Fight on Jim Crow Costs Jobs, Home (1951)	83	(1)
``What Turns Me Cold'' (1952)	84	(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Negro Artist Looks Ahead (1951)	85	(5)
Paul Robeson
The Negro People Versus the Smith Act (1951)	90	(5)
Richard E. Westbrooks
Earl B. Dickerson
The Killing of Harry T. Moore and Harriet Moore (1952)	95	(3)
Paul Robeson
A Petition to the President of the United States and the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations (1952)	98	(7)
I Accept This Call (1952)	105	(3)
Charlotta Bass
The Negro Voter and the 1952 Elections (1952)	108	(8)
W. E. B. Du Bois
With a Voice Full of Fury (1953)	116	(6)
Yvonne Gregory
In Defense of Negro Leadership (1953)	122	(7)
Rev. Edward D. McGowan
Segregation Means Inequality (1953), by NAACP Defense Fund	129	(4)
Desegregation: An Appraisal of the Evidence (1953)	133	(55)
Kenneth B. Clark
Lily White Traditions Tumbling (1954)	188	(4)
Augusta Strong
What Negroes Want Now (1954)	192	(8)
Walter White
New Emancipation (1954)	200	(3)
Henry Lee Moon
Alain Locke (1954)	203	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Mississippi Negro's Stand on Segregation in Its Public Schools (1954)	205	(5)
T. R. M. Howard
Mississippi Negroes Turn Down Governor's ``Voluntary Segregation Plan'' (1954)	210	(2)
Racism Is Sacrilegious (1954)	212	(6)
Benjamin E. Mays
A Teacher Looks at Integration (1954)	218	(6)
Nick Aaron Ford
Death for the `Miserables' (1954)	224	(2)
John H. McCray
``To Keep From Being Insulted'' (1954)	226	(1)
Jo Ann Robinson
History in the Making: Montgomery, Alabama	227	(2)
The Volcano Erupts (1954)	229	(11)
Jo Ann Robinson
Mississippi and Freedom (1955)	240	(2)
Paul Robeson
The Meaning of Bandung (1955)	242	(4)
W. Alphaeus Hunton
Campus Stirrings (1955)	246	(2)
Paul Robeson
Behind the Lynching of Emmett Louis Till (1955)	248	(10)
Louis E. Burnham
The Conspiracy to Deny Equality (1955)	258	(6)
Roy Wilkins
Like One of the Family (1956)	264	(8)
Alice Childress
Murder Continues: Will the Government Act? (1956), by the Editors of the Crisis	272	(2)
Negro Voters Face 1956 (1956)	274	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Southern Negro Stirs (1956)	276	(5)
Conrad Lynn
Fighting Racism: A Grass Roots Account (1956)	281	(31)
John Hope II
``The Scourge of Race Hatred,'' by Bishops of the A. M. Church	312	(1)
Trends in Patterns of Race Relations in the South Since May 17, 1954	313	(13)
John Hope II
Southern Vignettes (1956)	326	(4)
Anonymous
Our Struggle (1956)	330	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The NAACP and Extremism (1956), by the Editors of the Crisis	337	(2)
Thunder in the South (1956)	339	(8)
Abner W. Berry
Desegregation and Racial Tensions (1956)	347	(7)
Roy Wilkins
The New Negro (1956)	354	(4)
E. Franklin Frazier
A Southern Negro's View of the South (1956)	358	(7)
Charles S. Johnson
Whose Ordeal? (1956)	365	(2)
L. D. Reddick
Are Negroes Educable? (1956)	367	(4)
Martin D. Jenkins
White Man, Listen! (1957)	371	(4)
Richard Wright
Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)	375	(3)
Nonviolence and Racial Justice (1957)	378	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro Voter in Alabama (1957)	382	(5)
C. G. Gomillion
Consider the Negro Teacher (1957)	387	(4)
Nick Aaron Ford
Where's the Horse for a Kid That's Black? (1957)	391	(3)
Langston Hughes
Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)	394	(5)
Roy Wilkins
Challenging Little Rock (1957)	399	(3)
Daisy Bates
The Meaning of the Washington Pilgrimage (1957)	402	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Elizabeth Eckford Goes to School (1957)	405	(4)
Daisy Bates
The African-American Press and Montgomery (1950s), by Several Newspapers	409	(3)
Little Rock, Arkansas (1957), by Several Youngsters	412	(3)
The Civil Rights Bill of 1957	415	(2)
Charles H. Thompson
On Voting (1950s), by an Anonymous African-American	417	(1)
The New Heaven and the New Earth (1957)	418	(5)
Howard Thurman
Segregation in Higher Education: A Critical Summary (1958)	423	(5)
Preston Valian
``With All Deliberate Speed'' (1958)	428	(2)
Charles H. Thompson
Again, on African-American ``Intelligence'' (1958)	430	(7)
Horace Mann Bond
The Time Is Now (1958)	437	(23)
Paul Robeson
A White Citizen Council Member and Charles Gomillion: An Exchange (1959)	460	(6)
Youth March for Integrated Education (1959), by Several Authors	466	(11)
On the Third World and Its Challenge to the Great Powers (1959)	477	(11)
Mordecai W. Johnson
The Tactic of Non-Violence and Its Questioning (1959)	488	(13)
Robert F. Williams
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Postscript	501	(2)
Index	503