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

by: Finkenbine, Roy E.

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

by: Finkenbine, Roy E.

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9780321162168
ISBN 10:
0321162161
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/29/2003
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.

"Bones of the Past": Using Primary Sources in African American History

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1 Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade

(9)

Venture Smith,

Capture and Sale in West Africa

(3)

Olaudah Equiano,

The Middle Passage

(5)

2 Becoming African American: The Colonial Experience

(9)

Olaudah Equiano,

Culture Shock

(3)

Charles Ball,

African Culture in the Lowcountry

(1)

John Manant,

The Impact of the Great Awakening

(4)

3 Black Declarations of Independence: The American Revolution

(11)

Phillis Wheatley,

Our Modern Egyptians

(1)

A Petition for Freedom in Massachusetts

(1)

Jehu Grant,

Fighting for the Revolutionary Cause

(2)

Boston King,

A Black Loyalist

(2)

Benjamin Banneker,

Challenging the Racial Views of a Founding Father

(4)

4 Free Black Communities in the New Nation

(12)

Maria W. Stewart,

A Little Better than Slavery

(2)

Richard Allen,

The Rise of African American Churches

(2)

Samuel Cornish,

An Independent Press

(2)

John B. Russwurm,

Colonization Endorsed

(1)

Peter Williams Jr.,

Colonization Rejected

(4)

5 Antebellum Slavery: Testimony from the Quarters

(20)

Solomon Northup,

Life and Labor on a Cotton Plantation

(1)

Frederick Douglass,

Whipping Slaves

(1)

Images of Slavery

(3)

Louisa Picquet,

The Experience of a Female Slave

(3)

Peter Randolph,

Culture and Religion in the Quarters

(1)

Spirituals

(2)

The Tar Baby Tale

(2)

David Holmes,

Escaping from Slavery

(2)

The Confessions of Nat Turner

(4)

6 Black Abolitionists

(10)

David Walker,

An Antislavery Appeal

(2)

Lewis G. Clarke,

The Testimony of a Former Slave

(1)

Henry Highland Garnet,

Let Your Motto Be Resistance

(3)

Sojourner Truth,

Women's Rights

(1)

Martin R. Delany,

A Call for Emigration

(2)

7 Days of Jubilee: The Civil War and the End of Slavery

(12)

William Summerson,

Fleeing to Union Lines

(2)

Frederick Douglass,

Men of Color, To Arms

(2)

Meunomennie L. Maimi,

The Meaning of the War

(1)

Susie King Taylor,

Life in Camp

(2)

Charlotte Forten,

Teaching the Contrabands on the Sea Islands

(1)

Felix Haywood,

The Death of Slavery

(3)

8 Dreams Deferred: The Promise and Failure of Reconstruction

(12)

The Freedmen's Agenda for Reconstruction

(1)

Richard Harvey Cain,

A Black Congressman Demands Equal Rights

(1)

Harriet Hernandez,

Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan

(1)

Bayley Wyatt,

A Right to the Land

(1)

Henry Blake,

Working on Shares

(1)

The Changing Plantation Landscape

(3)

Henry Adams,

Leaving the South

(3)

9 The Color Line in the Era of Segregation

(22)

Mamie Garvin Fields,

The Effect of the Jim Crow Laws

(1)

Pauli Murray,

Jim Crow Signs

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

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

9780321162168

0321162161

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