THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRIMARY SOURCE READER
ISBN-13: 978-1-935987-72-7
# pages: 264
Copyright Year: 2016
Suggested Retail: $43.95
Description
In this anthology historian Evan Wade brilliantly weaves together Jim Crow laws, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, speeches, essays, executive orders, and organization statements to narrate the history of the Black experience in America from 1865 to present. Highlighted are triumphant moments in African American history and historic barriers the African American community faced to get to where they are now. Included in this anthology are the works of Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and other great Black notables.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
THE RISE OF JIM CROW
CHAPTER 1 Reconstruction Amendments
CHAPTER 2 United States Civil Rights Act of 1866
CHAPTER 3 United States Civil Rights Act of 1875
CHAPTER 4 Laws Defining Race
CHAPTER 5 Interracial Marriage Bans
CHAPTER 6 Segregated Schools
CHAPTER 7 Segregated Transportation
CHAPTER 8 Voting Barriers
CHAPTER 9 Vagrancy Laws
CHAPTER 10 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan
CHAPTER 11 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling—Plessy v Ferguson
PART II
BLACK RESPONSES TO JIM CROW
CHAPTER 12 Frederick Douglass—“The Race Problem”
CHAPTER 13 Ida B. Wells-Barnett—Lynch Law in Georgia
CHAPTER 14 Ida B. Wells-Barnett—”To the Members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau”
CHAPTER 15 Mary Church Terrell—”Lynching from the Negro’s Point of View”
CHAPTER 16 The Niagara Movement—“Declaration of Principles”
CHAPTER 17 Booker T. Washington—“The Atlanta Exposition Address”
CHAPTER 18 Elizabeth Hobson, et al.—“A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South”
CHAPTER 19 W. E. B. Du Bois—“The Talented Tenth”
CHAPTER 20 W. E. B. Du Bois—“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
CHAPTER 21 UNIA—“Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World”
CHAPTER 22 Marcus Garvey—“An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself”
CHAPTER 23 Marcus Garvey—“The True Solution of the Negro Problem”
CHAPTER 24 Claude McKay—Harlem Renaissance Poetry
CHAPTER 25 Langston Hughes —Harlem Renaissance Poetry
CHAPTER 26 Carter G. Woodson—The Mis-Education of the Negro
PART III
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND BLACK POWER
CHAPTER 27 Harry Truman—Executive Order No. 9981
CHAPTER 28 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling—Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (No. 1)
CHAPTER 29 Elijah Muhammad—“The Muslim Program”
CHAPTER 30 Martin Luther King, Jr.—Letter from a Birmingham Jail
CHAPTER 31 24th Amendment of the United States Constitution
CHAPTER 32 Malcolm X—“The Ballot or the Bullet”
CHAPTER 33 Fannie Lou Hamer—Congressional Testimony
CHAPTER 34 United States Civil Rights Act of 1964
CHAPTER 35 Alabama Literacy Test
CHAPTER 36 United States Voting Rights Act of 1965
CHAPTER 37 Lyndon Johnson–Executive Order No. 11246
CHAPTER 38 Stokely Carmichael—“The Chicago Black Power Speech”
CHAPTER 39 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: 10-Point Program
CHAPTER 40 Martin Luther King, Jr.—“Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
APPENDIX II Supreme Court Cases Involving Questions of Racial Equality
APPENDIX III United States Congress Civil Rights Acts
About the Author(s): Evan Wade
Evan Wade is an associate professor of History at San Joaquin Delta College where he teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. His research specialty focuses on 20th-century African American studies with a focus on Black nationalism. A native of Richmond, California, he is a proud graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Connecticut.
