Anthologies of African American Writing

African American Voices (ed. Brown)

"African American Voices: A Documentary Reader from Emancipation to the Present." Ed. Leslie Brown. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. xvi+325 pp.

List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Freedom, 1865--1881
● 1 Black Ministers Meet with Representatives of the Federal Government, January 1865
● 2 Frederick Douglass Argues for Black Suffrage, April 1865
● 3 Jourdon Anderson Writes to His Old Master, 1865
● 4 Harriet Simril Testifies Before a Congressional Committee, South Carolina, 1871
● 5 Resolutions of the National Civil Rights Convention, 1873
● 6 The Exodusters, 1878
● 7 Black Washerwomen Demand a Living Wage, 1866 and 1881
Chapter 2 Upbuilding, 1893--1910
● 1 Ida B. Wells Speaks Out Against Lynching in the South, 1893
● 2 Booker T. Washington Speaks on Race at Atlanta, 1895
● 3 The National Association of Colored Women, 1897 and 1898
● 4 The Negro National Anthem, 1900 and 1905
● 5 Photographs from the Paris Exposition, 1900
● 6 From W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk", 1903
● 7 Black Leaders Disagree with Booker T. Washington: The Niagara Movement, 1905
● 8 Jack Johnson, 1910
Chapter 3 Migration, 1904--1919
● 1 Voices from The Independent, 1904 and 1912
● 2 Letters of Negro Migrants, 1916--1917
● 3 The East St. Louis Riot, 1917
● 4 Why African Americans Left the South, 1919
Chapter 4 Determination, 1917--1925
● 1 W. E. B. Du Bois on African Americans and World War I, 1918 and 1919
● 2 Poet Claude McKay Sets a New Tone, 1919
● 3 Emmett J. Scott Reflects on "What the Negro Got Out of the War," 1919
● 4 Program of the NAACP, 1919
● 5 Marcus Garvey Outlines the Rights of Black Peoples, 1920
● 6 Cyril V. Briggs Merges Race Consciousness with Class Consciousness, 1922
● 7 Langston Hughes on Being Black in America, 1925
● 8 Amy Jacques Garvey Calls on Women to Lead, 1925
Chapter 5 Resistance, 1927--1939
● 1 The Scottsboro Boys Write to the Workers of the World, 1932
● 2 Angelo Herndon Joins the Communist Party, 1934
● 3 Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke Report on "The Bronx Slave Market," 1935
● 4 Richard Wright Observes a Black Response to Joe Louis' Victory, 1935
● 5 The Southern Negro Youth Congress on Freedom, Equality, and Opportunity, 1937
● 6 The Coordinating Committee for Employment, New York, 1938
● 7 Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939
Chapter 6 Resolve, 1941--1952
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● 1 The March on Washington Movement, 1941
● 2 The "Double V" Campaign, 1942
● 3 A Black Army Chaplain Protests the Treatment of Black Soldiers, 1944
● 4 Pauli Murray on Student Protests in Washington, DC, 1944
● 5 The Civil Rights Congress Charges the US with Genocide, 1951
● 6 African Americans Petition the President and the American Delegation to the United Nations, 1952
Chapter 7 Discontent, 1953--1959
● 1 Thurgood Marshall Reargues Brown v. Board of Education, 1953
● 2 The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
● 3 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes on Non-Violence, 1957
● 4 Robert F. Williams Advocates Armed Self-Defense, 1959
Chapter 8 Revolt, 1960--1963
● 1 Young Activists Form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960
● 2 Ella Baker Reports on the Founding of SNCC, 1960
● 3 Robert Moses Writes from Jail in Magnolia, Mississippi, 1961
● 4 The Freedom Rides, 1961
● 5 Diane Nash Recalls the Early Student Movement, 1960--1961
● 6 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes a Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
● 7 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
Chapter 9 Power, 1964--1966
● 1 Malcolm X Reflects on the Approaches African Americans Must Use, 1964
● 2 Fannie Lou Hamer Testifies on Behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
● 3 Bayard Rustin Considers the Future of the Movement, 1965
● 4 Stokely Carmichael Explains Black Power, 1966
Chapter 10 Revolution, 1966--1977
● 1 The Black Panther Party Articulates a Platform, 1966
● 2 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opposes the War in Vietnam, 1967
● 3 The Poor People's Campaign, 1968
● 4 The Black Panther Party Convenes a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, 1970
● 5 Gil Scott-Heron Warns: "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," 1971
● 6 The Combahee River Collective Statement Explains Black Feminism, 1977
Chapter 11 Crosscurrents, 1982--2001
● 1 Activists Call for Americans to Break Ties with South Africa, 1980
● 2 Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States, 1987
● 3 Jesse Jackson Rouses the Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, GA, July 19, 1988
● 4 African American Women in Defense of Ourselves, 1991
● 5 Maxine Waters Explains the Causes of Urban Crises to Congress, 1992
● 6 The Million Man March, 1995
● 7 Angela Davis Describes the Prison Industrial Complex, 1995
● 8 The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, 2001
Chapter 12 Paradox, 2005--Present
● 1 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Addresses His City on Martin Luther King Day, 2006
● 2 Barack Obama Believes in "A More Perfect Union," 2008
● 3 Julian Bond Reflects on Race and History in America, 2011
Index

● "African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877." Ed. Stephen Mintz. 4th ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xiv+241 pp.

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