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9780321162168

Sources of the African-American Past : Primary Sources in American History

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    9780321162168

  • ISBN10:

    0321162161

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-08-29
  • Publisher: Pearson

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This collection of primary sources from Longman'sPrimary Sources in American Historyseries presents a view of the African American experience from West Africa to the present, and helps the reader relate to the experiences of ordinary people while offering a vivid snapshot of those lives in different historical periods.

Table of Contents

"Bones of the Past": Using Primary Sources in African American History vii
1 Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1(9)
Venture Smith,
Capture and Sale in West Africa
2(3)
Olaudah Equiano,
The Middle Passage
5(5)
2 Becoming African American: The Colonial Experience 10(9)
Olaudah Equiano,
Culture Shock
11(3)
Charles Ball,
African Culture in the Lowcountry
14(1)
John Manant,
The Impact of the Great Awakening
15(4)
3 Black Declarations of Independence: The American Revolution 19(11)
Phillis Wheatley,
Our Modern Egyptians
20(1)
A Petition for Freedom in Massachusetts
21(1)
Jehu Grant,
Fighting for the Revolutionary Cause
22(2)
Boston King,
A Black Loyalist
24(2)
Benjamin Banneker,
Challenging the Racial Views of a Founding Father
26(4)
4 Free Black Communities in the New Nation 30(12)
Maria W. Stewart,
A Little Better than Slavery
31(2)
Richard Allen,
The Rise of African American Churches
33(2)
Samuel Cornish,
An Independent Press
35(2)
John B. Russwurm,
Colonization Endorsed
37(1)
Peter Williams Jr.,
Colonization Rejected
38(4)
5 Antebellum Slavery: Testimony from the Quarters 42(20)
Solomon Northup,
Life and Labor on a Cotton Plantation
43(1)
Frederick Douglass,
Whipping Slaves
44(1)
Images of Slavery
45(3)
Louisa Picquet,
The Experience of a Female Slave
48(3)
Peter Randolph,
Culture and Religion in the Quarters
51(1)
Spirituals
52(2)
The Tar Baby Tale
54(2)
David Holmes,
Escaping from Slavery
56(2)
The Confessions of Nat Turner
58(4)
6 Black Abolitionists 62(10)
David Walker,
An Antislavery Appeal
63(2)
Lewis G. Clarke,
The Testimony of a Former Slave
65(1)
Henry Highland Garnet,
Let Your Motto Be Resistance
66(3)
Sojourner Truth,
Women's Rights
69(1)
Martin R. Delany,
A Call for Emigration
70(2)
7 Days of Jubilee: The Civil War and the End of Slavery 72(12)
William Summerson,
Fleeing to Union Lines
73(2)
Frederick Douglass,
Men of Color, To Arms
75(2)
Meunomennie L. Maimi,
The Meaning of the War
77(1)
Susie King Taylor,
Life in Camp
78(2)
Charlotte Forten,
Teaching the Contrabands on the Sea Islands
80(1)
Felix Haywood,
The Death of Slavery
81(3)
8 Dreams Deferred: The Promise and Failure of Reconstruction 84(12)
The Freedmen's Agenda for Reconstruction
85(1)
Richard Harvey Cain,
A Black Congressman Demands Equal Rights
86(1)
Harriet Hernandez,
Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan
87(1)
Bayley Wyatt,
A Right to the Land
88(1)
Henry Blake,
Working on Shares
89(1)
The Changing Plantation Landscape
90(3)
Henry Adams,
Leaving the South
93(3)
9 The Color Line in the Era of Segregation 96(22)
Mamie Garvin Fields,
The Effect of the Jim Crow Laws
97(1)
Pauli Murray,
Jim Crow Signs
98(2)
Images of Segregation
100(2)
Richard Wright,
Learning Racial Etiquette
102(8)
A Lynching in Mississippi
110(1)
Mary Church Terrell,
The Causes of Lynching
111(3)
Counting Lynchings in the Negro Year Book
114(4)
10 Racial Alternatives in the Progressive Era 118(14)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Self Help
118(2)
Booker T. Washington,
The Atlanta Compromise
120(3)
Henry McNeal Turner,
Back to Africa
123(3)
John Hope,
Rise, Brothers!
126(1)
W.E.B. DuBois,
Organizing for Protest
127(5)
11 The Great War and the Great Migration 132(14)
Causes of the Migration
133(1)
W.E.B. DuBois,
Returning Soldiers
134(2)
Alain Locke,
The New Negro
136(3)
Harlem Renaissance Poetry
139(1)
Zora Neale Hurston,
In Praise of Black Folk Culture
140(2)
Marcus Garvey,
African Fundamentalism
142(4)
12 A New Deal for African Americans? 146(10)
Joseph D. Bibb,
Flirting with Radicalism
147(1)
Virgil Johnson,
Switching Party Allegiance
148(1)
Mary McLeod Bethune,
A Black Adviser to FDR
149(3)
Roy Wilkins,
A Black Assessment of the New Deal
152(4)
13 Fighting on Two Fronts: World War II 156(13)
A. Philip Randolph,
The March-on-Washington Movement
157(2)
Walter White,
Race Relations in Wartime Detroit
159(4)
Sybil Lewis,
A Black Rosie the Riveter
163(2)
A Black Soldier in a Jim Crow Army
165(4)
14 The School Segregation Cases 169(9)
Charles Hamilton Houston,
Launching the Campaign
169(1)
Septima Clark,
Black Schools in the Jim Crow South
170(1)
The Argument in Brown v. Board of Education
171(3)
Elizabeth Eckford,
The First Day of School in Little Rock
174(4)
15 The Civil Rights Movement 178(18)
Rosa Parks,
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
179(1)
Martin Luther King Jr.,
The Strategy of Nonviolent Direct Action
180(1)
Franklin McCain,
The First Sit-In
181(2)
Hank Thomas,
The Freedom Ride
183(2)
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
185(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.,
I Have a Dream
188(2)
Fannie Lou Hamer,
Fighting for the Vote in Mississippi
190(2)
Alice Walker,
Changed by the Movement
192(4)
16 Black Power, Black Nationalism 196(14)
Malcolm X,
Black Nationalism and Black Revolution
197(2)
Julius Lester,
The Attractions of Black Power
199(2)
Stokely Carmichael,
Black Power Defined
201(2)
The Black Panther Party Platform
203(2)
Amini Baraka,
The Role of the Black Artist
205(1)
Nikki Giovanni,
Black Nationalist Poetry
206(4)
17 Half Empty, Half Full: African Americans since 1968 210(17)
Benjamin L. Hooks,
Continuing the Struggle
211(1)
The Black Middle Class and the Black Poor: Growing Divergence
212(2)
Michele Wallace,
Becoming a Black Feminist
214(2)
Molefi Kete Asante,
Afrocentricity
216(2)
Rap Lyrics
218(2)
Maxine Waters,
Causes of the L.A. Riots
220(2)
Manning Marable and Shelby Steele,
The Debate over Reparations
222(5)
Credits 227

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